Nikola,
Sugar and fudge as swear words? Sugar I have never heard used as a substitute swear word, and fudge is really really archaic, like 1900s era, maybe. Never today. I’ve heard that one said as a substitute to a swear word maybe twice in my entire life and thought it sounded weird then. It’s way toooo euphemistic-sounding. It just doesn’t work and sounds just strange to me. Are you sure about those? Instead of God damn you might hear „goodness“ or „for goodness sakes“ or heck instead of hell. Not too many others come to mind. I‘d not ever say „fudge“. It‘s really out of date and corny-sounding.
Believe it or not, sugar and fudge are used in the UK.
Oh, I don‘t doubt the UK use of any slang or euphemisms, because they can be quite different. I‘m not sure what sugar would mean, except if it referred to that old use of the word (which would be considered insulting now and hence never used) pertaining to a woman, like „Sugar, can you do me a favor?“ Or „sugarpie“ (very Southern-sounding and old) as long as it was one woman talking to another. If a man, especially in the context of a work environment, said that too a woman today it would really be considered misogynistic and rude. Not to mention, really old-fashioned. It would probably be considered sexual harassment at the workplace. They used to refer to a female office worker as the employer‘s „girl“, but that is right out of the 1950s and earlier. The woman‘s movement stopped that practice pretty fast.
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