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How to pronounce bodge in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms ball up, blow, bobble, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil
Type of fail, go wrong, miscarry

Examples of bodge

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Government funded schemes always attract charlatons out to make a quick buck out of a bodge job.
From the independent.co.uk
So I bodge something together using all the wrong ones.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
If the bodge works even a little bit, people lose interest in fixing the root cause of the problem.
From the guardian.co.uk
And yet there are plenty of other examples of poor countries that manage to bodge along, misgoverned by corrupt elites.
From the economist.com
You can also run a real bodge-job LED lightbulb by getting a 12V MR16 fitting LED lightbulb and a voltage doubler circuit.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It really is not good enough just to bumble and bodge along every year, wringing your hands and pretending it's someone else's problem.
From the independent.co.uk
I think that unfortunately in this day and age people are impatient and will queue jump if there was an opportunity to bodge in.
From the expressandstar.com
I didn't want to bodge anything up.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Why is our brain a bodge?
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • Botch: make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
  • Bodging is a traditional wood-turning craft, using green (unseasoned) wood to create cylindrical wooden woodturning via a traditional wooden-bed, polelathe, most commonly chair legs and stretcher poles, historically for the Windsor chair manufacturing industry.
  • A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; insane or off the rails
  • A nickname for the country of Cambodia
  • A British term to describe work that is done poorly or with defective materials.
  • V. To repair. "Gimme an hour and I can bodge the thing together near as new."
  • To make a mess of (from botch).