different between bodge vs bodged

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b?d?/
• Rhymes: -?d?

Etymology 1

From Middle English bocchen (“to mend, patch up, repair”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Middle Dutch botsen, butsen, boetsen (“to repair, patch”) (Dutch botsen (“to strike, beat, knock together”)), related to Old High German b?zan (“to beat”), See beat; or perhaps from Old English b?tettan (“to improve, repair”), Old English b?tian (“to get better”). More at boot.

Verb

bodge (third-person singular simple present bodges, present participle bodging, simple past and past participle bodged)

1. (Britain) To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:kludge
2. To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.

Translations

Noun

bodge (plural bodges)

1. A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:workaround

Derived terms

• bodge job

Related terms

• bodger
• botch

Translations

Etymology 2

Unknown

Noun

bodge (plural bodges)

1. (historical) The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.
2. (South East England) A four-wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also, a homemade go-cart.

Adjective

bodge (comparative more bodge, superlative most bodge)

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

Anagrams

• bedog, begod

English

Verb

bodged

1. (Britain) simple past tense and past participle of bodge

   Lacking proper tools, he bodged the repair.