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fudgy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈfʌdʒi/

Etymology

Etymology tree English fudge Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English fudgy From fudge + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling fudge, as in flavor or texture.
   • FOR cooks of a lemon-loving persuasion, a puckery citrus curd is the culinary analogue of a chocolate fanatic’s fudgy ganache. 2007 April 18, Melissa Clark, “Silky, Sweet and Tart, a Triple Threat”, in New York Times:
   • She twice let the Baby’s ears get fudgy with wax. 1997, Lorrie Moore, People Like That Are the Only People Here:
2. (figuratively) Fuzzy, imprecise.
   • The hundred years after Euler represented a period in which functions not satisfying his "official" constraints were frequently smuggled into mathematics through fudgy considerations involving infinite series expansions and the like. 1993, Steven J. Wagner, Richard Wagner, Naturalism: A Critical Appraisal, page 72:
3. (archaic) Irritable.
4. (archaic) Awkward.

Forms

Deriveds

fudginess · fudgily