FRUMP, to mock, or insult.—_Beaumont and Fletcher._

FUDGE, nonsense, stupidity. _Todd and Richardson_ only trace the word

to _Goldsmith_. _Disraeli_, however, gives the origin to a Captain

Fudge, a great fibber, who told monstrous stories, which made his crew

say in answer to any improbability, “you FUDGE it!”—_See Remarks on the

Navy_, 1700.

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