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单词 bodger
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bodgern.1

Brit. /ˈbɒdʒə/, U.S. /ˈbɑdʒər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bodge v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < bodge v. + -er suffix1. Compare earlier botcher n.1 and perhaps also bogger n.
Chiefly British.
1. A tailor; spec. one who carries out repairs, as opposed to one who makes new clothing. Obsolete (English regional (midlands) in later use).In figurative context in quot. 1657.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > mender > [noun]
clouterc1440
maker-up?a1444
botcher1499
repairer?1504
reparationer1520
patcher1528
bodger1538
repareller1546
mender1552
sarcinator1646
vamper1712
piecer1764
renovator1827
repairman1856
fixer?1881
serviceman1905
Mr Fixit1924
fixit man1949
fixit1982
1538 T. Elyot Dict. at Rudiarij They be also bodgers or amenders of old garmentes.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Bodger, botcher, mender, or patcher of olde garmentes.
1565 T. Harding Confut. Apol. Church of Eng. v. xii. f. 263 They that ronne away from vs to your side, be they monkes or friers, tinkers or tapsters, coblers or bodgers.., by and by in your synagoges they be great rabbins.
1657 W. Sprigg Ess. with Brief Adviso's 27 Generation should be nothing but the re-attiring of the first Matter with a new livery..when neither Farriers nor Physitians (who are broken-natured [printed broken-natures] Bodgers) can any longer patch up the Rents of the old garment.
1810 G. Crabbe Borough v. 74 The warmest Burgess wears a Bodger's Coat.
1894 G. F. Northall Folk-phrases Four Counties 37 Near Tamworth, Bodger = tailor.
2. A person who spoils something through lack of skill or care, or who carries out a task incompetently; a clumsy or unskilful worker; a bungler.Chiefly English regional until the late 20th cent.
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a1895 E. Smith MS Coll. Warwicks. Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1898) I. 323/1 He is such a bodger at his work.
1942 H. Williamson Story of Norfolk Farm xlvii. 323 A careless workman is a slobberer or bodger.
2020 Guardian (Nexis) 22 June I don't think this guy—or these people—should be referred to as restorers... Let's be honest: they're bodgers who botch things up. They destroy things.
3. A person who uses an improvised or temporary method of making or repairing something.
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1911 A. N. Lyons Cottage Pie xxviii. 252 If anybody do plumbing, but you cannot rightly call them a plumber; and if anybody do a bit at cabinet-making and joinery, but you cannot really call them a carpenter.., that be what they call a Bodger, sir!
1994 Guardian 16 June (OnLine section) 8/4 If you want to bodge something together in your garage, you'll learn more from Jacobson's friendly bodgers than you would from studying Nasa.
1998 Cycling & Mountain Biking Today Apr. 5 (caption) Zip ties, toestraps and some gaffer tape stored on a tyre lever are all essential bodgers parts for long distance touring.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).

bodgern.2

Brit. /ˈbɒdʒə/, U.S. /ˈbɑdʒər/
Forms: 1900s botcher, 1900s– bodger, 1900s– boger.
Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: bodger n.1
Etymology: Probably a specific use of bodger n.1 (perhaps originally reflecting a negative attitude towards the craft).Compare the mention of the variant botcher in the following early discussion, which may further support a relationship with bodger n.1 (unless it is itself the result of folk etymology):1922 Antiques (Boston) Feb. 74/1 They are called bodgers or botchers, and it may be owing to their rough work that the meaning of that word has been extended.
Originally English regional (chiefly Buckinghamshire).
Originally (more fully chair bodger): a person who makes legs or other components for chairs using a pole-lathe, typically one living and working in the woodland (now chiefly historical). Later sometimes more generally: a person skilled in traditional woodworking, esp. a woodturner.
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1911 G. Eland Chilterns & Vale vi. 137 The purchaser then employs the ‘bodger’ to turn it [sc. a ‘fall’ of beech] into chair-legs.
1911 G. Eland Chilterns & Vale vi. 136 The men who thus work in the woods are called ‘chair-bodgers’.
1921 K. S. Woods Rural Industries round Oxf. ii. i. 102 Most village turners or ‘chair bodgers’ confine themselves to the making of legs which they sell to the factories, mainly at Wycombe.
1999 T. Quinn & P. Felix Last of Line 71 Traditionally pole-latheing was winter work—chair bodgers did other things in summer.
2001 Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. (Nexis) 25 May 6 A wooden xylophone and chime bars made by [a] local bodger.
2008 U. McGovern Lost Crafts 285 The bodgers selected timber from coppiced woodland and usually carried out all the stages of their part of the chair-manufacturing process right there.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).

