BODGE

botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up

(verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin; “I botched the dinner and we had to eat out”; “the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Verb

bodge (third-person singular simple present bodges, present participle bodging, simple past and past participle bodged)

(British) To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.

To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.

Synonyms

• (make a temporary repair): see kludge

Noun

bodge (plural bodges)

A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.

Synonyms

• See workaround

Etymology 2

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)

(slang, Northern Ireland) Insane, off the rails.

Anagrams

• bedog, begod

Source: Wiktionary


Bodge, n.

Definition: A botch; a patch. [Dial.] Whitlock.

Bodge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bodged.]

Definition: To botch; to mend clumsily; to patch. [Obs. or Dial.]

Bodge, v. i.

Definition: See Budge.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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