▪ I. podge, n. dial. or colloq.
(pɒdʒ)
[A parallel form, app. of later origin, of pudge n.]
Anything podgy; spec. a short fat man or woman; a short stout thick-set animal. Freq. a plump child. Also, excess weight, fat. (In quot. 1833 applied to an epaulette.)
| 1833 Marryat P. Simple viii, That man with the gold podge on his shoulder [the first lieutenant]. 1876 Whitby Gloss., Podge, a dirty, fat person. 1876 Mid.-Yorks. Gloss., Podge,..the term is..freely bestowed, in a good-natured manner, upon children of a fleshy appearance..‘Come hither, thou old podge’. 1901 Farmer & Henley Slang Dict., Podge (colloquial). 1903 in Eng. Dial. Dict. from Aberdeensh. to Cornwall. 1967 M. Summerton Memory of Darkness i. 17 She used to be a horrid little podge, always whining. 1967 A. Wilson No Laughing Matter i. 16 Don't tease the poor Podge. Time enough when she loses all that puppy fat. 1976 Leicester Chron. 26 Nov., The average man is putting on too much weight, and..needs clothes designed to help him hide the podge. |
▪ II. podge, v. Now dial.
(pɒdʒ)
Also pudge.
intr. To walk slowly and heavily. Hence ˈpodging ppl. a.
| 1638 N. Whiting Hist. Albino & Bellama 141 My Dames will say, I am a podging Asse. 1866 Gregor Banffsh. Gloss., Podge, to walk with short heavy steps. 1876 Mid.-Yorks. Gloss. s.v., Podge is also a v[erb] n. denoting the heavy irregular gait usual to very fat persons. 1904 H. F. Day Kin o' Ktaadn 193 Old Tay..pudges along to the tin box on the mantel. 1932 Nat. Geogr. Mag. July 120 Overtaken by darkness on starless nights, the swamp man crawls into a log for safety or sleep. ‘We always {oqq}pudge{cqq} around first to rout out any copperheads.’ 1955 E. Pound Section: Rock-Drill xci. 75 Farinata pudg'd still there in the cloister. |
▪ III. podge
obs. form of poddish, poddidge.