dodge vs fudge

dodge

noun
  • An act of dodging. 

  • A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.) 

  • A line of work. 

adj
  • Dodgy. 

verb
  • To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place. 

  • To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way. 

  • To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn). 

  • To avoid; to sidestep. 

fudge

noun
  • A deliberately misleading or vague answer. 

  • Chocolate fudge. 

  • Light or frothy nonsense. 

  • Fecal matter; feces. 

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

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

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. 

intj
  • Used in place of fuck. 

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