Bodgery

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Clumsy or inelegant work. uncountable

    "As Andrew, in particular, began to work on renovation and improvement, his talk about this began to be peppered with references to 'bodgery' — 'When I look at it, all I see is bodgery', he says recurrently, with a mixture of exclamation and despair."

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"As Andrew, in particular, began to work on renovation and improvement, his talk about this began to be peppered with references to 'bodgery' — 'When I look at it, all I see is bodgery', he says recurrently, with a mixture of exclamation and despair."

Etymology

From bodge + -ery.

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