I. noun
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Chocolate and chocolate sauces, toffees, fudge , butterscotch, carob chocolate.
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Elizabeth: Vanilla ice cream made from the thickest cream, and hot chocolate fudge .
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He made a fudge of one of her feet.
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Innumerable kings lie tucked away here under these jagged tablets of black fudge .
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These suggestions appeal to higher level knowledge or suggest a fudge which would severely limit the scope of the system.
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Won't you have a piece of fudge ?
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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issue
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He tried to fudge the issue earlier by saying that he did not want to specify periods.
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The ponchos permit the sculptor an extra piece of authenticity by fudging the issue of equipment.
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With Thornton's final refusal the comrades could not fudge the Chair issue any longer.
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Even more surprising is Glenny's attempt to fudge the fundamental issues of the Balkan conflict.
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Tom admitted to fudging the numbers to stay ahead of the competition.
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As to the issue of future political fudging, the commission would require a supermajority to reverse any lowering of rates.
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But then other member states will say: if you can fudge it for them why not for us?
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If they do not, the criteria will have to be fudged or the implementation of Emu postponed.
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Some people were of the opinion that every time he fluttered his eyes he was fudging on the truth.
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They fudge and live with contradictions.