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▪ I. bodger, n.1 Obs. or dial.
[f. bodge v. + -er1.]
One who ‘bodges’; a botcher.
1552Huloet, Bodger, botcher, mender, or patcher of olde garmentes. 1567Harding in Jewell Def. Apol. (1611) 500 Be they..Tinkers or Tapsters, coblers or Bodgers. [In modern dialects.]
▪ II. ˈbodger, n.2 Obs. or dial.
[? = badger n.1]
? A travelling dealer, a pedlar.
1736W. Ellis New Exper. Husb. 49 (E.D.S.) The sheep-bodgers or dealers. 1810Crabbe Borough v. Wks. 1834 III. 108 The warmest burgess wears a bodger's coat.
▪ III. bodger, n.3 dial.|ˈbɒdʒə(r)|
In full chair bodger. A local name in Buckinghamshire for a chair-leg turner. Hence (chair-)bodgering, the action or process of chair-leg turning.
1911G. Eland Chilterns & Vale vi. 136 The men who thus work in the woods are called ‘chair-bodgers’. Ibid. 137 The purchaser then employs the ‘bodger’ to turn it [sc. a ‘fall’ of beech] into chair-legs. 1921K. S. Woods Rural Industries round Oxford ii. i. 102 Most village turners or ‘chair bodgers’ confine themselves to the making of legs which they sell to the factories, mainly at Wycombe. 1939D. Hartley Made in England i. 23 The shed for bodgering jobs may be left standing the whole year.
▪ IV. bodger, a. Austral. slang.|ˈbɒdʒə(r)|
Inferior, worthless; (of names) false, assumed.
1945Baker Austral. Lang. viii. 156 Bodger, worthless, second-rate. (This term is apparently related to English dialect in which bodge means to botch or work clumsily.) 1950F. J. Hardy Power without Glory 383 This entailed the addition of as many more ‘bodger’ votes as possible. 1954― in Coast to Coast 1953–4 76 We stuck together all through the war—we was in under bodger names. |
