bodge
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A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.
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To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.
“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)”
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To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.
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The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.
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(South East England) A four-wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also, a homemade go-cart.
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Insane, off the rails.
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