Bodge

//bɒdʒ//

Synonyms for "bodge" (55 found)

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Closest matches (11)

Verb(8 words)

ball up blow bobble bollix bollix up bollocks bollocks up botch

Noun(2 words)

band-aid band-aid solution

botch

Strong matches (17)

Verb(12 words)

botch up bumble bungle cludge cobble together flub fluff foul up frig fuck up fumble jury-rig

Noun(5 words)

cludge fiddle hack hack job jugaad

Related words (27)

Noun(12 words)

kludge kluge lash-up make-do makeshift patch patch-up put-together quick fix quick-and-dirty stopgap workaround

Verb(15 words)

kludge kluge knock together knock up louse up macgyver make-do mess up mishandle muck up muff patch patch-up screw up spoil

Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

3 entries

fail go wrong miscarry

Synonyms

1 entries

botch

Related terms

2 entries

bodger botch

derived

2 entries

bodge job bodgery

etymologically related_to

2 entries

beat boot

has context

5 entries

british historical northern ireland slang south east england

related to

14 entries

bodger botch cambodia forge go cart handcart homemade insane mend off rails patch quench repair smith

Sample sentences

10 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

That's a bodge job.

Source: tatoeba (3703053)

Tom did a bodge job.

Source: tatoeba (11979062)

We bodged again; as I have seen a swan

Source: wiktionary

All the actions of his life are like so many things bodged in without any natural cadence or connexion at all.

Source: wiktionary

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