▪ I. † ˈbodging, vbl. n.1 Obs.
Also 6 and 9 dial. bogging.
[f. bodge v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of patching clumsily.
| 1633 Sanderson Serm. ad Aul. iii. (1681) II. 36 The Bodging in of a course Shred into a fine garment. |
2. Botching, bungling.
| 1612 Brinsley Lud. Lit. 107 To turne the prose of the Poets into the Poets owne verse, without any bodging. |
▪ II. ˈbodging, vbl. n.2 (dial.)
= bodgering; see bodger3.
| 1953 A. Jobson Househ. & Country Crafts xx. 178 Of all the woodland crafts, that of chair-bodging seems the most rural. 1957 Times 2 July (Agric. Suppl.) p. viii/7 The demonstration of chair leg bodging. |