Bodge vs. Bowge

Bodgeverb

(British) To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.

Bodgeverb

To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.

Bodgenoun

A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.

Bodgenoun

(historical) The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.

Bodgenoun

(South East England) A four-wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also, a homemade go-cart.

Bodgeadjective

Insane, off the rails.

Bodgenoun

A botch; a patch.

Bodgeverb

To botch; to mend clumsily; to patch.

Bodgeverb

See Budge.

Bowgeverb

(intransitive) To bulge or swell out.

Bowgeverb

(transitive) To cause to leak.

Bowgeverb

To swell out. See Bouge.

Bowgeverb

To cause to leak.