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Bodge vs Badge - What's the difference?

bodge | badge |

As verbs the difference between bodge and badge

is that bodge is to do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; patch up; repair, mend while badge is to mark or distinguish with a badge.

As nouns the difference between bodge and badge

is that bodge is a clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair while badge is a distinctive mark, token, sign, emblem or cognizance, worn on one's clothing, as an insignia of some rank, or of the membership of an organization.

As an adjective bodge

is insane or off the rails.

As a proper noun Bodge

is a nickname for the country of Cambodia

bodge

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Verb

(bodg)
  • (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.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date=2011-02-22 , year= , first= , last= , author=Cory Doctorow , authorlink= , title= , site=BoingBoing 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. }}
    Related terms
    * bodger * botch
    Derived terms
    * bodge job

    Etymology 2

    Unknown

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang, Northern Ireland) insane or off the rails

    • badge

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A distinctive mark, token, sign, emblem or cognizance, worn on one's clothing, as an insignia of some rank, or of the membership of an organization.
    • the badge''' of a society; the '''badge of a policeman
  • * Prescott
    • Tax gatherers, recognized by their official badges .
  • A small nameplate, identifying the wearer, and often giving additional information.
  • A card, sometimes with a barcode or magnetic strip, granting access to a certain area.
  • Something characteristic; a mark; a token.
  • * {{quote-book, year=158? or 159?, author=, title=Titus Andronicus, section=Act I, Scene 2
    • , passage=Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge .}}
  • A brand on the hand of a thief, etc.
    • He has got his badge , and piked: He was burned in the hand, and is at liberty.
  • (nautical) A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.
  • (heraldry) A distinctive mark worn by servants, retainers, and followers of royalty or nobility, who, being beneath the rank of gentlemen, have no right to armorial bearings.

    • Derived terms

    * badge bunny * badger

    Verb

    (badg)
  • To mark or distinguish with a badge.
    • ''The television was badged as 'GE', but wasn't made by them.
  • To show a badge to.
    • He calmed down a lot when the policeman badged him.
  • To enter a restricted area by showing one's badge.
  • * (rfdate)
  • * 2003 , Joseph Wambaugh, Fire Lover , page 146:
    • And Patterson didn't hear that Jack Egger, the studio's director of security, said he'd seen John Orr badge his way through the pedestrian gate sometime before 4:00 pm, when the fire was still raging, [...]
  • * 2004 , Sergei Hoteko, On The Fringe Of History , page 135:
    • Our regional commissioner, his assistant commissioner and our district director, along with their wives, were hoofing it to the rotunda. Apparently they didn't try and badge their way through.
  • * 2006 , David Pollino, Bill Pennington, Tony Bradley, Himanshu Dwivedi, Hacker's challenge 3 (page 338)
    • Aaron badged into the data center and escorted Geoff inside the large room with its many blinking green lights.

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