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bodge

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5 lettersPronunciation /bɒdʒ/Part of speech verbSorted bdegoStarts with BEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. make a mess of, destroy or ruin

Word origin

Inherited from Middle English bocchen (“to mend, patch up, repair”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Middle Dutch botsen, butsen, boetsen (“to repair, patch”) (Dutch botsen (“to strike, beat, knock together”)), related to Old High German bōzan (“to beat”), See beat; or perhaps from Old English bōtettan (“to improve, repair”), Old English bōtian (“to get better”). Compare botch. More at boot.

Used in a sentence

  • We bodged again; as I have seen a swan
  • All the actions of his life are like so many things bodged in without any natural cadence or connexion at all.
  • Some cars were neglected, others bodged to keep them running with inevitable consequences

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