bodge

Etymology 1

From Middle English bocchen (“to mend, patch up, repair”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Middle Dutch botsen, butsen, boetsen (“to repair, patch”) (Dutch botsen (“to strike, beat, knock together”)), related to Old High German bōzan (“to beat”), See beat; or perhaps from Old English bōtettan (“to improve, repair”), Old English bōtian (“to get better”). Compare botch. More at boot.

verb

1. (Britain, Ireland) To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair.
   All the actions of his life are like so many things bodged in without any natural cadence or connexion at all. 1865, A book of characters, selected from the writings of Overbury, Earle, and Butler, Thomas Overbury and John Earle
   Some cars were neglected, others bodged to keep them running with inevitable consequences 2003, Laurence Meredith, Original Porsche 356: The Restorer's Guide
   Do not be satisfied with a bodged job, set yourself professional goals and standards 2007, Enric Roselló, The Restoration Handbook
2. To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.
   His father, grandfather and countless generations before him had obtained a living from chair bodging in the solitude of the beech glades. 1978, John Geraint Jenkins, Traditional Country Craftsmen, page 16
   "Bodging is more a curiosity than a valid craft these days," says Don. "But experience in low-tech woodworking is also a good way for the beginner to start getting a feel for turning without having to make a huge investment in a modern lathe." 1989 May–June, John Birchard, “The artful bodger”, in American Woodworker, page 41
   Which is no different than my chair bodging, in that I can go out into the woodland and do my work without having to be tied in to a village shop situation. 2000, Beth Robinson Bosk, The New Settler Interviews: Boogie at the Brink

noun

1. A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair.
   The simple tool above provides a low-tech bodge to help people locate missing friends and family in Christchurch following today's terrible earthquake. 2011-02-22, Cory Doctorow, “Google App to help locate people in Christchurch quake”, in BoingBoing, retrieved 2012-02-05

Etymology 2

Unknown

noun

1. (historical) The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.
2. (South East England) A four-wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also, a homemade go-cart.

adj

1. (slang, Northern Ireland) Insane, off the rails.