bodge
See also: 'Bodge
English
Pronunciation
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Audio (AU): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒdʒ
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English bocchen (“to mend, patch up, repair”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Dutch botsen, butsen, boetsen (“to repair, patch”) (Dutch botsen (“to strike, beat, knock together”)), related to Old High German bōzan (“to beat”), See beat; or perhaps from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English bōtettan (“to improve, repair”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English bōtian (“to get better”). More at boot.
Verb
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- (British) To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.
- All the actions of his life are like so many things bodged in without any natural cadence or connexion at all. — (A book of characters, selected from the writings of Overbury, Earle, and Butler, Thomas Overbury and John Earle, 1865)
- Some cars were neglected, others bodged to keep them running with inevitable consequences — (Original Porsche 356: The Restorer's Guide, Laurence Meredith, 2003)
- Do not be satisfied with a bodged job, set yourself professional goals and standards — (The Restoration Handbook, Enric Roselló, 2007)
- To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.
- 1978, John Geraint Jenkins, Traditional Country Craftsmen, →ISBN, page 16:
- His father, grandfather and countless generations before him had obtained a living from chair bodging in the solitude of the beech glades.
- 1989, John Birchard, "The artful bodger", American Woodworker, page 41, May-June.
- "Bodging is more a curiosity than a valid craft these days," says Don. "But experience in low-tech woodworking is also a good way for the beginner to start getting a feel for turning without having to make a huge investment in a modern lathe."
- 2000, Beth Robinson Bosk, The New Settler Interviews: Boogie at the Brink, →ISBN.
- Which is no different than my chair bodging, in that I can go out into the woodland and do my work without having to be tied in to a village shop situation.
Synonyms
- (make a temporary repair): see Thesaurus:kludge
Translations
do a clumsy or inelegant job — see botch
Noun
bodge (plural bodges)
- A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.
- 2011 February 22, Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing[1], retrieved 2012-02-05:
- The simple tool above provides a low-tech bodge to help people locate missing friends and family in Christchurch following today's terrible earthquake.
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Etymology 2
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Noun
bodge (plural bodges)
- (historical) The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.
- (South East England) A four-wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also, a homemade go-cart.
Adjective
bodge (comparative more bodge, superlative most bodge)
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