"bodge"

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Feb 8, 2009, at 8:47 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> urbandictionary claims a sense for "bodge" (noun, verb, and adj.)
> that is not in the OED.

urbandictionary has huge numbers of items of very local (and, usually,
ephemeral) use, items that certainly don't belong in the OED.

in addition, the "definitions" given by contributors to
urbandictionary are often untrustworthy, and sometimes fanciful.

arnold

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