wodge

plural wodges

1. IrelandUKcolloquialA bulk mass, usually of small items, particularly money; a wad

   He paid a wodge of dosh for his new motor from the car dealership.

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   […] if Eben comes to me with that there hankychy and slips a big wodge of hard Hamsterdam ’bacco and a square bottle o’ stuff as hasn’t paid dooty into my hands in the dark some night, what am I to do?

   1900, George Manville Fenn, chapter 16, in The Lost Middy

   I lifted the lid off the second tureen and uncovered a wodge of macaroni, stone-cold and stuck together in a gluey paste.

   1963, Sylvia Plath, chapter 14, in The Bell Jar, London: Faber & Faber, published 1971

   Bad food, bad drinks, no decent pubs, no laughter in public, and dodgy money-changers hissing that communism was shit and who then disappeared, leaving us with wodges of worthless notes.

   2012, John Sweeney, ‘At War with Ceausescu’, Literary Review, number 399

   MAIRE MIRKIN (played by Brid Brennan):”Sit down please the both of you. You’ve intruded right into the middle of our nightcap, young man. I was just about to serve a toddy to Hector and myself. Can I fix you one?”. ARM (played by Cosmo Jarvis): A wha…? HECTOR: Do, dear, yeah. And, um (clicks tongue) cut us a few wodges of brack while you’re at it.

   2020 January 6, Joe Murtagh, Colin Barrett, 01:18:44 from the start, in Calm With Horses (film), spoken by Hector (David Wilmott)