Meanings
- uncountableClumsy or inelegant work.
[…] deploying the deceits of 'facadism' (ashlar stone exterior layer with lath and plaster interiors) hiding the most terrible bodgery of poor brickwork, […]
2015, Walter Nigel, Buildings for Mission, page 531 more example
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.
2007, Nicky Gregson, Living with Things: Ridding, Accommodation, Dwelling, page 48
Origin
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bodgery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bodgery
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