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bodged

/bɒdʒd/

bodged is the simple past and past participle of bodge.

Meaning of bodge

Verb

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

  1. (Ireland, UK) To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.
    • We bodged again; as I have seen a swanc. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
  2. To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.
    • His father, grandfather and countless generations before him had obtained a living from chair bodging in the solitude of the beech glades.1978, John Geraint Jenkins, Traditional Country Craftsmen, →ISBN, page 16

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Questions about bodged

What is bodged the simple past and past participle of?
Bodged is the simple past and past participle of bodge.
How do you pronounce bodged?
Bodged is pronounced /bɒdʒd/.

Words near bodged in the dictionary

  1. bodge
  2. bodge job
  3. bodge jobs
  4. bodge wire
  5. bodge wires
  6. bodged
  7. bodger
  8. bodgers
  9. bodgery
  10. bodges
  11. bodgie

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