mend+clumsily

  • 1cobble — I. v. a. 1. Botch, tinker, patch up, mend clumsily. 2. Bungle, botch, do clumsily, make clumsily. II. v. n. 1. Do cobbler s work, mend shoes. 2. Be a bungler, bungle, botch, do bungling work. III. n. 1 …

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  • 2Bodge — Bodge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bodged}.] To botch; to mend clumsily; to patch. [Obs. or Dial.] [1913 Webster] …

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  • 3Bodged — Bodge Bodge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bodged}.] To botch; to mend clumsily; to patch. [Obs. or Dial.] [1913 Webster] …

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  • 4Bungle — Bun gle, v. t. To make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly; to botch; sometimes with up. [1913 Webster] I always had an idea that it would be bungled. Byron. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 5Kludge — Part of the Miles Glacier Bridge, with a kludgy temporary fix to make the bridge usable after earthquake damage. This article is about the workaround. For the American music magazine, see Kludge (magazine). A kludge (or kluge) is a workaround, a… …

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  • 6Bodger — worthless person; inferior; false; second rate (as a name, receipt, etc.) (obsolete British bodge to patch or mend clumsily) …

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  • 7bodger — Australian Slang worthless person; inferior; false; second rate (as a name, receipt, etc.) (obsolete British bodge to patch or mend clumsily) …

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  • 8cobble — {{11}}cobble (n.) paving stone; worn, rounded stone, c.1600, earlier COBBLESTONE (Cf. cobblestone), probably a dim. of COB (Cf. cob) in some sense. The verb in this sense is from 1690s. {{12}}cobble (v.) to mend clumsily, late 15c., perhaps a… …

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  • 9bodger — /ˈbɒdʒə/ (say bojuh) Obsolete –noun 1. a person who has assumed an alias or who is in some way acting under false pretences. 2. an alias. 3. British a person who makes a mess of something, especially an incompetent tradesman. –adjective 4.… …

  • 10cobble — /ˈkɒbəl/ (say kobuhl) noun 1. a cobblestone. 2. (plural) cob coal. 3. a clumsily completed job of sewing, mending, etc. 4. Geology a rock fragment between 64 and 256 mm in diameter, rounded by erosion. –verb (t) (cobbled, cobbling) 5. to pave… …