Bodge

Quick meaning: Bodge is a verb meaning (UK, Ireland) To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.
2. A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.
3. (South East England) A four-wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also, a homemade go-cart.
4. (historical) The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.
5. (slang, Northern Ireland) Insane, off the rails.

Example Sentences

We bodged again; as I have seen a swan

Do not be satisfied with a bodged job, set yourself professional goals and standards

Some cars were neglected, others bodged to keep them running with inevitable consequences

All the actions of his life are like so many things bodged in without any natural cadence or connexion at all.

Word Forms

• bodges
• bodging
• bodged

Synonyms for bodge

Depending on context, synonyms include cludge, jury-rig, kludge, kluge, knock up, make-do.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include botch, mess up, bungle, mommick, bauchle, stuff up.

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