wodge
English
Etymology
Probably an alteration of wedge.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /wɒd͡ʒ/
Audio (southern England) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /wɑd͡ʒ/
- Rhymes: -ɒd͡ʒ
Noun
wodge (plural wodges)
- (chiefly UK, Ireland, colloquial) A bulk mass, usually of small items, particularly money; a wad
- He paid a wodge of dosh for his new motor from the car dealership.
- 1900, George Manville Fenn, The Lost Middy, Chapter Sixteen,
- […] 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?
- 1963, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, London: Faber & Faber, 1971, Chapter Fourteen,
- I lifted the lid off the second tureen and uncovered a wodge of macaroni, stone-cold and stuck together in a gluey paste.
- 2012, John Sweeney, ‘At War with Ceausescu’, Literary Review, issue 399:
- 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.
- 2020 January 6, Joe Murtagh, Colin Barrett, Calm With Horses, spoken by Hector (David Wilmott), 01:18:44 from the start:
- 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.
Related terms
- wodgy