bodge

/ (bɒdʒ) /

verb

informal to make a mess of; botch
Australian informal to make or adjust in a false or clumsy way: I bodged the figures

Origin of bodge

C16: changed from botch

Words Nearby bodge

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

How to use bodge in a sentence

bodge hopes to make money off of those transactions, but only if they happen on his platform.
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I said to myself right along, 'Brains has got to win in the end, bodge.
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It's takin' capital to make bodge and his idea worth anything.
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The first exhibits in the domain of bodge were not cheering or suggestive of value.
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Mr. bodge retreated as nimbly as a man with a peg-leg could be expected to move.
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Mr. bodge noted with satisfaction the gleam of interest in capital's eyes.
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