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bodge

The correct spelling is bodge.

How to pronounce bodge

/bɒdʒ/
noun

IPA: /bɒdʒ/

Say it like: Boj

The correct spelling is bodge. A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair. For example: "All the actions of his life are like so many things bodged in without any natural cadence or connexion at all. — (A book of characters, selected from the writings of Overbury, Earle, and Butler, Thomas Overbury and John Earle, 1865)"

Usage Examples

All the actions of his life are like so many things bodged in without any natural cadence or connexion at all. — (A book of characters, selected from the writings of Overbury, Earle, and Butler, Thomas Overbury and John Earle, 1865)

Meanings

noun

  1. 1.A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.
  2. 2.The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.
  3. 3.(South East England) A four-wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also, a homemade go-cart.

verb

  1. 1.To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.
  2. 2.To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.

adjective

  1. 1.Insane, off the rails.

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