Bode vs Bodge - What's the difference?
bode | bodge |
To indicate by signs, as future events; to be the omen of; to portend; to presage; to foreshow.
To foreshow something; to augur.
* Dryden
An omen; a foreshadowing.
* Chaucer
(obsolete, or, dialect) A bid; an offer.
A messenger; a herald.
A stop; a halting; delay.
(bide)
* Tennyson
(British) To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; patch up; repair, mend
* All the actions of his life are like so many things bodged in without any natural cadence or connexion at all. — (A book of characters, selected from the writings of Overbury, Earle, and Butler, Thomas Overbury and John Earle, 1865)
* Some cars were neglected, others bodged to keep them running with inevitable consequences — (Original Porsche 356: The Restorer's Guide, Laurence Meredith, 2003)
* Do not be satisfied with a bodged job, set yourself professional goals and standards — (The Restauration Handbook, Enric Roselló, 2007)
To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.
*1978 , John Geraint Jenkins, Traditional Country Craftsmen , page 16, ISBN 0710087268.
*:His father, grandfather and countless generations before him had obtained a living from chair bodging in the solitude of the beech glades.
*1989 , John Birchard, "The artful bodger", American Woodworker , page 41, May-June.
*:"Bodging is more a curiosity than a valid craft these days," says Don. "But experience in low-tech woodworking is also a good way for the beginner to start getting a feel for turning without having to make a huge investment in a modern lathe."
*2000 , Beth Robinson Bosk, The New Settler Interviews: Boogie at the Brink , ISBN 189013239X.
*:Which is no different than my chair bodging , in that I can go out into the woodland and do my work without having to be tied in to a village shop situation.
A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair
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(historical) The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.
(South East England) A four wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also a home made go-cart.
As proper nouns the difference between bode and bodge
is that bode is while bodge is a nickname for the country of.bode
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) boden, from (etyl) ). : Since 1740 also a shortening of forebodeVerb
(bod)- Whatever now / The omen proved, it boded well to you.
Derived terms
* bodementNoun
(en noun)- The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- (Robertson)
Etymology 2
*Verb
(head)- There that night they bode .
References
* [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=bode&searchmode=none]Anagrams
* English irregular simple past forms ----bodge
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(bodg)Noun
(en noun)citation, archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-02-05 , passage=The simple tool above provides a low-tech bodge to help people locate missing friends and family in Christchurch following today's terrible earthquake. }}