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Wodge vs Bodge - What's the difference?

wodge | bodge |

As nouns the difference between wodge and bodge

is that wodge is a bulk quantity; usually of small items, particularly money while bodge is a clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.

As a verb 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

wodge

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chiefly, UK, colloquial) A bulk quantity; usually of small items, particularly money.
  • *2012 , , ‘At War with Ceausescu’, Literary Review , issue 399:
  • *:Bad food, bad drinks, no decent pubs, no laughter in public, and dodgy money-changers hissing that communism was shit and who then disappeared, leaving us with wodges of worthless notes.

    • 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