| 单词 | bodged-up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbodged-up Put together or constructed in a clumsy or unskilful manner; cobbled together. Later also: poorly executed, bungled. Also bodged-up. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > unskilled in art or craft > putting together clumsily > clumsily put together cloutedc1380 bodged1519 botched1537 tinkerly?1576 tinker-like1596 cobbled1798 botchy1843 bodgie1905 haywire1905 bodgied1974 bodgied-up1988 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria viii. f. 87v Thou hast but bodchyd and countrefeat latten. 1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. 12v With bodged verses to delite the eares of fooles. 1638 H. Rogers Protestant Church Existent xxiii. 166 Unlesse you had thought as the Boy did by his bodged verses, that what you wrote would never be read. 1922 Electrical Rev. 27 Jan. 112/2 In the meantime we must put up with the chaos and the ‘bodged-up’ jobs which have to be made on account of the congestion. 1972 Trade & Industry (H.M.S.O.) 2 Nov. 225/2 That..is what the country wants. It doesn't want a bodged-up deal that gives everybody apparent satisfaction but, in fact, is spurious. 2003 Observer (Nexis) 23 Mar. (Mag.) 14 She was on sick leave..for several months, after a bodged operation on a septic tooth. < as lemmas |
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