bodger
Britishadjective
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informal worthless or second-rate
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a labourer who traditionally lived and worked in the forest, making chairs from felling trees
Etymology
Origin of bodger
C20: from bodge
Example Sentences
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Even with 250,000 annual visitors — and a mining company pushing a $3 billion copper-nickel mine near the southwest boder of the park — there are few signs of human presence in the area.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2016
"Ohon a reel Ohon a reel What make you all this boder for—come you to help us to wake poor ould Kate there, and bring you the whisky wid you?"
From Tom Cringle's Log by Scott, Michael
"You ain'd bought a pottle uf medicine, und I can'd boder to mofe vor you."
From Frank Merriwell's Bravery by Standish, Burt L.
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