What (who) is bodging - definition
TRADITIONAL WOODTURNING CRAFT
Bodge; Bodger; Chair bodger; Chair-bodgering
![[[Polelathe]] in a museum in Seiffen, Germany.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Drechselbank historisch.jpg?width=200 "[[Polelathe]] in a museum in Seiffen, Germany.")
![The Bodger's Hut at [[Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The Bodger's Hut at Amberley Working Museum - geograph.org.uk - 1245569.jpg?width=200 "The Bodger's Hut at [[Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre]]")
bodging
The act of shoving a square peg in a round hole with brute force and ignorance.
Bill was bodging when he spun his wheels around for an hour trying to get his car out of the mud.
Bill was bodging when he spun his wheels around for an hour trying to get his car out of the mud.
bodge
To cobble something together, made from bits and pieces, derived from scrap, etc. - from the TV series Junkyard Wars.
I hit the speed bump and broke the axle on my Honda, so I bodged a new one from some two-by-fours, some duct tape, a tractor pin and my dad's golf clubs.
I hit the speed bump and broke the axle on my Honda, so I bodged a new one from some two-by-fours, some duct tape, a tractor pin and my dad's golf clubs.
bodge
(bodges, bodging, bodged)
If you bodge something, you make it or mend it in a way that is not as good as it should be. (BRIT INFORMAL)
I thought he had bodged the repair.
= botch
VERB: V n
Wikipedia
Bodging
Bodging (full name chair-bodgering) is a traditional woodturning craft, using green (unseasoned) wood to make chair legs and other cylindrical parts of chairs. The work was done close to where a tree was felled. The itinerant craftsman who made the chair legs was known as a bodger or chair-bodger.
Examples of use of bodging
1. Separately, the British man and woman has finally come to realise that they simply do not know how to carry out home maintenace or make–overs without bodging the job.