stodgen.
/stɒdʒ/, U.S. /stɑdʒ/ 1. A thick liquid mixture.
a. Thick, tenacious mud or soil.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > mud > [noun] > thick
slub1587
stodge1825
1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 73 Stodge, any very thick liquid mixture.
1881 C. Whitehead Hops 44 In wet weather the horses feet make a great stodge in ploughing.
b. Food of a semi-solid consistency, esp. stiff farinaceous food; spec. heavy and usually fattening food (often with little nutritional value). colloquial.
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the world > food and drink > food > consistency of food > [noun] > stodgy food
stodge1841
1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua Gloss. Stodge, a thick mess of oatmeal and milk, or any food which is semi-solid.
1874 Mrs. H. Wood Master of Greylands (new ed.) xxiii. 264 The soup I make is not a tasteless stodge that you may almost cut with the spoon.
1891 S. J. Duncan Amer. Girl in London xxiii. 247 Oh, we'd like to [eat] but we can't... We're still in training you know... Fellows have got to train pretty much on stodge.
1963 R. I. McDavid & D. W. Maurer Mencken's Amer. Lang. (new ed.) 296 Pudding implies what we normally call stodge.
1963 Times 13 Feb. 5/2 If the prisoner could not tolerate all the ‘stodge’ he became undernourished.
1976 Milton Keynes Express 25 June 4/5 Remember that no exercise programme will work if not backed by sensible eating patterns and cut out stodge from today.
1980 Times 28 Nov. 3/2 The writers complain of surviving on stodge like potatoes and rice.
2.
a. ‘Stodging’, gorging with food.
b. A heavy, solid meal. Chiefly School slang.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > heavy meal
stodge1894
1894 N. Gale Cricket Songs (new ed.) 32 O Bowler, Bowler, when the Swells all frown And say your non-success is due to Stodge.
1903 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VI. ii. 373/2 Stodge,..a heavy meal.
1904 P. White Tri. Mrs. St. George viii Here was a real live soldier..eating mutton, potatoes, and greens—the usual Thursday stodge!—along with a lot of kids!
c. Food of any kind. slang.
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the world > food and drink > food > [noun]
meateOE
eatOE
foodOE
fodderOE
dietc1230
gista1290
victual1303
victualsa1375
preya1382
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pasturea1398
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viandsc1400
livingc1405
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cates1461
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viander1543
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belly-cheer1579
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chat1584
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keeping1644
vivresa1650
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teething1673
eatablea1687
sunket1686
yam1788
chow-chow1795
keep1801
feed1818
grubbing1819
patter1824
ninyam1826
nyam1828
grubbery1831
tack1834
kai1845
mungaree1846
scoff1846
foodstuff1847
chuck1850
muckamuck1852
tuck1857
tucker1858
hash1865
nosh1873
jock1879
cake flour1881
chow1886
nosebag1888
stodge1890
food aid1900
tackle1900
munga1907
scarf1932
grubber1959
1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang II. 307/2 Stodge,..(popular and thieves), food.
1917 ‘Taffrail’ Sub ii. 72 Cream, jam, mineral waters and all other sorts of ‘stodge’.
1929 F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 133 Stodge, food, generally used in the gunroom only.
1940 M. Marples Public School Slang 167 Stodge (Rugby),..= food—e.g. ‘I've got a box of stodge.’
3. ‘Stodgy’ notions.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > tedious or dull idea(s)
stodge1900
pabulum1973
1900 Daily News 17 Oct. 4/6 His remarks do not seem to us wholly free from a modern kind of ‘platitudinal stodge’, as he calls it, and we fear that ‘platitudinous’ would, of the two, be more correct.
1902 E. Glyn Refl. Ambrosine ix. 199 Avoid stodge..and..that sentimental mawkish dismal point of view, that dramatically wrote up over everything ‘Duty’ with a huge ‘D.’
