heavy filling starchy food, such as steamed puddingsolid indigestible reading matterstodginess nounstodgy adj[from stodge2]
informal, dated to cram (oneself) with food or information He … leaves me to stodge myself with his Times — George Bernard Shaw verb intransinformal, dated to cram oneself with food Peter … could eat, really eat … but he could not stodge just to feel stodgy — J M Barrie [perhaps from stuff2 influenced by podge]