wodge

[ woj ]

noun

, British Informal.

1. a lump, chunk, or wad.
2. an object having a lumpy, bulgy shape.

wodge

/ wɒdʒ /

noun

1. informal.
   a thick lump or chunk cut or broken off something

Other Words From

• wodgy adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of wodge¹

First recorded in 1905–10; perhaps alteration of wedge

Word History and Origins

Origin of wodge¹

C20: alteration of wedge

Example Sentences

Slater goes on to outline his ideas about what makes great toast — “a thick wodge of golden bread under a pool of melted cheese” and “naan as a soft cushion” — and, spoiler alert: “There are no rules really. The toast should be thick enough to support whatever we put on top of it and it should be hot and freshly made. Other than that, we are surely free to mix and match toasts and toppings at will.”

From Washington Post

Perhaps Sampson’s most telling finding, though, is that parts of the Sappho manuscript were shown in public when they were supposedly still undiscovered in a wodge of industrial cartonnage.

From The Guardian

You want to get up close and personal with each slice – its aroma, its vivid colours – rather than eating it at one prim remove with cutlery or wolfing it down as a fat, folded wodge of indistinguishable ballast.

From The Guardian

Yet still they somehow managed to find a sizeable wodge of cash to build this superfluous viewing platform, a redundant green garnish to join the peninsula’s infrastructural vanity projects.

From The Guardian

Quite what Rees-Mogg’s creepily oversized suits are disguising is unclear, but he had better hope he’s got a wodge of no-confidence letters in there and a plan to manage the resultant chaos, or nanny’s going to have to change the sheets again.

From The Guardian