subs. (common).—1. Food; (2) a heavy meal; and (3) the crumb of new bread (Charterhouse). As verb. = to gorge; TO STUFF (q.v.). Hence STODGY (or STODGE-FULL) = distended, lumpy, crammed; STODGER = (1) a gormandiser; and (2) a penny bun.
1860. G. ELIOT, The Mill on the Floss, i. 5. ‘You don’t know what I’ve got in my pockets’…. ‘No,’ said Maggie. ‘How STODGY they look, Tom!’
Verb. (Tonbridge School).—To hurt.
