stodge

[ stoj ]

verb (used with object)

, stodged, stodg·ing.

1. to stuff full, especially with food or drink; gorge.

verb (used without object)

, stodged, stodg·ing.

1. to trudge:

   to stodge along through the mire.

noun

1. food that is particularly filling.

stodge

/ stɒdʒ /

noun

1. heavy filling starchy food
2. dialect.
   baked or steamed pudding
3. a dull person or subject

verb

1. to stuff (oneself or another) with food

Word History and Origins

Origin of stodge¹

1665–75; origin uncertain; in some senses perhaps blend of stoff (earlier form of stuff ) and gorge ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of stodge¹

C17: perhaps a blend of stuff + podge

Example Sentences

I ken bear a good big blow, but to stodge along every day the same dull round would drive me crazed!

From Project Gutenberg

How is one to keep such a piece of quicksilver as you in a state of placid stodge!

From Project Gutenberg

If she had her own way she would throw the books into the fire, as tiresome stodge.

From Project Gutenberg

No harm done; but to let him go on here in the stodge is a bit of short-sightedness I can't understand.

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It was for the good of Felix, and everyone else, that they should not all hang about at home in the stodge and mire.

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Related Words

• gallop
• plod
• ramble
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• slog
• traipse
• trample
• trudge