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Palter vs Fudge - What's the difference?

palter | fudge |

As verbs the difference between palter and fudge

is that palter is to talk insincerely; to prevaricate or equivocate in speech or actions while fudge is to try to avoid giving a direct answer; to waffle or equivocate.

As a noun fudge is

light or frothy nonsense.

As an interjection fudge is

colloquially, used in place of fuck.

palter

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To talk insincerely; to prevaricate or equivocate in speech or actions.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Romans, that have spoke the word, / And will not palter .
  • * Tennyson
    • Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, / Nor paltered with eternal God for power.
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  • * 2010 , Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles
    • I would prevaricate and palter in my usual plausible way, but, this being Cambridge, such stratagems would cut no ice with my remorseless and (in my imagination) gleefully malicious interrogator, who would stare at me with gimlet eyes and say in a harsh voice that crackled with mocking laughter: ‘Excuse me, but do you even know who Lermontov is ?’
  • To trifle.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • Palter out your time in the penal statutes.
  • *1886 , , The Princess Casamassima .
  • *:He waited and waited, in the faith that Schinkel was dealing with them in his slow, categorical Teutonic way, and only objurgated the cabinetmaker for having in the first place paltered with his sacred trust. Why hadn't he come straight to him—whatever the mysterious document was—instead of talking it over with French featherheads?
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 100
    • Don't palter with the second rate.
  • To haggle.
    • (Cotgrave)
  • To babble; to chatter.

    • Derived terms

    * palterer

    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