Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream. · Chocolate fudge. · Light or frothy nonsense. · A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
Used in place of fuck. · Nonsense; tommyrot.
To try to avoid giving a direct answer. · To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty, deliberately but not necessarily dishonestly or immorally. · To botch or bungle something. · To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.
Probably a variant of fadge (“to fit”), the confectionery sense having evolved from the meaning of “merging together” or “turning out as expected”.
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