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bodging

bodging is the present participle and gerund 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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Noun

bodging (uncountable)

  1. (UK) Traditional craft of turning wood for chair legs, braces, etc.

Questions about bodging

What does bodging mean?
Bodging means traditional craft of turning wood for chair legs, braces, etc.
What is bodging the present participle and gerund of?
Bodging is the present participle and gerund of bodge.
What part of speech is bodging?
Bodging is a noun.

Words near bodging in the dictionary

  1. bodgers
  2. bodgery
  3. bodges
  4. bodgie
  5. bodgies
  6. bodging
  7. bodgy
  8. Bodh Gaya
  9. Bodhachandra
  10. Bodhchandra
  11. bodhi

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