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fudgenoun language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good senseI was starting to realize that Grandpa's tales about when he was a boy were a lot of fudge applesauce(slang), balderdash, baloney(also boloney), beans, bilge, blah(also blah-blah), blarney, blather, blatherskite, blither, bosh, bull(slang), bunk, bunkum(or buncombe), claptrap, codswallop(British), crapola(slang), crock, drivel, drool, fiddle, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flannel(British), flapdoodle, folderol(also falderal), folly, foolishness, garbage, guff, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hoodoo, hooey, horsefeathers(slang), humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey(also malarky), moonshine, muck, nerts(slang), nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, slush, stupidity, taradiddle(or tarradiddle), tommyrot, tosh, trash, trumpery, twaddle absurdity, asininity, fatuity, foolery, idiocy, imbecility, inaneness, inanity, insanity, kookiness, lunacyabsurdness, craziness, madness, witlessnesshoity-toity, monkey business, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolerygas, hot air, rigmarole(also rigamarole)double-talk, greek, hocus-pocus levelheadedness, rationality, reasonability, reasonableness, sensiblenesscommon sense, horse sense, sensediscernment, judgment(or judgement), wisdom fudgeverbto avoid giving a definite answer or positionthe candidate was criticized for fudging on most of the questions during the debate equivocate, hedge, pussyfoot, tergiversate, waffle, weasel flip-flop, yo-yododge, duck, elude, eschew, evade, shake, shirk, shun, sidestep, skirtbypass, circumventcavil, quibblestraddle beat around the bush(or beat about the bush), hem and haw, straddle the fence to use dishonest methods to achieve a goalshe's been fudging on her taxes for years cheat, chicane, finagle cribcolor, distort, falsify, misinterpret, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, twist, warpdoctor, fake, tamper (with)elaborate, embellish, embroider, exaggerate, magnify, pad, stretchdodge, evade, hedge to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning offudged the facts about his educational background so he could get the position bend, color, cook, distort, falsify, garble, misinterpret, misrelate, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, slant, twist, warp misdescribe, misspeak, mistranslatebelie, camouflage, disguise, dissemble, gloss (over), mask, veil, whitewashbowdlerize, censorcomplicate, confound, confuse, mistake, mix (up)mystify, obscureequivocate, fib, lie, palter, prevaricate clarify, clear (up), explain, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, spell outdecipher in 1674 |