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bodge
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Princeton's WordNet
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 upverb
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"
Wiktionary
Bodgenoun
A nickname for the country of Cambodia
Etymology: From Cambodge, by shortening
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Bodgeverb
To boggle; to stop; to fail.
Etymology: a word in William Shakespeare, which is perhaps corrupted from boggle.
With this we charg’d again; but out! alas,
We bodg’d again; as I have seen a swan,
With bootless labour, swim against the tide. William Shakespeare, H. VI.
Wikipedia
bodge
Bodging (full name Chair-Bodgering) is a traditional woodturning craft, using green (unseasoned) wood to make chair legs and other cylindrical parts of chairs. The work was done close to where a tree was felled. The itinerant craftsman who made the chair legs was known as a bodger or chair-bodger.
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bodge
Bodge is a term typically used in the UK, which refers to an action of repairing or arranging something clumsily or hurriedly, especially in a makeshift way, using the materials and skills available. It implies a quick and often poor-quality solution to a problem or issue.
Webster Dictionary
Bodgenoun
a botch; a patch
Bodgeverb
to botch; to mend clumsily; to patch
Bodgeverb
see Budge
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Bodge
boj, v.i. to make bad work, to fail.—n. Bodg′er, a botcher, a pedlar. [A form of Botch.]
The New Hacker's Dictionary
bodge
[Commonwealth hackish] Syn. kludge or hack (sense 1). “I'll bodge this in now and fix it later”.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
BODGE
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bodge is ranked #67519 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Bodge surname appeared 292 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Bodge.
97.6% or 285 total occurrences were White.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of bodge in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of bodge in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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- bodgeFrench
- ボッジJapanese
- gambiarraPortuguese
- 博奇Chinese
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