wodge

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
11
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/wɒd͡ʒ/ (UK)
See all 2 pronunciations
/wɒd͡ʒ/ (UK) · /wɑd͡ʒ/ (US)

Definition of wodge

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (Ireland, UK, 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.”
    “[…] 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?”
    “I lifted the lid off the second tureen and uncovered a wodge of macaroni, stone-cold and stuck together in a gluey paste.”
    “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.”
    “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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Etymology

Probably an alteration of wedge. Compare wad.

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