4. A hard effort; an unfulfilling occupation.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > labour or toil > wearisome or unrewarding
drudgery1548
slavery1551
droiling1607
sluttery1615
under-drudgery1625
drudging1634
droila1644
fag1780
scrubbery1783
stodge1846
buggerlugging1878
1846 J. C. Patteson Let. in C. M. Yonge Life J. C. Patteson (1874) I. iii. 58 Reading books for the second or third time is light work compared to the first stodge at them.
1873 C. M. Yonge Pillars of House II. xxiv. 34 To let him go on here in the stodge is a bit of short-sightedness I can't understand.
5. = stodger n.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [noun] > tedious or dull person
grub1653
noddeea1680
insipid1699
rocker1762
bore1812
Dryasdust1819
insipidity1822
prose1844
bagpipe1850
vampire1862
pill1865
jeff1870
terebrant1890
poop1893
stodger1905
club bore1910
nudnik1916
stodge1922
dreary1925
dreep1927
binder1930
drip1932
douchebag1946
drear1958
drag1959
noodge1968
anorak1984
1922 E. V. Lucas Genevra's Money xxiii. 152 How silly of us to think he was going to be a stodge.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
stodgev.
/stɒdʒ/, U.S. /stɑdʒ/ 1. absolute.1911 J. M. Barrie Peter & Wendy vii. 114 He could eat, really eat, if it was part of a game, but he could not stodge just to feel stodgy.
a. transitive. To fill quite full, to fill to distension. †Also, to stuff in as a filling material (obsolete).
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the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > to bursting
strut1648
stodge1674
burst1697
to stuff out1827
the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > forcibly > cram or stuff in
crama1400
wedge1513
enfarce1564
pester1570
farce1579
stuff1579
ram1582
impact1601
thrum1603
to cramp in1605
crowd1609
impack1611
screw1635
infarciate1657
stodge1674
choke1747
bodkin1793
jam1793
bodkinize1833
pump1899
shoehorn1927
1674 J. Dryden in S. Johnson L.P., Dryden (1781) II. 21 It is a kind of gibblet porridge,..stodged full of meteors, orbs, spheres [etc.].
1685 H. More Paralipomena Prophetica xli. 357 To bring in the Ostrogoths here, is as if one stuffing a Pillow with feathers, should so forget himself, as to stodge in pieces of Brick or Clay.
1790 W. Marshall Agric. Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Midland Counties II. 443 Stodged, filled to the stretch; as a cow's udder with milk.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 299 Stodged, filled to the stretch; crammed full... If things were crushed very closely into a sack, it would be stodged.
b. esp. To gorge with food.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > eat or drink to excess [verb (transitive)] > feed (oneself) to excess
over-quatc1275
glutc1315
fill1340
stuffa1400
aglutc1400
agroten1440
grotenc1440
ingrotenc1440
sorporrc1440
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pegc1450
quatc1450
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gorge1486
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cloy1530
saturate1538
enfarce1543
mast?1550
engluta1568
gull1582
ingurgitate1583
stall1583
forage1593
paunch1597
upbray1598
upbraid1599
surfeitc1600
surcharge1603
gormandize1604
overfeed1609
farcinate1634
repletiate1638
stodge1854
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 299 Sometimes it is applied personally: ‘If you eat all that, you will be stodged full’.
1860 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) 229.
1895 Allbutt in Contemp. Rev. Feb. 220 A ‘City man’..stodges his stomach with rich food three times a day.
c. figurative. Also to stodge off: to repulse by a surfeit.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > [verb (transitive)] > repulse by a surfeit
to stodge off1876
the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [verb (transitive)] > satisfy (needs or desires) > have too much
to stodge off1876
1876 J. Paget Mem. & Lett. (1901) ii. iv. 282 We had begun to feel ‘stodged’: the mediæval art at Florence, especially, had quite filled us.
