(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.
Toffee
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Toffy
Example Sentences:
(1) Quality Street toffee penny yellow is the new pink Breaking news!
(2) Recently awarded best veggie blog by Vegetarian Living, her stuffed naan breads and toffee apple and peanut pudding are definitely on the to-eat list.
(3) 3.16pm BST Toffee-related advertisement break: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 3.12pm BST You'll notice this blog hasn't shut down yet.
(4) The colour to channel for next season is, in fact, not matt buttercup yellow but the gold-foil sheen best explained as the colour of the toffee penny in a box of Quality Street.
(5) Chocolate stout pudding (above) Admittedly, with summer creeping in and temperatures rising, it's hardly pudding season.But I'm a firm believer in the restorative powers of stodge, and I'd hate for the pleasures of pudding – steamed sponges, sticky toffee, spotted dick and custard – to be out of bounds for part of the year.
(6) The Glazers must've expected that they were getting a wee, ginger, fledgling Ferguson; David Moyes surely imagined that the great day had come after years of stability and prudence at Goodison Park, frugally guarding the Toffees, he was finally to be given the reigns of the all-conquering devils.
(7) The remaining Covent Garden branch will continue to offer a range of "proud British flavours", including fish and chips with mushy peas at £14.95; pork belly, banger and mash for £14.50, and sticky toffee pudding with clotted cream at £6.
(8) • Meals from £6, Stockholmfoodtrucks.nu , or download the Streetkäk app Pärlans Konfektyr Watch the founders of this sweet shop in the trendy area of Sofo (South of Folkunggatan) on Södermalm making artisanal toffee and fudge.
(9) The 21-year-old’s fortunes on the pitch have mirrored that of his team as neither have been able to reproduce the standards of last season, when a fine campaign saw the Toffees finish fifth after being in contention for the Champions League for a long period.
(10) Oscar Marsh, aged 10, already has plans for the panda toy he has just been bought from the gift shop at Edinburgh zoo, which is filled with row after row of pandas in tartan skirts, panda toffees, panda-shaped shortbread tins, panda hats and earmuffs.
(11) I can’t sing for toffee, but one of my clients is a nervous, self-conscious lady and I discovered one day that she relaxes more if I sing to her while getting her washed and dressed.
(12) Tarashaj is understood to have coughed for the Everton doctors and agreed personal terms on a four-and-a-half year deal with Goodison Park suits, but will be loaned back to his current club for the rest of the season just as soon as he’s inked a contract with the Toffees.
(13) Having been pelted with toffees and then accused of killing South Korean football, manager Hong Myung-bo has decided now is the time to see himself out of the door marked ‘Do one’.
(14) There were so many retakes of the Supercalifragilistic scene that we got sick of the toffee apples we were supposed to be eating.
(15) Algeria have taken the opposite tack to South Korea's toffee pelters , the press lauding Les Verts as heroes and shuffling together a petition to persuade Vahid Halilhodzic to stay on as coach, as Rob Bleaney reports : The Algerian coach is set to leave his position after the tournament, having endured a long-running battle with some sections of the media.
(16) With its rich, bready, almost toffee-ish body and lemony, zesty top notes, it is a lager that even the most militant ale drinker would admit is a superb beer.
(17) Measurements were made of oral stereognosis, tongue-tip manipulation skill, control of tongue protrusion, and the time taken to chew and swallow a standardized piece of toffee and to clear it from the mouth.
(18) In Korea, you see, telling someone to "eat toffee" is considered a terrible insult.
(19) OK, he's writing a breaking World Cup story about toffee.
(20) 4.57pm BST Full-time Everton 0-0 West Brom Another draw for the Toffees.