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▪ I. stodge, n.|stɒdʒ|
[f. stodge v.]
1. A thick liquid mixture.
a. Thick, tenacious mud or soil.
1825J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng., Stodge, any very thick liquid mixture. 1881Whitehead Hops 44 In wet weather the horses feet make a great stodge in ploughing.
b. Food of a semi-solid consistency, esp. stiff farinaceous food; spec. heavy and usu. fattening food (often with little nutritional value). colloq.
1841Hartshorne Salop. Ant. Gloss., Stodge, a thick mess of oatmeal and milk, or any food which is semi-solid. 1874Mrs. H. Wood Mast. Greylands xxiii, The soup I make is not a tasteless stodge that you may almost cut with the spoon. 1891S. J. Duncan Amer. Girl in Lond. xxiii. 247 Oh, we'd like to [eat] but we can't... We're still in training you know... Fellows have got to train pretty much on stodge. 1963R. I. McDavid Mencken's Amer. Lang. 296 Pudding implies what we normally call stodge. 1963Times 13 Feb. 5/2 If the prisoner could not tolerate all the ‘stodge’ he became undernourished. 1976Milton Keynes Express 25 June 4/5 Remember that no exercise programme will work if not backed by sensible eating patterns and cut out stodge from today. 1980Times 28 Nov. 3/2 The writers complain of surviving on stodge like potatoes and rice.
2. a. ‘Stodging’, gorging with food. b. A heavy, solid meal. Chiefly School slang.
1894N. Gale Cricket Songs 32 O Bowler, Bowler, when the Swells all frown And say your non-success is due to Stodge. 1903Farmer & Henley Slang VI. 373/2 Stodge,..a heavy meal. 1904P. White Tri. Mrs. St. George viii, Here was a real live soldier..eating mutton, potatoes, and greens—the usual Thursday stodge!—along with a lot of kids!
c. Food of any kind. slang.
1890Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang II. 307/2 Stodge,..(popular and thieves), food. 1917‘Taffrail’ Sub ii. 72 Cream, jam, mineral waters and all other sorts of ‘stodge’. 1929F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 133 Stodge, food, generally used in the gunroom only. 1940M. Marples Public School Slang 167 Stodge (Rugby),..= food—e.g. ‘I've got a box of stodge.’
3. ‘Stodgy’ notions.
1900[see platitudinal a.]. 1902E. Glyn Refl. Ambrosine ix. 199 Avoid stodge..and..that sentimental mawkish dismal point of view, that dramatically wrote up over everything ‘Duty’ with a huge ‘D.’
4. A hard effort; an unfulfilling occupation.
1846J. C. Patteson Let. in C. M. Yonge Life J. C. Patteson (1874) I. iii. 58 Reading books for the second or third time is light work compared to the first stodge at them. 1873C. M. Yonge Pillars of House II. xxiv. 34 To let him go on here in the stodge is a bit of short-sightedness I can't understand.
5. = stodger.
1922E. V. Lucas Genevra's Money xxiii. 152 How silly of us to think he was going to be a stodge.
▪ II. stodge, v.|stɒdʒ|
[Of obscure origin; perh. phonetically symbolic after words like stuff, podge; cf. also stog v., stoach v.]
1. a. trans. To fill quite full, to fill to distension. † Also, to stuff in as a filling material (obs.).
1674Dryden in Johnson L.P., Dryden (1781) II. 21 It is a kind of gibblet porridge,..stodged full of meteors, orbs, spheres [etc.]. 1685H. More Paralip. Prophet. xli. 357 To bring in the Ostrogoths here, is as if one stuffing a Pillow with feathers, should so forget himself, as to stodge in pieces of Brick or Clay. 1790W. H. Marshall Rur. Econ. Midl. II. 443 Stodged; filled to the stretch; as a cow's udder with milk. 1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss., Stodged, filled to the stretch; crammed full... If things were crushed very closely into a sack, it would be stodged.
b. esp. To gorge with food.
1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss. s.v., Sometimes it is applied personally: ‘If you eat all that, you will be stodged full’. 1860Hotten's Slang Dict. 229. 1895 Allbutt in Contemp. Rev. Feb. 220 A ‘City man’..stodges his stomach with rich food three times a day.
absol.1911Barrie Peter & Wendy vii. 114 He could eat, really eat, if it was part of a game, but he could not stodge just to feel stodgy.
c. fig. Also to stodge off: to repulse by a surfeit.
1876Sir J. Paget Mem. & Lett. ii. iv. (1901) 282 We had begun to feel ‘stodged’: the mediæval art at Florence, especially, had quite filled us. 1894Blackmore Perlycross xxi, I thought I was a pretty plucky fellow,..but I'll show you where I was stodged off. 1909Westm. Gaz. 11 Dec. 3/1 Alas! it is mostly fiction that gluts the market, ‘stodges’ the reader, and..kills the few living books.
2. dial. (See quots.)
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Stodge, to stir up various ingredients into a thick mass. 1895Dialect Notes (Amer. Dial. Soc.) I. viii. 394 Stodge, to muss or mix up. Ind.
3. pass. To be stuck in the mud, to be bogged. (Cf. stog v.2)
1873W. P. Williams & W. A. Jones Gloss. Somerset 36 Pendummer Where the Devil was stodged in the midst of zummer. 1902C. G. Harper Cambridge, Ely, etc. Road 54 Enfield Highway..was until quite recently stodged in sloughs.
4. intr. To work steadily at (something ‘stodgy’ or tedious). colloq.
1912F. M. Hueffer Panel i. iii. 93, I tell you, I'm tired! Used up! I must have comfort, quiet! I can't stodge away any more. Ibid. 98, I plodded and stodged for just that, and nothing else. 1928― Last Post ii. iii. 259 They ought no longer to go stodging along in penury. 1939D. Jones Let. 17 Jan. in R. Hague Dai Greatcoat (1980) ii. 89 Writing is odder than painting... One seems to stodge on and scratch out for hours and days and then sometimes..something breaks through. 1959Listener 29 Oct. 748/2 Poor Dr. Bronowski seems fated to the pas seul... His fellows stodge around, looking severe and sagacious and sound and sensible.
5. To walk or trudge through mud or slush; to walk with short heavy steps. Occas. trans., to trudge through (mud). dial. or colloq.
1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss. II. 306 Studging, walking with short heavy steps; always used with the adjunct along. ‘He goes studging along.’ 1902Aberdeen Weekly Free Press 7 June 3/6 A polissman wha was comin' stodgin' doon the street. 1920W. Deeping Second Youth xxiii. 195 The ‘Old Man’ and his orderly stodged back again up a waterlogged communication trench. 1929― Roper's Row viii. 83 She had seen the feet of cattle stodging the mire in Melfont. Ibid. xiii. 138 A very stout woman..stodged round the grave after the service was over.
Hence stodged ppl. a., ˈstodging vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1873W. P. Williams & W. A. Jones Gloss. Somerset. 36 Stodged adj. stuffed with eating. 1898E. T. Fowler Conc. Isabel Carnaby 124 Admiration is like porridge—awfully stodging, but you get hungry again almost as soon as you've eaten it. 1903Longm. Mag. Oct. 527 The ‘stodged’ schoolboy again, for whom fielding out is a grievance. 1912Daily News 31 Dec. 9 There must be no eating when not hungry and no ‘stodging’ between meals. |