▪ I. † bodge, n.1 Obs. or dial.
[f. bodge v.: cf. botch n.2]
A clumsy patch; a botched piece of work.
| 1589 Pappe w. Hatchet (1844) 20 You shall blush at your owne bodges. 1598 Florio, Sbozzi, bodges, or bunger-like workes. 1877 Peacock North Lincolnsh. Gl., Bodge, a botch, a clumsy patch. |
▪ II. † bodge, n.2 Obs.
Also 6 bogge.
A measure used in selling oats, etc.; app. about half a peck.
| 1520 MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., iij busshellis & iij bogges of benys. 1631 B. Jonson New Inn i. v. Wks. (1692) 726 To the last Bodge of Oats, and Bottle of Hay. 1683 Rob. Conscience in Harl. Misc. I. 50 Their bodges, which for half-pecks go, They vowed at my head to throw. |
▪ III. † bodge, v. Obs. or dial.
[An altered form of botch v.; cf. grudge from grutch.]
1. trans. To patch or mend clumsily.
| 1552 Huloet, Bodge or botche olde clothes. 1570 Levins Manip. 156 To Bodge, sarcire. 1870 ― [in Leicestersh., Nth. Lincolnsh., Shropsh., and other dial. Glossaries]. |
2. to bodge up: to put together clumsily; to botch up, to do or make up in a clumsy fashion.
| 1578 T. White Serm. St. Paules Cross 33 To bodge up a house which will never abide the trial. Ibid. 47 A disease is but bodged or patched up that is not cured in the cause. 1593 Nashe Christ's T. 55 b, They..that bungle and bodge vppe wicked verses. 1881 Daily News 31 Aug. 2/2 Gaps bodged up by the rudest of post and pole barriers. |
▪ IV. bodge
obs. or dial. f. badge v.2, budge.