bodgeradj.n.3

Brit. /ˈbɒdʒə/, U.S. /ˈbɑdʒər/, Australian English /ˈbɔdʒə/
Origin: Either (i) a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Or (ii) formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: bodgie adj.; bodger n.1
Etymology: Either (i) (if the adjective use is primary) an alteration (with suffix substitution: see -er suffix1) of bodgie adj., perhaps after dodger adj. and snodger adj., or (ii) (if the noun use is primary) a specific use of bodger n.1This word (and related words and senses in Australian English) apparently developed during the Second World War.
Australian slang. Now rare.
A. adj.
1. False; fake; counterfeit; fraudulent.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adjective] > feigned, fictitious > of name, character, etc.
feigned1559
fictitiousa1634
fictive1837
bodger1940
1940 Truth (Sydney) 9 June 23/4 Having established beyond doubt that Hobart fans had been sold the greatest ‘bodger’ fight in the history of the game, ‘Truth’ immediately set out to [etc.].
1950 F. J. Hardy Power without Glory viii. 383 This entailed the addition of as many more ‘bodger’ votes as possible.
1954 F. J. Hardy in Coast to Coast 1953–4 76 We stuck together all through the war—we was in under bodger names.
2. Of low standard or quality; inferior, worthless.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > [adjective]
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lowc1175
poor?c1225
feeblec1275
vilea1300
petty1372
unthende1377
secondary1386
petitc1390
unmeeta1393
illa1400
commonc1400
coarse1424
indigent1426
unlikelyc1450
lesser1464
gross1474
naughty1526
inferior1531
reprobate?1545
slender1577
unlikely1578
puny1579
under1580
wooden1592
sordid1596
puisne1598
provant1601
subministrant1604
inferious1607
sublunary1624
indifferent1638
undermatched1642
unworthy1646
underly1648
turncoated1650
female1652
undergraduate1655
farandinical1675
baddishc1736
ungenerous1745
understrapping1762
tinnified1794
demi-semi1805
shabby1805
dicky1819
poor white1821
tin-pot1838
deterior1848
substandard1850
crumby1859
cheesy1863
po'1866
not-quite1867
rocky1873
mouldy1876
low-grade1878
sketchy1878
midget1879
junky1880
ullaged1892
abysmal1904
bodgie1905
junk1908
crap1936
ropy1941
bodger1945
two-star1951
tripey1955
manky1958
schlocky1960
cack1978
wank1991
bowf1994
1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. viii. 156 Bodger, worthless, second-rate. (This term is apparently related to English dialect in which bodge means to botch or work clumsily.)
1948 Daily News (Perth, Austral.) 28 Sept. 2/2 Here's a brief glossary of better-known terms:—..bodger (rotten).
B. n.3
An inferior or inauthentic person or thing (sometimes spec.: see quots. 1948, 1966).Cf. bodgie n.2
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1945 Biscuit Bomber Weekly (Mag. 1st Austral. Air Maintenance Co.) 18 Feb. 3 This when the Bodgers, or sly guys place themselves in the most concealed..places in the line.
1948 Sunday Tel. (Sydney) 14 Mar. (Today section) 4/4 An expressive new word enriched the Australian language at Central Court this week. The word is ‘bodger’. It means a faked receipt.
1966 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. (ed. 2) 292 A faked receipt or false name..is a bodger.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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