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Repair vs Bodge - What's the difference?

repair | bodge |

As nouns the difference between repair and bodge

is that repair is the act of repairing something while bodge is a clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.

As verbs the difference between repair and bodge

is that repair is to restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy while bodge is to do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; patch up; repair, mend.

As an adjective bodge is

insane or off the rails.

As a proper noun Bodge is

a nickname for the country of Cambodia

repair

English

Etymology 1

Coined between 1300 and 1350 from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of repairing something.
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  • The result of repairing something.
  • The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
    • Derived terms
    * disrepair
    Related terms
    * reparation

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
    • to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship
    to repair a shattered fortune
  • * Milton
    • secret refreshings that repair his strength
  • * Wordsworth
    • Do thou, as thou art wont, repair / My heart with gladness.
  • To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
    • to repair a loss or damage
  • * Shakespeare
    • I'll repair the misery thou dost bear.
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * repairable / reparable, repairer

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) . Cognate to repatriate.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
    • our annual repair to the mountains
  • * Clarendon
    • The king sent a proclamation for their repair to their houses.
  • A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
  • * Dryden
    • There the fierce winds his tender force assail / And beat him downward to his first repair .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To transfer oneself to another place.
  • :
  • *(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • *:Go, mount the winds, and to the shades repair .
  • *1850 , , (Jane Eyre)
  • *:I heard the visitors repair to their chambers.
  • *
  • *:That finished, I repaired to my room, one flight up, and, after a thorough wash, seated myself, pipe in mouth, at the little window that opened on the Rue Garde. I had nothing more exciting on hand than to wait for word from Von Lindowe. I sincerely hoped that it would not be long, for it is not my forte to sit twiddling my thumbs.
    • Derived terms
    * repatriate

    Etymology 3

    From .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to pair again

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    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