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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—F

Fudge

Not true, stuff, make-up. (Gaelic, ffug, deception; Welsh, ffug, pretence; whence ffugiwr, a pretender or deceiver.) A word of contempt bestowed on one who says what is absurd or untrue. A favourite expression of Mr. Burchell in the Vicar of Wakefield.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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