wodge
Americannoun
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a lump, chunk, or wad.
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an object having a lumpy, bulgy shape.
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of wodge
First recorded in 1905–10; perhaps alteration of wedge
Example Sentences
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It always seems to be spy thrillers that get the fat end of the licence fee payer’s wodge … The Night Manager channels all that money into a smoothly accomplished atmosphere of alienation and dread.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2016
I began to miss the feel of paper, the excitement of the ever-slimmer wodge of remaining pages fermenting the mix of suspense and regret before the final chapter.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2010
A spectacularly dull, utterly unoriginal and inconceivably ill-judged wodge of lifeless tripe has been thrust upon the moviegoing public, and they have lapped it up like flies in a bowl of sugar.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2010
The reason opera gets such a disproportionate wodge of the available money is that the people who go to the opera are precisely the same chaps who are divvying up the money.
From The Guardian ● May 27, 2010
Florence promised a healthy wodge of history at this year's Hay, not least with appearances from Norman Stone and from Niall Ferguson talking about his biography of the financier Sigmund Warburg.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 4, 2010
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