Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; patch up; repair, mend
- v. To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.
- n. A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair
- n. The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.
- n. A four wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also a home made go-cart.
- adj. insane or off the rails
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A botch; a patch.
- transitive v. To botch; to mend clumsily; to patch.
- intransitive v. See budge.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To boggle; botch; patch.
- n. A botch; a patch.
- To budge; give way: used only in the passage cited.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. make a mess of, destroy or ruin
Etymologies
Examples
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This "bodge" seems to have helped the BlogVoices slowdown.
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My personal work around, although I hate this kind of bodge, is to create a string of length >
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The steel is forged, milled of the superfulous, tempered & polished then you have something fine, though there is a lot of ways to totally bodge the process on the way.
Why Are The Ammo Shelves Empty? What, Exactly, Are People Afraid Of?
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Personally I trust myself above a whole army of 'professionals' who'll bodge a job, charge a fortune, then leave me to the consequences - and I speak from bitter experience.
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If you're interested in feedback, you could look at lower-overhead ways of letting people rate or share posts - addthis is easy to add to blogger (which reminds me I should sort out the bodge job I've done on this blog) as a prompt for people to share, save or discuss your posts.
Soliciting conversation and listening actively while isolating discussion
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Greece, whose bodge-job finances triggered the crisis, might well be forced to negotiate an exit from the euro.
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There were plenty of crises in Late Roman Britain that could have provided the context for a rushed repair, or for the army to have been stretched very thin and needing to bodge up a repair with any semi-skilled or unskilled labour they had to hand.
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Overriding the brakes on the trailer will also be tricky, but I reckon I can bodge something.
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So assuming they hire professionals which they dont as it happens, you'd have to make a real effort to bodge this job.
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The only elastic I had was really thick and I had to nick some aplix off an old holey Tots Bots wrap so it was a bit of a bodge job but hey, here it is ....
MaryW commented on the word bodge
Marie Browne, Narrow Margins (Mid-Glamorgan: Accent Press Ltd., 2009)November 3, 2015
yarb commented on the word bodge
Contranymic. In the UK, can mean to improvise, construct ad hoc.
E.g. "we didn't have any batteries, so I bodged something together with a potato and a strip of zinc."
And the meaning listed by Wordnet, similar to botch.
March 28, 2009