单词 | bodge |
释义 | bodgen.1ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] bodge1520 oxybaphon1574 receptive measure1669 measure of capacity1866 1520 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) iij busshellis & iij bogges of benys. 1627 in Acct. Bk. Kentish Estate 1616–1704 (1927) 87 For hemp seede 3 boges at 2s 4d the bushes. 1631 B. Jonson New Inne i. v. sig. B6v To the last bodge of oates, and bottle of hay. 1640 M. Parker Robin Conscience (new ed.) 8 Their Bodges which for half pecks goe, They vowed at my head to throw. 2. English regional (southern). A shallow oblong basket, usually made of wood, and traditionally used to carry flowers, fruit or vegetables, garden weeds, etc. Cf. trug n.1 3. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > basket > for fruit or vegetables fraila1382 top1440 tapnet1524 fig-frail1608 flat1640 raisin frail1669 chip basket1758 pottle1771 sievea1800 punnet1822 trug1836 bodge1876 molly1883 handle1900 1876 G. L. Gower Surrey Provincialisms in W. W. Skeat Orig. Gloss. III. 83 Bodge, a small scuttle-shaped basket of wood, such as is used by gardeners, or by persons to carry ashes to the ash-pit. 1934 ‘C. Dane’ Moonlight is Silver 88 Dame Agnes appears from the garden. On her arm is a wooden bodge full of roses. 1987 J. A. Golding Colonialism i. 3 At the end of the meal my grandfather would address his first words to me: ‘Young Shaver (I think a form of affection) take a bodge (a wooden Kentish basket) and go down to the cellar and bring up some cobnuts and a bottle of port.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). bodgen.2 Chiefly British. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > unskilful action or working > clumsy or bungled work bodge1589 bodgery1592 Paul's work1602 botchery1608 by-work1615 botch1648 hob-job1857 spoil1892 botch-up1915 hack job1918 bodge job1924 bodge-up1959 bodge-up job1994 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet sig. B4v I know a foole that shall so inkhornize you with straunge phrases, that you shall blush at your owne bodges. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Sbozzi, bodges, or bunger-like workes. 1704 J. Addison Let. 10 Mar. (1941) 49 You shoud only Imitate Spencer in his beautys and never in the Rhime of the Verse for there they think it looks more like a Bodge than an Imitation. 2. A clumsy repair, addition, or makeshift solution.In figurative context in quot. 1653. ΚΠ 1653 W. Denny Pelecanicidium iii. ix. 195 Her stilted crazie seeming Lodge Has here a Patch, and there a Bodge, Is lin'd with Adamant within, To keep fierce Storms from breaking in. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Bodge, a botch, a clumsy patch. 1988 D. Nye in Autosport File: Williams 77/2 One major lesson learned was to resist any temptation to make ‘a quick bodge’ in the vague hope it might improve the car. 2015 Daily Dot (Nexis) 28 Sept. The inclusion of emoji onto various platforms is a bit of a bodge.., taking various characters created by people around the world and cramming them into a uniform standard designed to encompass them all. 3. Originally English regional. A spoiled or mismanaged piece of work; a mess; a botch. Frequently in to make a bodge of. ΚΠ 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 37 Dew it kiender tidily now, an dont make a bodge ont. a1895 T. C. Warrington & A. Pope MS Coll. Staffs. Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1898) I. 323/1 Oi set th' journey-man o' puttin a fresh tap on, an e's made a reg'lar bodge on it. 1937 Adelphi Apr. 308 I am not particularly glad when the mechanician makes a bodge of fixing the blade. 2011 Kent & Sussex Courier (Nexis) 28 Jan. 14 I look back at the first thing I made, it's such a bodge but it's still nice because coloured glass is so beautiful. Compounds bodge job n. a piece of work done hastily, clumsily, or unskilfully; a botched or bungled task or undertaking; = botch job n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > unskilful action or working > clumsy or bungled work bodge1589 bodgery1592 Paul's work1602 botchery1608 by-work1615 botch1648 hob-job1857 spoil1892 botch-up1915 hack job1918 bodge job1924 bodge-up1959 bodge-up job1994 1924 Bucks Examiner 7 Mar. 3/1 In rural Essex..the old-dames, when they wished to indicate a job which was done, but ill-done..would say,..‘It's a “bodge” job.’ 1990 Independent (Nexis) 30 Sept. 18 My old plumber came round and said that a complete bodge job had been done. 2000 This is Local London (Nexis) 18 Oct. The council's handling of the entire saga has been a bodge job..followed by a cover-up. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). bodgev. Chiefly British. 