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Candy vs Fudge - What's the difference?

candy | fudge |

As nouns the difference between candy and fudge

is that candy is (uncountable|chiefly|us) edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors or candy can be (obsolete) a unit of mass used in southern india, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally while fudge is light or frothy nonsense.

As verbs the difference between candy and fudge

is that candy is (cooking) to cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup while fudge is to try to avoid giving a direct answer; to waffle or equivocate.

As a interjection fudge is

(euphemistic) colloquially, used in place of fuck.

candy

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) sucre candi ("candy sugar"), from (etyl) .

Noun

  • (uncountable, chiefly, US) Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
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  • (countable, chiefly, US) A piece of confectionery of this kind.
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    • Synonyms
    * (confection) confectionery, sweets (British), lollies (Australia), sugar candy (US) * (piece of candy) sweet (British), lolly (Australia)
    Derived terms
    * arm candy * bee candy * brain candy * candy ass * candy cane * candy floss * candy man * candy store * candy stripe * candy striper * cotton candy * ear candy * eye candy * hard candy * like taking candy from a baby * nose candy * rock candy * sugar candy

    Verb

  • (cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
  • To have sugar crystals form in or on.
    • Fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.
  • To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * candee

    Noun

    (candy)
  • (obsolete) a unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.
    • Synonyms
    * maunee

    Anagrams

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    fudge

    English

    (wikipedia fudge)

    Noun

  • Light or frothy nonsense.
  • A type of very sweet candy or confection. Often used in the US synonymously with chocolate fudge.
    • Have you tried the vanilla fudge ? It's delicious!
  • (countable) A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
  • (uncountable, dated) A made-up story; nonsense; humbug.
  • (countable) A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.

    • Verb

    (fudg)
  • To try to avoid giving a direct answer; to waffle or equivocate.
    • When I asked them if they had been at the party, they fudged .
  • To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty. Always deliberate, but not necessarily dishonest or immoral.
    • The results of the experiment looked impressive, but it turned out the numbers had been fudged .
    I had to fudge the lighting to get the color to look good.

    Derived terms

    * fudger

    Interjection

    (head)
  • (euphemistic) Colloquially, used in place of fuck.
    • Oh, fudge !

    Derived terms

    * fudge factor * fudge packer