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- noun chiefly UK, colloquial A bulk quantity; usually of small items, particularly money.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Twenty two miles of very wet and lumpy hair and a huge 'wodge' of air above the hair!
Army Rumour Service 2009
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"Wink Wink, nudge nudge, say no more," I whispered conspiratorially, flashing him a wodge of moulah.
Chris Atkins: News of the Screwed Chris Atkins 2011
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Now that would be Bain Capital, the company that Romney set up with a huge wodge of cash given to him by George Bain.
New Hampshire Republican debate - live: Mitt Romney versus the rest 2012
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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 2009
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Or you could just stow a wodge of the stuff in your knapsack and set off to raid Byzantium.
Anneli Rufus: Medieval Energy Bars: They're Back! Anneli Rufus 2012
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"Wink Wink, nudge nudge, say no more," I whispered conspiratorially, flashing him a wodge of moulah.
Chris Atkins: News of the Screwed Chris Atkins 2011
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So, come on, bankers, give the arts a wodge of your latest bonus and we might even start to love you ...
The arts crunch 2010
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He ate slowly, dipping each spoonful of egg into the salt, topping it with a generous wodge of butter.
Watershed 2010
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So, come on, bankers, give the arts a wodge of your latest bonus and we might even start to love you ...
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So, come on, bankers, give the arts a wodge of your latest bonus and we might even start to love you ...
The arts crunch 2010
chained_bear commented on the word wodge
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.
October 11, 2007
reesetee commented on the word wodge
Yum. A delicious wodge is exactly what a squished-up PB&J sandwich should taste like!
Of course, it can't be wet bread.
October 11, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word wodge
Oh it is not madeupical!! It can't be! No! *puts fingers in ears* LA LA LA LA!!
October 12, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word wodge
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.
October 12, 2007
reesetee commented on the word wodge
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.
October 12, 2007
mialuthien commented on the word wodge
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!
July 31, 2008