"bodge"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/9/2009 10:14 AM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>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.

I do not doubt this (viz. googleplexwhack).  Perhaps I should have
written it as a question:  "Should it be in the OED?"

Joel

Joel

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