| NOUN | food | fudge | soft creamy candy |
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| VERB | social | fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent | tamper, with the purpose of deception |
| communication | fudge, hedge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep | avoid / avoid or try to avoid / avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) |
| Sounds | fah'jh | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | acreage ... wreckage: 85 rhymes with ahjh... | |
| Meaning | Soft creamy candy. | |
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| Narrower | chocolate fudge | fudge made with chocolate or cocoa |
| divinity, divinity fudge | white creamy fudge made with egg whites | |
| penuche, penoche, panoche, panocha | fudge made with brown ... / brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts | |
| Broader | candy, confect | A rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts |
| Meaning | Tamper, with the purpose of deception. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "Fudge the figures" | |
| Synonyms | manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent | |
| Narrower | juggle | manipulate by or as if by moving around components |
| Broader | cheat, chisel | Engage in deceitful behavior |
| Meaning | avoid / avoid or try to avoid / avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues). | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | hedge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep | |
| Narrower | beg | Dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted |
| quibble | Evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections | |
| Broader | avoid | Stay clear from |
| Catalan | defugir, esquivar, evadir, evitar | |