different between wadge vs wodge

English

Etymology

A variant of wedge.

Noun

wadge (plural wadges)

1. (Ulster) thick slice of bread

Anagrams

• gawed, waged

English

Etymology

Probably an alteration of wedge.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /w?d?/

Noun

wodge (plural wodges)

1. (chiefly Britain, colloquial) A bulk mass, usually of small items, particularly money; a wad

   He paid a wodge of dosh for his new motor from the car dealership.

   • 1900, George Manville Fenn, The Lost Middy, Chapter Sixteen,^[1]

     […] if Eben comes to me with that there hankychy and slips a big wodge of hard Hamsterdam ’bacco and a square bottle o’ stuff as hasn’t paid dooty into my hands in the dark some night, what am I to do?

   • 1963, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, London: Faber & Faber, 1971, Chapter Fourteen,^[2]

     I lifted the lid off the second tureen and uncovered a wodge of macaroni, stone-cold and stuck together in a gluey paste.

   • 2012, John Sweeney, ‘At War with Ceausescu’, Literary Review, issue 399:

     Bad food, bad drinks, no decent pubs, no laughter in public, and dodgy money-changers hissing that communism was shit and who then disappeared, leaving us with wodges of worthless notes.

Related terms

• wodgy