Words that rhyme with nudge

  • adjudge
    v 1: declare to be; "She was declared incompetent"; "judge held that the defendant was innocent" [syn: declare, adjudge, hold]
  • begrudge
    v 1: be envious of; set one's heart on [syn: envy, begrudge] 2: wish ill or allow unwillingly [syn: begrudge, resent] [ant: wish, wish well]
  • budge
    n 1: United States tennis player who in 1938 was the first to win the Australian and French and English and United States singles championship in the same year (1915-2000) [syn: Budge, Don Budge, John Donald Budge] v 1: move very slightly; "He shifted in his seat" [syn: stir, shift, budge, agitate]
  • drudge
    n 1: one who works hard at boring tasks [syn: hack, drudge, hacker] 2: a laborer who is obliged to do menial work [syn: drudge, peon, navvy, galley slave] v 1: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil]
  • fudge
    n 1: soft creamy candy v 1: tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" [syn: fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent] 2: avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully" [syn: hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep]
  • grudge
    n 1: a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation; "holding a grudge"; "settling a score" [syn: grudge, score, grievance] v 1: bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings [syn: stew, grudge] 2: accept or admit unwillingly
  • judge
    n 1: a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice [syn: judge, justice, jurist] 2: an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality [syn: evaluator, judge] v 1: determine the result of (a competition) 2: form a critical opinion of; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?" "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people" [syn: evaluate, pass judgment, judge] 3: judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time); "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds" [syn: estimate, gauge, approximate, guess, judge] 4: pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work here" [syn: pronounce, label, judge] 5: put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of; "The football star was tried for the murder of his wife"; "The judge tried both father and son in separate trials" [syn: judge, adjudicate, try]
  • kludge
    n 1: a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose (often used to refer to computing systems or software that has been badly put together)
  • misjudge
    v 1: judge incorrectly
  • prejudge
    v 1: judge beforehand, especially without sufficient evidence
  • sludge
    n 1: the precipitate produced by sewage treatment 2: any thick, viscous matter [syn: sludge, slime, goo, goop, gook, guck, gunk, muck, ooze]
  • smudge
    n 1: a smoky fire to drive away insects 2: a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" [syn: smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur] v 1: make a smudge on; soil by smudging [syn: smear, blur, smudge, smutch]
  • trudge
    n 1: a long difficult walk v 1: walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone" [syn: slog, footslog, plod, trudge, pad, tramp]
  • pudge
    n 1: a short fat person
  • forejudge
  • mudge
  • rudge
  • bludge

See also nudge definition and nudge synonyms