adj
Meaning 1
Insane, off the rails.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-Ireland, slang
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Standard Lemma guide
bodge
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Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /bɒdʒ/
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General-American: /bɑdʒ/
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rhymes with -ɒdʒ
noun
Meaning 2
A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: band-aid, band-aid solution, bodge, cludge, fiddle, hack, hack job, jugaad, kludge, kluge, lash-up, make-do, makeshift, patch, patch-up, put-together, quick-and-dirty, quick fix, stopgap, workaround
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
Meaning 4
A four-wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also, a homemade go-cart.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: East, England, South
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verb
Meaning 5
To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, UK
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bodge, cludge, cobble together, jury-rig, kludge, kluge, knock together, knock up, MacGyver, make-do, patch, patch-up
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 7
make a mess of, destroy or ruin
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- I botched the dinner and we had to eat out
- the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: botch, 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
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fail, go wrong, miscarry
History
Etymology
Unknown
Inherited from Middle English bocchen (“to mend, patch up, repair”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Middle Dutch botsen, butsen, boetsen (“to repair, patch”) (Dutch botsen (“to strike, beat, knock together”)), related to Old High German bōzan (“to beat”), See beat; or perhaps from Old English bōtettan (“to improve, repair”), Old English bōtian (“to get better”). Compare botch. More at boot. Perhaps from boggle. Perhaps from botch (“patch, or a measurement of capacity equivalent to half a peck”). There is a hypothesis that bodges, defined as rough sacks of corn, closely resembled packages of finished goods the bodgers carried when they left the forest or workshop. Another hypothesis (dating from 1879) is that bodger was a corruption of badger, as similarly to the behaviour of a badger, the bodger dwelt in the woods and seldom emerged until evenings. Other hypotheses include German Böttcher (“cooper (profession)”), a trade that uses similar tools), and similar Scandinavian words, such the Danish bødker. These words have similar origins to butt, as in water butt (“rain barrel”). Or possibly it may have been a derogatory term used by workers in furniture factories, referring to the men who worked in the woods that produced the “incomplete” chair parts. The factory workers would then take the output of that "bodged job" and turn it into a finished product. The Oxford English Dictionary Supplement of 1972 has two definitions for bodger. One is a local dialect word from Buckinghamshire, for a chair leg turner. The other is Australian slang for bad workmanship. The etymology of the bodger and botcher (poor workmanship) are well recorded from Shakespeare onwards, and now the two terms are synonymous.