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fudgy

adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈfʌdʒi/

adj

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.

  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.

    She twice let the Baby’s ears get fudgy with wax.

  2. 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.

  3. Irritable.
  4. Awkward.