Repair clumsily

Usage examples of bodge.

Among us, much of the social judgement of Bodge upon the relations of men to women is the stereotyped opinion of the land.

One of the grotty traders on the Quallheim, little more than a bodged-together raft.

After that, Krupkin showed him a real K-340, not a bodged test article.

At which point they’d realize that the cumulative clock-delay he’d bodged into the Lord Vanek’s fourspace guidance system had screwed the pooch, completely buggering their plan to sneak up on the Festival via a spacelike trajectory.

The planet’s earliest human settlers had barely sorted out a few recognizably successive epochs—Pelagic, Noachic, Nevisian, Corpachian, Strontian—and one or two bold philosophers had just begun to postulate a theory of evolution when the last starship from Earth had arrived with the disheartening news that while the scientists were in principle right, the planet they were standing on had indeed undergone a succession of creations and catastrophes and was in all likelihood the bodged work of gods.

Best to wait until afternoon to ask him about that leave you were thinking of taking or to tell him the news of the latest bodged operation.

No reason why life just should be this endless rolling panorama of bodged friendships, fumbled opportunities, fatuous conversations, wasted days, idiotic remarks and ill-judged, unfunny jokes that just lie on the floor in front of me, flipping about like dying fish?

And he had insisted that the repair must be one hundred per cent - no bodging.