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bodgery en · NOUN

Etymology

From bodge + -ery.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Clumsy or inelegant work.
    • […] deploying the deceits of 'facadism' (ashlar stone exterior layer with lath and plaster interiors) hiding the most terrible bodgery of poor brickwork, […] 2015, Walter Nigel, Buildings for Mission, page 53:
    • As Andrew, in particular, began to work on renovation and improvement, his talk about this began to be peppered with references to 'bodgery' — 'When I look at it, all I see is bodgery', he says recurrently, with a mixture of exclamation and despair. 2007, Nicky Gregson, Living with Things: Ridding, Accommodation, Dwelling, page 48: