bodge

Meanings

Verb

• To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.
• To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.

Noun

• A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.
• The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.
• A four-wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also, a homemade go-cart.

Adjective

• Insane, off the rails.

Origin

• From Middle English bocchen ("to mend, patch up, repair"), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Middle Dutch botsen, butsen, boetsen (Dutch botsen ("to strike, beat, knock together")), related to Old High German bōzan ("to beat"), See beat; or perhaps from Old English bōtettan ("to improve, repair"), Old English bōtian ("to get better"). More at boot.
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