"bodgery" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: bodge + -ery Etymology templates: {{suf|en|bodge|ery}} bodge + -ery Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} bodgery (uncountable)
  1. Clumsy or inelegant work. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-bodgery-en-noun-21oAAH~9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ery

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          "ref": "2007, Nicky Gregson, Living with Things: Ridding, Accommodation, Dwelling, page 48",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2015, Walter Nigel, Buildings for Mission, page 53",
          "text": "[…] deploying the deceits of 'facadism' (ashlar stone exterior layer with lath and plaster interiors) hiding the most terrible bodgery of poor brickwork, […]",
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