Fudge vs Bodge - What's the difference?
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Light or frothy nonsense.
A type of very sweet candy or confection. Often used in the US synonymously with chocolate fudge.
(countable) A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
(uncountable, dated) A made-up story; nonsense; humbug.
(countable) A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
To try to avoid giving a direct answer; to waffle or equivocate.
To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty. Always deliberate, but not necessarily dishonest or immoral.
(euphemistic) Colloquially, used in place of fuck.
(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 nouns the difference between fudge and bodge
is that fudge is light or frothy nonsense while bodge is a clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.As verbs the difference between fudge and bodge
is that fudge is to try to avoid giving a direct answer; to waffle or equivocate while bodge is to do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; patch up; repair, mend.As an interjection fudge
is colloquially, used in place of fuck.As an adjective bodge is
insane or off the rails.As a proper noun Bodge is
a nickname for the country of Cambodiafudge
English
(wikipedia fudge)Noun
- Have you tried the vanilla fudge ? It's delicious!
Verb
(fudg)- When I asked them if they had been at the party, they fudged .
- The results of the experiment looked impressive, but it turned out the numbers had been fudged .
- I had to fudge the lighting to get the color to look good.
Derived terms
* fudgerInterjection
(head)- Oh, fudge !
Derived terms
* fudge factor * fudge packerbodge
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(bodg)Noun
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