In message , michael
adams writes




Bodging use to mean using a high level of skill to make
highly practical objects using a very restricted range of
tools. Unfortunately those skills didn't necessarily
incorporate very much business sense and so they never
got rich as a result.

It's only latterly that its come to mean making a Horlicks
of something.

Only by those who really mean 'botch'. There's a world of a difference
between the two
--
Ian