confectionary vs fudge

confectionary

noun
  • A candy, sweetmeat; a confection. 

  • Candy, sweets, taken collectively; confectionery. 

adj
  • Relating to, or of the nature of confections or their production. 

  • Prepared as a confection. 

fudge

noun
  • A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream. 

  • Chocolate fudge. 

  • Light or frothy nonsense. 

  • Fecal matter; feces. 

  • A deliberately misleading or vague answer. 

  • A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact. 

intj
  • Used in place of fuck. 

verb
  • To try to avoid giving a direct answer. 

  • To cheat, especially in the game of marbles. 

  • To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty, deliberately but not necessarily dishonestly or immorally. 

How often have the words confectionary and fudge occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )