| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. A botch; a patch.[Websters]. | |
| Verb | 1. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.[Wordnet]
2. To botch; to mend clumsily; to patch.[Websters] 3. See Budge.[Websters] 4. Base verb from the following inflections: bodging, bodged, bodges, bodger, bodgers, bodgingly and bodgedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "BODGE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: BODGE
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] To boggle; to stop. [Not used.]. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wikipedic | Bodge is British slang for a mistake of impressive magnitude, usually made through carelessness. The term was coined after the collapse of a bridge designed by an architect named Bodge. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Etymology 1] (UK) A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair. (references) | 2: [Etymology 1] (UK) To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair. Because of the lack of proper tools he will bodge the repair. (references) | 3: [Etymology 2] (historical) The water in which a smithy would quench items heated in a forge. (references) | 4: [Etymology 2] (rare) A sleeping area within a large bush (i.e. boxwood) in front of a Lodge or Fraternity House. (references) | 5: [Etymology 2] (slang, Northern Ireland) insane or off the rails. (references) | 6: [Etymology 2] (South East England) A four wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also a home made go-cart. (references) | 7: [Proper noun] A nickname for the country of Cambodia. (references) |
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