wodge

English

Etymology

Probably an alteration of wedge.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /wɒd͡ʒ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /wɑd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɒdʒ

Noun

wodge (plural wodges)

1. (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, chapter 16, in The Lost Middy:

     […] 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, chapter 14, in The Bell Jar, London: Faber & Faber, published 1971:

     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, number 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, 01:18:44 from the start, in Calm With Horses (film), spoken by Hector (David Wilmott):

     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.

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