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Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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fudge

/fʌd͡ʒ/ noun, verb, interjection, proper noun

Forms fudges fudging fudged

  1. noun (chiefly uncountable) A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream. “Have you tried the vanilla fudge? It's delicious!”
  2. noun (US) Chocolate fudge.
  3. noun (uncountable) Light or frothy nonsense.
  4. noun (countable) A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
  5. noun (uncountable, dated) A made-up story.
  6. noun (archaic, journalism, slang) The stop press portion of a newspaper.
  7. noun (countable) A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
  8. noun (euphemistic, slang) Fecal matter; feces. “Here comes the fudge!”
  9. verb (intransitive) To try to avoid giving a direct answer. “When I asked them if they had been at the party, they fudged.”
  10. verb (transitive) To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty, deliberately but not necessarily dishonestly or immorally. “The results of the experiment looked impressive, but it turned out the numbers had been fudged.”
  11. verb (dated, ambitransitive) To botch or bungle something.
  12. verb To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.
  13. verb (colloquial, minced oath) Used in place of fuck.
  14. interjection (colloquial, archaic) Nonsense; tommyrot.
  15. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

nonsense humbug absurdity all my eye all my eye and Betty Martin apple grease applesauce bafflegab balderdash balls baloney banana oil Bandini baragouin batcrap batshit bilgewater blah blah-blah blah-blah-blah manipulate fake falsify cook wangle misrepresent hedge evade put off circumvent

Etymology

Probably a variant of fadge (“to fit”), the confectionery sense having evolved from the meaning of “merging together” or “turning out as expected”.

From the Middle English surname, diminutive of Fulcher.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; --often an exclamation of contempt.
  2. verb To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate.
  3. verb To foist; to interpolate.

Etymology [Cf. Prov. F. fuche, feuche, an interj. of contempt.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “fudge”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details