stodge
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
noun
noun
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heavy filling starchy food
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dialect baked or steamed pudding
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a dull person or subject
verb
Etymology
Origin of stodge
1665–75; origin uncertain; in some senses perhaps blend of stoff (earlier form of stuff ) and gorge 1
Example Sentences
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Full-back Ruben Love broke the stodge with a brilliant step past two Welsh forwards for a fine individual try that underlined his promise.
From Barron's ● Nov. 22, 2025
Postecoglou’s brand of attacking football was a sharp contrast to the stodge of Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte but was too easily rumbled by opponents in the second half of the season.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2024
It hopes banning the shift will lead to more hits, more action and less stodge.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2023
You want something that will act as a gently abrasive counterpoint, a drink that, like that green salad, will periodically reset your palate for more superlative stodge.
From The Guardian ● May 16, 2016
He grabs the Leader and leaves me to stodge myself with his Times.
From Man and Superman by Shaw, Bernard
The power of thinking for herself hadn't been educated out of her; she had not been stodged with other people's—mostly dead people's—thoughts, therefore she had room for her own.
From The Purple Heights by Oemler, Marie Conway
Why, you don't mean to say, Deakin, that you have been stodged by G. Smith, Esquire?
From Plays of William E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson by Henley, William Ernest
Why, you don’t mean to say, Deakin, that you have been stodged by G. Smith, Esquire?
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Though Jack stuck to his tackle like wax, Bell and me was soon stodging like winkles; that gal did make play with the snacks.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93. July 30, 1887 by
Tall and well made, Lontaine had the good colour of men who care enough for their bodies to keep them keen and clean of the rust that comes of indoor stodging.
From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Vance, Louis Joseph
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