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Fidge vs Fudge - What's the difference?

fidge | fudge |

As verbs the difference between fidge and fudge

is that fidge is (obsolete|dialectal|scotland) to fidget; jostle or shake while fudge is to try to avoid giving a direct answer; to waffle or equivocate.

As nouns the difference between fidge and fudge

is that fidge is (obsolete|dialectal|scotland) a shake; fiddle or similar agitation while fudge is light or frothy nonsense.

As an interjection fudge is

(euphemistic) colloquially, used in place of fuck.

fidge

English

Verb

  • (obsolete, dialectal, Scotland) To fidget; jostle or shake.
  • *1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
  • "Look, Jim, how my fingers fidges ," he continued in the pleading tone. "I can't keep 'em still, not I. I haven't had a drop this blessed day. That doctor's a fool, I tell you. If I don't have a dram o' rum, Jim, I'll have the horrors..."

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, dialectal, Scotland) A shake; fiddle or similar agitation.
  • 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