Dodge vs Bodge - What's the difference?
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To avoid by moving suddenly out of the way.
(figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
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(photography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them darker (compare burn).
To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
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(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 dodge and bodge
is that dodge is derived from a (etyl) diminutive of roger (typically found in the united states) while bodge is a nickname for the country of.dodge
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Verb
(dodg)- He dodged traffic crossing the street.
- The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
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- A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! / And still it neared and neared: / As if it dodged a water-sprite, / It plunged and tacked and veered.
Synonyms
* (to avoid) duck, evade, fudge, skirtDerived terms
* dodge a bullet * dodger * dodgybodge
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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. }}