EGAVE

bodge

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.
  2. verb To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.
  3. noun A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.
  4. noun The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.
  5. noun A four-wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also, a homemade go-cart.
  6. adjective Insane, off the rails.

Similar words

botch botch up mess up bungle mommick bauchle monkey up stuff up mismend muff

Often followed by

and was of up vp

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