fudgy

English

Alternative forms

• fudgey

Etymology

fudge +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌdʒi

Adjective

fudgy (comparative fudgier, superlative fudgiest)

1. Resembling fudge, as in flavor or texture.
   • 2007 April 18, Melissa Clark, “Silky, Sweet and Tart, a Triple Threat”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     FOR cooks of a lemon-loving persuasion, a puckery citrus curd is the culinary analogue of a chocolate fanatic’s fudgy ganache.

   • 1997, Lorrie Moore, People Like That Are the Only People Here:

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

2. (figuratively) Fuzzy, imprecise.
   • 1993, Steven J. Wagner, Richard Wagner, Naturalism: A Critical Appraisal, page 72:

     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. (archaic) Irritable.
4. (archaic) Awkward.