codge

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒdʒ

Verb

codge (third-person singular simple present codges, present participle codging, simple past and past participle codged)

1. (transitive) To patch or cobble together; to make hastily and carelessly.
   • 1990, Rosalind Miles, Ben Jonson: his craft and art, page 159:

     […] this it was that branded him as one of the contemporary theatre's journeymen hack 'playwrights', in his own disparaging phrase, ready to turn a hand to anything, and able to codge up a play to order from any materials at hand.