Fudge vs Fudgy - What's the difference?

As a noun fudge

is light or frothy nonsense.

is to try to avoid giving a direct answer; to waffle or equivocate.

is colloquially, used in place of fuck.

resembling fudge, especially in flavor.

(wikipedia fudge)

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.

(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.

* fudger

(head)

(euphemistic) Colloquially, used in place of fuck.

Oh, fudge !

* fudge factor * fudge packer

(er)

Resembling fudge, especially in flavor

* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 18, author=Melissa Clark, title=Silky, Sweet and Tart, a Triple Threat, work=New York Times citation

, passage=FOR cooks of a lemon-loving persuasion, a puckery citrus curd is the culinary analogue of a chocolate fanatic’s fudgy ganache. }}

* (Lorrie Moore), People Like That Are the Only People Here

She twice let the Baby’s ears get fudgy with wax.

(figuratively) fuzzy, imprecise