Obs. or dial. [An altered form of BOTCH v.; cf. grudge from grutch.]
1. trans. To patch or mend clumsily.
1552. Huloet, Bodge or botche olde clothes.
1570. Levins, Manip., 156. To Bodge, sarcire.
1870. [in Leicestersh., Nth. Lincolnsh., Shropsh., and other dial. Glossaries].
2. To bodge up: to put together clumsily; to botch up, to do or make up in a clumsy fashion.
1578. T. White, Serm. St. Paules Cross, 33. To bodge up a house which will never abide the trial. Ibid., 47. A disease is but bodged or patched up that is not cured in the cause.
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T., 55 b. They … that bungle and bodge vppe wicked verses.
1881. Daily News, 31 Aug., 2/2. Gaps bodged up by the rudest of post and pole barriers.
