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Fudge vs Marshmallow - What's the difference?

fudge | marshmallow |

As nouns the difference between fudge and marshmallow

is that fudge is light or frothy nonsense while marshmallow is marshmallow (confectionery).

As a verb fudge

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

As an interjection fudge

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

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

    marshmallow

    English

    Alternative forms

    * marsh mallow

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A species of mallow,
  • * 1653 , (Nicholas Culpeper), The English Physician Enlarged , Folio Society 2007, p. 180:
    • Our common Marsh Mallows have diverse soft, hoary white stalks rising to be three or four foot high, spreading forth many branches.
  • A type of confectionery consisting of sugar or corn syrup, beaten egg whites, gelatin that has been pre-softened in water, gum arabic and flavorings, whipped to a spongy consistency.
  • * (rfdate) Love, Life and Work :
    • The Disagreeable Girl is a female of the genus homo persuasion, built around a digestive apparatus that possesses marked marshmallow proclivities.
  • * (rfdate) PH Wodehouse, A Wodehouse Miscellany :
    • It was an apple marshmallow sundae, I recollect. I dug my spoon into it with an assumption of gaiety which I was far from feeling.
  • (figuratively) Someone who is soft and benign.
    • He acts like a total badass, but he's really just a marshmallow once you get to know him.