What's the difference between fadge and fudge?

Fadge


Definition:

  • (a.) To fit; to suit; to agree.
  • (n.) A small flat loaf or thick cake; also, a fagot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They are part of a family of Irish potato breads and pancakes which include boxty, potato fadge and stampy.

Fudge


Definition:

  • (n.) A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.
  • (v. t.) To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate.
  • (v. t.) To foist; to interpolate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is a tangled web between Salazar, Nike, Farah and the Nike Oregon Project on one hand, and the British Athletics performance director, Neil Black, and head of endurance, Barry Fudge, on the other.
  • (2) The current law, in which assisting someone to die is illegal but relatives are unlikely to be prosecuted, is agreed by all sides to be a fudge, a tough law with a kind heart.
  • (3) 11.38am BST Lord McColl of Dulwich refutes the suggestion that the current law is a fudge, stating that it is in fact clear.
  • (4) What Donald Trump did was address [voters] at a very different level, an emotional level, a racial level, a fear level, an anger level,” Fudge, a recent chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, said at a roundtable with reporters on Thursday.
  • (5) While all my other questions have been answered, albeit halfheartedly, this one was not fudged or spun or mangled, but simply ignored.
  • (6) A classic fudge, which lets the prison service off the hook.
  • (7) The IMF is not going to swallow this classic piece of Brussels fudge.
  • (8) Matt Zarb-Cousin of CFFG told the Guardian that the measures were a fudge.
  • (9) Lucky Richard was assigned to Poke ’s most affable hosts, the restaurant critic Tracey MacLeod and her colleague, the rapper LL Cool J , who plied him with fudge and polystyrene all day, while I was understandably ignored by my master, a capable young comic newspaper columnist called Michael Andrew Gove.
  • (10) Witness the decades of clientelist Greek politics of left and right, the notoriously poor tax collection, and the fudging of statistics when the country joined the euro in 2001.
  • (11) Lyons inherited a difficult job as the first person to head an institution many insisted was a fudge to begin with, and that has never won widespread political support.
  • (12) Instead, Jil Matheson, who glories in the title of "national statistician", opted for a careful political fudge in which she announced that the RPI was a poor representation of prices and no longer meets international standards – but caved in to lobbyists' demands to keep publishing it anyway.
  • (13) And on those occasions when the chefs can’t cook up a compromise, the EU has a knack for defusing a crisis by “kicking the can down the road” or some other variant of delaying a day of reckoning or fudging a fundamental problem.
  • (14) Fear of being hounded by social services means some women fudge their decision to freebirth by booking a home delivery and then leaving it too late before calling the midwife; their babies' arrivals are recorded as BBA, or "born before [the midwife's] arrival".
  • (15) He is a divisive figure and it is more than an inconvenient truth that can be fudged.” There is some sign that a version of this message conveyed by European officials is getting through to Washington.
  • (16) As the UK Athletics chief executive, Niels de Vos, explained: “Neil and our head of endurance, Barry Fudge, have the utmost confidence in Alberto.
  • (17) Campaigners said they would welcome a firm deadline for CCS by the early 2020s, however a more flexible life-time emissions cap for plants was rejected as "fudge".
  • (18) Foreign affairs analysts predict that Hollande is not looking for an international bust-up when he meets Obama and some fudge may be worked out that would see a French troop withdrawal begin before the end of the year, two years earlier than US troops, but be phased over a longer period or French troops withdrawing from combat roles to purely training.
  • (19) Ben and Jerry’s co-founder announced the Food Fight Fudge flavour in support of Measure 92 in Oregon Photograph: Benjerry To understand the fight over Measure 92 better, we talked to Ivan Maluski, who runs a family-owned farm in Linn County, Oregon.
  • (20) The climate scientists at the centre of a media storm were today cleared of accusations that they fudged their results and silenced critics to bolster the case for man-made global warming.