Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. chiefly UK, colloquial A bulk quantity; usually of small items, particularly money.
Etymologies
- Probably an alteration of wedge. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Twenty two miles of very wet and lumpy hair and a huge 'wodge' of air above the hair!”
“Now that would be Bain Capital, the company that Romney set up with a huge wodge of cash given to him by George Bain.”
The Guardian: New Hampshire Republican debate - live: Mitt Romney versus the rest
“Wink Wink, nudge nudge, say no more," I whispered conspiratorially, flashing him a wodge of moulah.”
“MM could so easily be transposed to a dull West London parish with a wodge of irritating suitors!”
Neglected Classics and Unbound Women « Tales from the Reading Room
“Or you could just stow a wodge of the stuff in your knapsack and set off to raid Byzantium.”
The Huffington Post: Anneli Rufus: Medieval Energy Bars: They're Back!
“So, come on, bankers, give the arts a wodge of your latest bonus and we might even start to love you ...”
“He ate slowly, dipping each spoonful of egg into the salt, topping it with a generous wodge of butter.”
“He had a wodge of papers with him, official forms, all sorts, the bumf as the pilots called it—Jerry recognized the one you signed that named who your pension went to, and the one about what to do with your body if there was one and anyone had time to bother.”
“Permission not to be working on the manuscript feels like somebody pulled a giant wodge of Kleenex out of my brain.”
“Sooner or later someone younger than him – presumably a foetus in a hoodie or a wodge of spunk in a petri dish shaped like a BMX – will come along and steal his fans.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wodge’.
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Imprecise Units of Measurement
A list of terms for units of measurement that are less than exact, such as dessert-spoonful.
two shakes, dessert-spoonful, a pinch, a bit, some, smidge, smidgin, dollop, drop, fleck, smack, sprinkling and 187 more...
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Chit Chat
Conversations that are shorter than those featured in my conversations list.
props, frass, narwhal, preggers, mu, hype, heterotopia, sans serif, cow orker, snicker-snack, modality road, boolean poetry and 77 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Chained Bear's Favorite Words
peruvian, sparky, poop, etymological, fuck, whatnot, pulchritude, nosh, tetched, quotidian, squalid, trajectory and 388 more...
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British words
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Words that delight me
tepid, perfunctory, trope, benign, inordinate, bewildering, ersatz, boon, delectable, apt, scuttlebutt, sequester and 398 more...
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Grounded Words
an Eckhartian exercise of grinding
grind, grist, refrain, ground, grit, mitochondrion, groats, grout, gruel, great, gruesome, gravel and 162 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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The Amulet of Samarkand
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's The Amulet of Samarkand.
flunky, provenance, pare, rabbit in a covert, short shrift, bunker, trainers, tatty, lob, injunction, doss, bluster and 193 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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persnickety parlance
behoove, ebullient, insouciant, insipient, froth, quandary, quixotic, tendril, maktub, furrow, furl, anastrophe and 1076 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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silly, silly words
besnotted, skedaddle, humdinger, pamplemousse, pantalones, underpants gnomes, underoos, herpes zoster, possums, meat slurry, sausage, peevish and 256 more...
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Positively delightful
malarkey, rakeshame, aguish, larb, foist, discombobulate, bezaubernd, scuppernong, chantepleure, embrangle, wodge, deliquium and 2 more...
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splat
splat, blob, blorp, slop, spatter, spit, blip, blat, splatter, blot, drip, drib and 15 more...
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Identify the Wordienik!!
Well, wrap me in a looroll and call me Mummy!
‘tis the time for ‘ID the ‘nik!’
To quote bilby, who organised it last time round:
“Many thanks to the wondrous efforts of uselessnes...wodge, tear-resistant, systematic, slopseller, sinistral, queasy, protean, prodigal, present, playful, panda, od and 18 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for wodge.
mialuthien Heh, that's a good one, thanks, Chained_Bear. Surprisingly, it isn't in my 85,000-word bilingual dictionary. It looks like I'll have get out my bulky English-Russian dictionary for a precise translation.
Wodge – ком, комок and ломоть, ку�?. Nice! Jul 31, 2008
reesetee You'll see, if you look at the mammoth-sized tags, that I have removed my madeupical tag. It has been completely unmadeupicalized.
Wodge. A real word. Oct 12, 2007
chained_bear AHA!! It isn't madeupical!! Here's what the OED says:
Colloquial (originally dialect): A bulky mass; a chunk or lump; a wad (of paper).
Usages:
1922 Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 797/1 A ‘wodge’ in his left breast-pocket. 1949 D. SMITH I capture Castle II. viii. 112 You must take only one kind of food on the fork at a time; never a nice comfortable wodge of meat and vegetables together.
Earlier usages:
1860 All Year Round 28 July 368/2 The unhappy children (Blue-coat boys)...are compelled...to turn their skirts up and gird them in a great hot wadge about their loins. 1862 C. A. COLLINS Cruise upon Wheels xxiv. (1863) 413 That monstrous wadge of a dressing-gown. Oct 12, 2007
chained_bear Oh it is not madeupical!! It can't be! No! *puts fingers in ears* LA LA LA LA!! Oct 12, 2007
reesetee Yum. A delicious wodge is exactly what a squished-up PB&J sandwich should taste like!
Of course, it can't be wet bread. Oct 11, 2007
chained_bear Usage note:
"I had one last sandwich remaining in my pocket, but had been reluctant to eat it on the coach, under the curious gaze of my fellow travelers. I pulled it out and carefully unwrapped it. Peanut butter and jelly on white bread, it was considerably the worse for wear, with the purple stains of the jelly seeping through the limp bread, and the whole thing mashed into a flattened wodge. It was delicious."
Diana Gabaldon, _Voyager_, 1994.
To this day, even if my PB&J is not flattened, I always think of it as a delicious wodge. It is simply the perfect word for a squished-up PB&J sandwich. Oct 11, 2007