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Fudge vs Fake - What's the difference?

fudge | fake |

As nouns the difference between fudge and fake

is that fudge is light or frothy nonsense while fake is something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently or fake can be (nautical) one of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

As verbs the difference between fudge and fake

is that fudge is to try to avoid giving a direct answer; to waffle or equivocate while fake is to cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob or fake can be (nautical) to coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.

As an interjection fudge

is (euphemistic) colloquially, used in place of fuck.

As an adjective fake is

not real; false, fraudulent.

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

    fake

    English

    Etymology 1

    (wikipedia fake) The origin is not known with certainty, although first attested in 1775

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Not real; false, fraudulent.
    • Which fur coat looks fake ?
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Antonyms
    * genuine

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
  • A trick; a swindle.
  • (soccer) Move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage when dribbling an opponent.
    • Synonyms
    * (soccer move) feint, (ice hokey move) deke

    Verb

    (fak)
  • To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
  • To make; to construct; to do. (rfexample)
  • To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.
  • To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
  • To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
    • Synonyms
    * (To modify fraudulently) adulterate * (To make a false display) pass off, pose
    Derived terms
    * fake out * faker

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), to coil a rope .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

    • Verb

    (fak)
  • (nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.