Synonyms for fudge
- noun
- verb
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Balderdash — A made-up story
apple sauce, balderdash, non-sense, twaddle, stuff and nonsense, double talk, baloney US AU, humbug, bull, hocus-pocus, hogwash, clap-trap, mumbo-jumbo, palaver, poppycock informal, garble, drivel, rubbish UK, moon-shine, gobbledygook informal US, gobbledegook UK, jargon, blather
Verb
2. Fake
3. Waffle — to try to avoid giving a direct answer
4. Cheat — to cheat, especially in the game of marbles
Definitions
- n. 1
A made-up story.
- v. 1
To try to avoid giving a direct answer.
When I asked them if they had been at the party, they fudged.
- v. 2
To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.
- v. 3
To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty, deliberately but not necessarily dishonestly or immorally.
I had to fudge the lighting to get the color to look good.
Related words
- Word family
- fudgebag
- Phrases
- fudge factor like fudge fudge together
Example sentences
- chocolate The more chocolate you eat, the fatter you'll get.
- tinker I've always found Tinker Bell very sexy.
By length
- 4 letters
- fake1, cook1, bull1, duck1
- 5 letters
- cheat1, skirt1, dodge1, hedge1, evade2, parry2, elude2
- 6 letters
- tinker2, waffle2, jargon2, juggle2, drivel2, humbug2, wangle2, garble2
- 7 letters
- massage2, rubbish2, baloney3, falsify3, hogwash2, palaver, blather2, twaddle2
- 8 letters
- sidestep2
- 9 letters
- chocolate2, poppycock3
- 10 letters
- manipulate4, circumvent3, balderdash3, equivocate4
- 11 letters
- counterfeit3
- 12 letters
- misrepresent4, gobbledygook4, gobbledegook
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (evade2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- balivernes