different between wodge vs bodge

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

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