bodge
Definitions, pronunciation, related words, and community validation from players who tested this word in Spelling Bee.
Community validation
Did you try this word? Vote to let us know if it was accepted or not.
Spelling Bee Profile
When bodge helps
Base Score
5
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
5
B D E G O
Two-Letter Start
BO
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
GE
Check this pattern late
- 5 letters
- 5 unique letters
- BO start
- GE ending
Try it when
- bodge is worth 5 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 5 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include b, d, e, g, o plus any remaining hive letters.
- The GE ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the BO start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 1 published Daily snapshot.
Pronunciation
noun
A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.
verb
To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.
"All the actions of his life are like so many things bodged in without any natural cadence or connexion at all. — (A book of characters, selected from the writings of Overbury, Earle, and Butler, Thomas Overbury and John Earle, 1865)"
verb
To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.
noun
The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.
noun
(South East England) A four-wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also, a homemade go-cart.
adjective
Insane, off the rails.