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Codge vs Podge - What's the difference?

codge | podge |

As a verb codge

is to patch or cobble together; to make hastily and carelessly.

As a noun podge is

(informal) a fat person or podge can be (uk|dialect) a puddle; a plash.

codge

English

Verb

(codg)
  • To patch or cobble together; to make hastily and carelessly.
  • * 1990 , Rosalind Miles, Ben Jonson: his craft and art (page 159)
    • this it was that branded him as one of the contemporary theatre's journeymen hack 'playwrights', in his own disparaging phrase, ready to turn a hand to anything, and able to codge up a play to order from any materials at hand.

    podge

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) a fat person
    • See also
    * hodge-podge

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) A puddle; a plash.
    • (Skinner)
  • (UK, dialect) porridge
    • (Halliwell)
    (Webster 1913)