Contents
- 1 English
- 1.1 Alternative forms
- 1.2 Etymology
- 1.3 Pronunciation
- 1.4 Adjective
English
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Etymology
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Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ʌdʒi
Adjective
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fudgy (comparative fudgier, superlative fudgiest)
- Resembling fudge, as in flavor or texture.
2007 April 18, Melissa Clark, “Silky, Sweet and Tart, a Triple Threat”, in New York Times[1]:
FOR cooks of a lemon-loving persuasion, a puckery citrus curd is the culinary analogue of a chocolate fanatic’s fudgy ganache.
1997, Lorrie Moore, People Like That Are the Only People Here:
She twice let the Baby’s ears get fudgy with wax.
- (figuratively) Fuzzy, imprecise.
1993, Steven J. Wagner, Richard Wagner, Naturalism: A Critical Appraisal, page 72:
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.
- (archaic) Irritable.
- (archaic) Awkward.
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