wodge
/wɒd͡ʒ/US/wɑd͡ʒ/
wodge noun: a bulk mass, usually of small items, particularly money; a wad.
Noun
wodge (plural wodges)
- A bulk mass, usually of small items, particularly money; a wad
- He paid a wodge of dosh for his new motor from the car dealership.
- […] if Eben comes to me with that there hankychy and slips a big wodge of hard Hamsterdam ’bacco and a square bottle o’ stuff as hasn’t paid dooty into my hands in the dark some night, what am I to do?1900, George Manville Fenn, chapter 16, in The Lost Middy
Examples of wodge in a sentence
- I lifted the lid off the second tureen and uncovered a wodge of macaroni, stone-cold and stuck together in a gluey paste.1963, Sylvia Plath, chapter 14, in The Bell Jar, London: Faber & Faber, published 1971:
- Bad food, bad drinks, no decent pubs, no laughter in public, and dodgy money-changers hissing that communism was shit and who then disappeared, leaving us with wodges of worthless notes.2012, John Sweeney, ‘At War with Ceausescu’, Literary Review, number 399:
- And, um (clicks tongue) cut us a few wodges of brack while you’re at it.2020 January 6, Joe Murtagh, Colin Barrett, 01:18:44 from the start, in Calm With Horses (film), spoken by Hector (David Wilmott):
Forms of wodge
| plural | wodges |
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Origin of wodge
Probably an alteration of wedge. Compare wad.
Words that rhyme with wodge
Questions about wodge
- What does wodge mean?
- Wodge means a bulk mass, usually of small items, particularly money; a wad.
- How do you use wodge in a sentence?
- I lifted the lid off the second tureen and uncovered a wodge of macaroni, stone-cold and stuck together in a gluey paste.
- What part of speech is wodge?
- Wodge is a noun.
- How do you pronounce wodge?
- Wodge is pronounced /wɒd͡ʒ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of wodge?
- The plural of wodge is wodges.
Words near wodge in the dictionary
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