Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bodgery

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bodgery
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Clumsy or inelegant work.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"As Andrew, in particular, began to work on renovation and improvement, his talk about this began to be peppered with references to 'bodgery' — 'When I look at it, all I see is bodgery', he says recurrently, with a mixture of exclamation and despair."
"[…] deploying the deceits of 'facadism' (ashlar stone exterior layer with lath and plaster interiors) hiding the most terrible bodgery of poor brickwork, […]"

Etymology

From bodge + -ery.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: bodge

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does bodgery mean?: Clumsy or inelegant work.
Where does bodgery come from?: From bodge + -ery.

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