1. a. transitive. To put together or construct (something) in a clumsy, unskilful, or careless manner; to cobble or patch together. Chiefly with together, up. ΚΠ 1519 [implied in: W. Horman Vulgaria viii. f. 87v Thou hast but bodchyd and countrefeat latten. (at bodged adj.)]. 1566 T. Heskyns Parl. Chryste iii. xxxiv. f. 356 Hitherto he hath made conferences impertinent and slender: nowe for lacke of soche pelting store, he ys fain to bodge vppe a fewe moo euen with flatt lies. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 55 They..that bungle and bodge vppe wicked verses. 1819 J. Clare Let. Dec. (1985) 23 I have contrived to bodge up a few ‘Songs’ & ‘Ballads’. 1890 Proc. Suffolk Inst. Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. 7 ii. p. xxxi The chancel arch..had been rebuilt—bodged together with some of the old stones, and timber, bricks, &c., in the most heterogeneous and shapeless way. 1917 Trans. Thoroton Soc. 1916 20 83 The alabaster frontal has been chipped and knocked about, and ‘bodged’ together, in a shocking manner, in order to make it fit into the recess. 2002 Western Daily Press (Nexis) 28 Mar. (Late City ed.) 45 [The car] feels as if it's been put together carefully, not bodged from the spares bins of other manufacturers. 2012 @ShaneoKnights 16 May in twitter.com (accessed 30 Apr. 2021) Can someone bodge up a work reference for me please ?? #runoutofideas ΚΠ 1568 T. Harding Detection Sundrie Foule Errours v. f. 301v This testimonie is bodged with your forged Parentheses. 1589 E. Bunny Briefe Answer Quarrels R. P. 98 Otherwise you could not tell, how to bodge in those impertinent complaintes. 1629 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. (ed. 5) xliv. sig. I2 All the actions of his life are like so many things bodg'd in without any naturall cadence, or connexion at all. 2. transitive. To make clumsy, imperfect, or temporary repairs to (something worn, damaged, etc.); to patch up; (sometimes more generally) to repair, mend. Frequently with up.Evidence for the 19th and early 20th centuries is chiefly English regional.figurative in quot. 1578. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [verb (transitive)] > clumsily or in makeshift manner cobble1496 bodge1552 botcha1680 tinker1814 nigger-rig1977 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Bodge or botche olde clothes. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Nii/1 To Bodge, sarcire. 1578 T. White Serm. Pawles Crosse 3 Nov. 1577 47 A disease is but bodged or patched up that is not cured in the cause. 1858 Nottingham Jrnl. 6 Aug. 5/3 At the present time the parish church of Hayton is all but finished, although we cannot but regret that the chancel here is being ‘bodged’ up in a most shameful manner. 1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. (at cited word) I could either bodge the old one up, or make it all new. We must bodge it as well as we can. 1893 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 30 Mar. 6/5 Mr. G. Senior expressed himself in favour of a new Free Library, and condemned any attempt to ‘bodge’ up the present structure. 1960 A. O. D. Claxton Suffolk Dial. 20th Cent. (ed. 2) 20 Bodge, to mend clumsily, or as a temporary emergency. ‘Oi heen't mended it proper, only bodged it.’ 1998 Classic Cars Apr. 71/3 People make a very good living bodging up £1500 cars and selling them for £4000–£5000. 2008 Oxf. Times (Nexis) 15 July Oxford's roads..are in a poor state and you would have thought they could be mended properly and not just bodged. 3. transitive. To spoil (something) through lack of skill or care; to carry out (a task) incompetently; to bungle. Also with up. Cf. earlier bodging n.1 3, and also botch v.1 2. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > be unskilled in [verb (transitive)] > bungle botch1530 bungle1530 mumble1588 muddle1605 mash1642 bumble?1719 to fall through ——1726 fuck1776 blunder1805 to make a mull of1821 bitch1823 mess1823 to make a mess of1834 smudge1864 to muck up1875 boss1887 to make balls of1889 duff1890 foozle1892 bollocks1901 fluff1902 to make a muck of1903 bobble1908 to ball up1911 jazz1914 boob1915 to make a hash of1920 muff1922 flub1924 to make a hat of1925 to ass up1932 louse1934 screw1938 blow1943 to foul up1943 eff1945 balls1947 to make a hames of1947 to arse up1951 to fuck up1967 dork1969 sheg1981 bodge1984 1984 New Scientist 18 Oct. 8/1 The DTI admits it bodged the TV raid, but says it..did at least catch one suspected radio pirate and confiscate some transmitters. 1993 Independent (Nexis) 4 Jan. (Sport section) 24 Andy Walker..bodged a chance from five yards on the stroke of half-time. 2013 @lliamhough13 18 Mar. in twitter.com (accessed 30 Apr. 2021) Somehow work even manage to bodge up a cheese butty! #annoyed This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.11520n.21589v.1519 |
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