Fudge vs. Fake — What's the Difference?

Fudge is a type of sugar candy that is made by mixing sugar, butter and milk, heating it to the soft-ball stage at 240 °F (116 °C), and then beating the mixture while it cools so that it acquires a smooth, creamy consistency. In texture, this crystalline candy falls in between fondant icing and hard caramels.Fruits, nuts, chocolate, caramel, candies, sweets and other flavors are sometimes added either inside or on top.

Not genuine; imitation or counterfeit

A soft rich candy made of sugar, milk, butter, and chocolate or cocoa.

A thing that is not genuine; a forgery or sham

A similar candy made with other flavorings

Variant spelling of flake

Nonsense; humbug.

Forge or counterfeit (something)

Having a rich chocolate flavor.

Variant spelling of flake

Having pieces of fudge candy as an ingredient.

Having a false or misleading appearance; fraudulent.

To fake or falsify

One that is not authentic or genuine; a sham.

To evade (an issue, for example); dodge.

(Sports) A brief feint or aborted change of direction intended to mislead one's opponent or the opposing team.

To act in an indecisive manner

One loop or winding of a coiled rope or cable.

To go beyond the proper limits of something

To contrive and present as genuine; counterfeit

To act dishonestly; cheat.

To simulate; feign

A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.

(Music) To improvise (a passage).

(US) Chocolate fudge.

(Sports) To deceive (an opponent) with a fake. Often used with out.

(uncountable) Light or frothy nonsense.

To engage in feigning, simulation, or other deceptive activity.

(countable) A deliberately misleading or vague answer.

(Sports) To perform a fake.

A made-up story.

To coil (a rope or cable).

(countable) A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.

Not real; false, fraudulent

Fecal matter; feces.

(of people) Insincere

(intransitive) To try to avoid giving a direct answer.

Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.

(transitive) To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty, deliberately but not necessarily dishonestly or immorally.

(sports) A move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage for example when dribbling an opponent.

To botch or bungle something.

(archaic) A trick; a swindle

To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.

(nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

Used in place of fuck.

(transitive) To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.

Nonsense; tommyrot.

(transitive) To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.

A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; - often an exclamation of contempt.

(archaic) To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.

A kind of soft candy composed of sugar or maple sugar, milk, and butter, and often chocolate or nuts, boiled and stirred to a proper consistency.

(archaic) To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is

To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate.

To improvise, in jazz.

To foist; to interpolate.

(nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.

Soft creamy candy

One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

Fake or falsify;

A trick; a swindle.

Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues);

To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out.

To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.

To make; to construct; to do.

To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.

Something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

A person who makes deceitful pretenses

(football) a deceptive move made by a football player

Make a copy of with the intent to deceive;

Fake or falsify;

Talk through one's hat;

Fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

Not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article;