To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate; as, he never did the experiment, and merely fudged the data
An American invention, it was created in the mid 1800s in the Eastern womens colleges of Vassar, and Wellesly The first printed record of fudge came in 1896 with Opera Fudge (Bordeaux) Fudge became popular at Eastern women's colleges around the turn of The name may have come from when students "fudged" by making the confection when they were supposed to be in bed
soft creamy candy fake or falsify; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data
avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
If you fudge something, you avoid making a clear and definite decision, distinction, or statement about it. Both have fudged their calculations and avoided specifics
Not true, stuff, make-up (Gaelic, ffug, deception; Welsh, ffug, pretence; whence ffugiwr, a pretender or deceiver ) A word of contempt bestowed on one who says what is absurd or untrue A favourite expression of Mr Burchell in the Vicar of Wakefield