"bodge"

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

Arnold is of course right here; my only quibble is with his modifier "often."
I do find urbandictionary useful if definitions there agree with what I find
elsewhere. In addition, the entries can be a kind of early warning system: if
somebody enters an idiosyncratic word/definition, it may well be that someone
else will think of the same thing independently (or even be influenced by the
idiosyncratic entry).

In a message dated 2/9/09 9:14:44 AM, zwicky at STANFORD.EDU writes:


> 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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