"bodge"

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:53 AM -0500 2/9/09, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>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).

But there's also the always reliable thumbs-up/thumbs-down diagnostic...

LH

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>In a message dated 2/9/09 9:14:44 AM, zwicky at STANFORD.EDU writes:
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>>  On Feb 8, 2009, at 8:47 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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>>  > urbandictionary claims a sense for "bodge" (noun, verb, and adj.)
>>  > that is not in the OED.
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>>  urbandictionary has huge numbers of items of very local (and, usually,
>>  ephemeral) use, items that certainly don't belong in the OED.
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>>  in addition, the "definitions" given by contributors to
>>  urbandictionary are often untrustworthy, and sometimes fanciful.
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>>  arnold
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