Sekirov Dictionary

bodge

UK /bɒdʒ/US /bɑdʒ/

noun 3
verb 2
adjective 1
forms 5

noun3

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A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.
- The simple tool above provides a low-tech bodge to help people locate missing friends and family in Christchurch following today's terrible earthquake. — 2011
A four-wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also, a homemade go-cart.
(historical) The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.

verb2

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(UK, Ireland) To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.
- We bodged again; as I have seen a swan — 1591
•
To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.
- His father, grandfather and countless generations before him had obtained a living from chair bodging in the solitude of the beech glades. — 1978

adjective1

(Northern-Ireland, slang) Insane, off the rails.

forms

bodged · bodging · bodges · more bodge · most bodge

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