fudge

• n. ごまかし；でたらめ；うそ
• vt.でっち上げる；ごまかす；言い逃れる；言い逃れる
• 責任を逃れる；欺く；難読化する
• int！
• n. （ファッジ）人の名前；（英）ファッジ

語源は不明。17世紀に実在したキャプテン?ファッジ（Captain Fudge）に由来する可能性がある。ファッジは海に出るといつもウソの資料を持ち帰り、上司や同僚からの質問をかわしていた。また、ファッジの一種を指す言葉としても使われた。

fudge

fudge: [17] Fudge the verb, ‘evade’, probably comes from an earlier fadge, which meant ‘fake, deceive’, and hence ‘adjust, fit’, and this in turn probably goes back to a Middle English noun fage ‘deceit’ – but where fage came from is not clear. Fudge as the name of a type of toffee, which is first recorded in the late 19th century, may be a different use of the same word – perhaps originally ‘toffee “cooked up” or “bodged up” in an impromptu manner’.

fudge (n.2)

"nonsense, rubbish," (1791), earlier and more usually as a contemptuous interjection, "lies! nonsense!" Probably a natural extension from fudge (v.) "put together clumsily or dishonestly," q.v. But Farmer suggests provincial French fuche, feuche, "an exclamation of contempt from Low German futsch = begone."

fudge (v.)

"put together clumsily or dishonestly," by 1771 (perhaps from 17c.); perhaps an alteration of fadge "make suit, fit" (1570s), a verb of unknown origin. The verb fudge later had an especial association with sailors and log books. The traditional story of the origin of the interjection fudge "lies! nonsense!" (1766; see fudge (n.2)) traces it to a sailor's retort to anything considered lies or nonsense, from Captain Fudge, "who always brought home his owners a good cargo of lies" [Isaac Disraeli, 1791, citing a pamphlet from 1700]. It seems there really was a late 17c. Captain Fudge, called "Lying Fudge," and perhaps his name reinforced this form of fadge in the sense of "contrive without the necessary materials." The surname is from Fuche, a pet form of the masc. proper name Fulcher, from Germanic and meaning literally "people-army."

fudge (n.1)

type of confection, 1895, American English, apparently a word first used among students at women's colleges; perhaps a special use from fudge (v.) or its noun derivative, via the notion of "insubstantial" or of something "faked-up" on the spot. The verb was used in school slang, and compare fudge (n.) "a made-up story" (1797).

'He lies,' answered Lord Etherington, 'so far as he pretends I know of such papers. I consider the whole story as froth -- foam, fudge, or whatever is most unsubstantial. ...' [Scott, "St. Ronan's Well," 1823]

1. This solution is a fudge rushed in to win cheers at the party conference.

このソリューションは、党の会議の称賛を得るために急いで作られた表面的な文章である。

2.I 've got a good recipe for fudge .

私にはクリームグミを作る良い方法があります。

3.Oh fudge ，she says they can 't come.

ああ、でたらめを言って、彼女は彼らが来てはいけないと言った。

4.I want you to take Mrs.GIoop up to the Fudge Room、okay？

グルプさんをグミ職場に連れて行ってもらいたいのですが、よろしいでしょうか。

5.Cancer knits sweaters and makes fudge for the neighborhood.

かに座は隣人のためにセーターを編んだり、手作りチョコレートを作ったりします。