Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🍬 A sweet candy 🤥 To cheat or lie 🤔 To avoid directly
fudge

fudge

92 1.0
A soft sweet candy made from sugar and butter
  • noun
  • /fʌdʒ/
translation icon : fudge
  • At the fair, I couldn't resist trying the homemade fudge, which was rich and creamy.
  • fudge brownies

This is kind of like a a fudge, a creamy, flaky fudge.

Autoplay Next

Examples

  • Do you want caramel or fudge?

    Ezra (2024)

  • I had myself a chocolate fudge cake and some frozen yogurt.

  • Make sure you stop at the fudge store for a delicious treat!

    Academic text (1999)

  • Matcha green tea fudge. We might have to come back here.

  • Order a hot fudge sundae from room service and watch the Late Late Show.

  • Big Red offers a piece of homemade fudge and shows no surprise when Sissy refuses it.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Frosted chocolate fudge pop tart sounds very good.

  • I'll just have a plain chocolate fudge sundae with strawberry ice cream.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Some students chose caramel, toast, hot fudge, coffee, or brownies.

    Academic text (2014)

  • As the girl licks a spoon of fudge, she sees Francesca looking at her and smiles back.

    Fiction book (1995)

Synonyms

candy
vsfudge
  • US
863 1.0

A small sweet made from sugar, often with chocolate or nuts

is a specific sweet made with butter and milk and often chocolate
confection
vsfudge
8 3.7

Sweet food like candy or a small cake

is a particular butter and milk based sweet rather than any rich sugar food
fud
vsfudge
9.9

A soft sweet spread used on cakes and desserts

is a firmer sweet made with butter and milk for eating, not spreading

Compounds

chocolate fudge
4 1.0

A soft, rich, sweet candy made from chocolate, sugar, and butter

fudge factor
  • Specialized
2 7.6

A small extra amount added to a calculation to allow for uncertainty

fudge packer
  • Slur
2 9.9

An offensive slang word people use to insult a gay man or someone who avoids hard choices

fudge sauce
1 1.0

A thick chocolate sauce served hot over desserts like ice cream

hot-fudge sauce
  • US
1 1.2

Thick hot chocolate that you pour over ice cream

divinity fudge
  • US
8.2

A light white fluffy candy made from whipped egg whites and sugar with nuts or vanilla

How Sweet

fudge
92 1.0
toffee
15 1.9
caramel
29 1.1

Surface Forms

fudge singular
fudges plural

Etymology

Fudge for the soft sweet probably comes from an old American use meaning 'to make roughly' or 'to make up', because the candy is a soft, mixed mass that you can press and shape by hand. So think of fudge as a soft, hand-made treat.