bodging
/B AA1 JH IH0 NG/verb
- 1
To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.
โAll the actions of his life are like so many things bodged in without any natural cadence or connexion at all. โ (A book of characters, selected from the writings of Overbury, Earle, and Butler, Thomas Overbury and John Earle, 1865)โ
- 2
To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.
noun
- 1
Traditional craft of turning wood for chair legs, braces, etc.
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