podge

English

Etymology 1

From podgy

Noun

podge (plural podges)

1. (UK, informal) a fat person

See also

• hodge-podge

Etymology 2

Compare German Patsche (“puddle, mire”).

Noun

podge (plural podges)

1. (UK, dialect) A puddle; a plash.

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2. (UK, dialect) porridge

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “podge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• go-ped