Fudge as a seafairing term

Tim tim at marvinhold.com
Sat Feb 14 19:20:54 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 90954

Recently I picked up a copy of Olivia A. Isil's "When A Loose Cannon
Flogs a Dead Horse 
There's The Devil To Pay: Seafaring Words in Everyday Speech". She
has an entry for Fudge 
which I will edit for brevity:

---
The act of deceiving by adjusting or making do in a careless, clumsy
or contrived manner. 
The orgin is thought to be a real-life sea captian surnamed Fudge as
related by Benjamin 
Disraeli in his 1791 "Curiosities of Literature" 

There was one Capt. Fudge who upon his return form a voyage, how
ill-fraught soever his 
ship, alwys brought home a good cargo of lies. So much so that now
aboard ship the 
sailors upon hearing a great lie cry out "You fudge it"
---

I so curious to see if Minister Fudge turns out to be a bumbling idiot
or an active ally of 
Pettigrew or LV.





More information about the HPforGrownups archive