"Ian Jackson" wrote in message
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In message , michael adams
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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


"The Oxford English Dictionary Supplement of 1972 has two definitions
for bodger, one is a local dialect word from Buckinghamshire, for
chair leg turner. The other is Australian slang for bad workmanship.[1]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodging

Rodney hails from Australia. Although from quite where exactly,
or under what circumstances he actually subsists, is rather
difficult to establish.

Another possible definition might be to do a competent job with
improvised tools.

That link describes them as "itinerants" when in fact they
weren't. While they might be taken as the woodworking
equivalent of "Tinkers" who were tinsmiths, the latter really
were itinerant as they travelled around the country repairing
pots and pans, among other things.
The bodgers only ever stayed in one place the woods around
High Wycombe.


michael adams

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