Fiddle vs. Fudge — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Fiddle and Fudge
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Definitions
Fiddle
A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres including classical music.
Fudge
Fudge is a type of sugar candy that is made by mixing sugar, butter and milk, heating it to the soft-ball stage at 240 °F (116 °C), and then beating the mixture while it cools so that it acquires a smooth, creamy consistency. In texture, this crystalline candy falls in between fondant icing and hard caramels.Fruits, nuts, chocolate, caramel, candies, sweets and other flavors are sometimes added either inside or on top.
Fiddle
A violin, especially one used to play folk or country music.
Fudge
A soft rich candy made of sugar, milk, butter, and chocolate or cocoa.
Fiddle
(Nautical) A guardrail used on a table during rough weather to prevent things from slipping off.
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Fudge
A similar candy made with other flavorings
Peanut butter fudge.
Fiddle
(Informal) Nonsensical, trifling matters
"There are things that are important / beyond all this fiddle" (Marianne Moore).
Fudge
Nonsense; humbug.
Fiddle
Chiefly British An instance of cheating or swindling; a fraud.
Fudge
Having a rich chocolate flavor.
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Fiddle
To play a fiddle.
Fudge
Having pieces of fudge candy as an ingredient.
Fiddle
To touch or handle something in a nervous way
Fiddled with the collar of his shirt as he spoke.
Fudge
To fake or falsify
Fudge casualty figures.
Fiddle
To make unskilled efforts at repairing or improving
Fiddled with the broken toaster.
Fudge
To evade (an issue, for example); dodge.
Fiddle
To meddle or tamper
A reporter who fiddled with the facts.
Fudge
To act in an indecisive manner
Always fudged on the important questions.
Fiddle
Chiefly British To commit a fraud, especially to steal from one's employer.
Fudge
To go beyond the proper limits of something
Fudged on the building code requirements.
Fiddle
To play (a tune) on a fiddle.
Fudge
To act dishonestly; cheat.
Fiddle
Chiefly British To alter or falsify for dishonest gain
Fiddled the figures in the report.
Fudge
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!
Fiddle
Synonym of violin, a small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin and played with a bow; the position of a violinist in a band; any of various bowed stringed instruments, particularly those of the violin family when played non-classically.
When I play it like this, it's a fiddle; when I play it like that, it's a violin.
Fudge
(US) Chocolate fudge.
Fiddle
(figurative) clown: an unserious person entertaining a group.
Fudge
(uncountable) Light or frothy nonsense.
Fiddle
(figurative) Unskillful or unartful behavior, particularly when showy and superficially pleasing.
Fudge
(countable) A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
Fiddle
Synonym of scam, a fraud or swindle.
Fudge
A made-up story.
Fiddle
(slang) workaround, a quick and less than perfect solution for some flaw or problem.
That parameter setting is just a fiddle to make the lighting look right.
Fudge
(countable) A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
Fiddle
Any rail or device that prevents items from sliding off a table, stove, etc. in rough water.
Fudge
Fecal matter; feces.
Here comes the fudge!
Fiddle
Synonym of arrest warrant.
Fudge
(intransitive) To try to avoid giving a direct answer.
When I asked them if they had been at the party, they fudged.
Fiddle
Synonym of watchman's rattle.
Fudge
(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.
I had to fudge the lighting to get the color to look good.
Do you fudge your age?
Fiddle
A trifling amount.
Done at a fiddle.
Fudge
To botch or bungle something.
Fiddle
Something resembling a violin in shape, particularly:
Fudge
To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.
Fiddle
(biology) A dock (Rumex pulcher) with leaves supposed to resemble the musical instrument.
Fudge
Used in place of fuck.
Fiddle
A long pole pulled by a draft animal to drag loose straw, hay, etc.
Fudge
Nonsense; tommyrot.
Fiddle
A rack for drying pottery after glazing.
Fudge
A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; - often an exclamation of contempt.
Fiddle
To play the fiddle or violin, particularly in a folk or country style.
To fiddle while Rome burns
Fudge
A kind of soft candy composed of sugar or maple sugar, milk, and butter, and often chocolate or nuts, boiled and stirred to a proper consistency.
Fiddle
To fidget or play; to idly amuse oneself, to act aimlessly, idly, or frivolously, particularly out of nervousness or restlessness.
Stop fiddling with your food. Either tell me what's wrong or just eat.
Fudge
To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate.
Fudged up into such a smirkish liveliness.
Fiddle
(informal) To cheat or swindle; to commit fraud.
Fred was fiddling the books.
Fudge
To foist; to interpolate.
That last "suppose" is fudged in.
Fiddle
Senseid|en|sort out by tinkering}} (informal) {{synonym of tinker, to make small adjustments or improvements.
I needed to fiddle with these settings to get the image to look right.
Fudge
Soft creamy candy
Fiddle
(obsolete) fiddlesticks.
Oh, fiddle. I left my whip in the stable.
Fudge
Fake or falsify;
Fudge the figures
Cook the books
Falsify the data
Fiddle
A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.
Fudge
Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues);
He dodged the issue
She skirted the problem
They tend to evade their responsibilities
He evaded the questions skillfully
Fiddle
A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; - called also fiddle dock.
Fiddle
A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather.
Fiddle
To play on a fiddle.
Themistocles . . . said he could not fiddle, but he could make a small town a great city.
Fiddle
To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle.
Talking, and fiddling with their hats and feathers.
Fiddle
To play (a tune) on a fiddle.
Fiddle
Bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow
Fiddle
Avoid (one's assigned duties);
The derelict soldier shirked his duties
Fiddle
Commit fraud and steal from one's employer;
We found out that she had been fiddling for years
Fiddle
Play the violin or fiddle
Fiddle
Play on a violin;
Zuckerman fiddled that song very nicely
Fiddle
Manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination;
She played nervously with her wedding ring
Don't fiddle with the screws
He played with the idea of running for the Senate
Fiddle
Play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly;
Someone tampered with the documents on my desk
The reporter fiddle with the facts
Fiddle
Try to fix or mend;
Can you tinker with the T.V. set--it's not working right
She always fiddles with her van on the weekend