1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross II. iii. 63 I thought I was a pretty plucky fellow..but I'll show you where I was stodged off.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 11 Dec. 3/1 Alas! it is mostly fiction that gluts the market, ‘stodges’ the reader, and..kills the few living books.
2. dialect. (See quots.)
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > viscosity > make viscous or thicken [verb (transitive)] > make into a paste or plaster
plastera1400
temperc1400
impaste1576
emplasticate1657
stodgea1825
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > into a thick mass
stodgea1825
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Stodge, to stir up various ingredients into a thick mass.
1895 Dial. Notes (Amer. Dial. Soc.) 1 viii. 394 Stodge, to muss or mix up. Ind.
3. passive. To be stuck in the mud, to be bogged. (Cf. stog v.2)
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the world > movement > absence of movement > be rendered immobile [verb (passive)] > be stuck in mud, bog, or sand
stalla1500
gravel1582
swamp1790
mud1854
stog1855
stodge1873
quicksand1875
1873 W. P. Williams & W. A. Jones Gloss. Somersetshire 36 Pendummer Where the Devil was stodged in the midst of zummer.
1902 C. G. Harper Cambr., Ely & King's Lynn Road 54 Enfield Highway..was until quite recently stodged in sloughs.
4. intransitive. To work steadily at (something ‘stodgy’ or tedious). colloquial.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)] > toil > steadily or dully
plod1562
to tug at the (an) oar1612
plot1621
grub1735
grind1855
plough1891
stodge1912
1912 F. M. Hueffer Panel i. iii. 93 I tell you, I'm tired! Used up! I must have comfort, quiet! I can't stodge away any more.
1912 F. M. Hueffer Panel i. iii. 98 I plodded and stodged for just that, and nothing else.
1928 F. M. Hueffer Last Post ii. iii. 259 They ought no longer to go stodging along in penury.
1939 D. Jones Let. 17 Jan. in R. Hague Dai Greatcoat (1980) ii. 89 Writing is odder than painting... One seems to stodge on and scratch out for hours and days and then sometimes..something breaks through.
1959 Listener 29 Oct. 748/2 Poor Dr. Bronowski seems fated to the pas seul... His fellows stodge around, looking severe and sagacious and sound and sensible.
5. To walk or trudge through mud or slush; to walk with short heavy steps. Occasionally transitive, to trudge through (mud). dialect or colloquial.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > heavily > and slowly
trudge1547
ploda1566
sloba1804
stog1818
slump1854
stodge1854
podge1866
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 306 Studging, walking with short heavy steps; always used with the adjunct along. ‘He goes studging along.’
1902 Weekly Free Press & Aberdeen Herald 7 June 3/6 A polissman wha was comin' stodgin' doon the street.
1920 W. Deeping Second Youth xxiii. 195 The ‘Old Man’ and his orderly stodged back again up a waterlogged communication trench.
1929 W. Deeping Roper's Row viii. 83 She had seen the feet of cattle stodging the mire in Melfont.
1929 W. Deeping Roper's Row xiii. 138 A very stout woman..stodged round the grave after the service was over.
Derivatives
stodged adj.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [adjective] > over-fed, gorged, or sated
full of foodOE
surfeitousc1390
repletea1400
satiate1440
fulsome1447
overfed1579
surfeited1584
gorged1594
overgorged1607
gluttoneda1658
saturated1658
throat-full1681
quat?c1730
stalled1740
englutted1814
cloyed1830
stodged1873
1873 W. P. Williams & W. A. Jones Gloss. Somersetshire 36 Stodged adj. stuffed with eating.
1903 Longman's Mag. Oct. 527 The ‘stodged’ schoolboy again, for whom fielding out is a grievance.
ˈstodging adj. and n.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [adjective]
crapulousc1540
surfeiting1588
ingurgitating1620
guzzling1637
crapulent1888
stodging1898
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [noun] > bout of
guzzle1834
burst1849
stodging1898
pigout1978
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [adjective] > over-fed, gorged, or sated > overfeeding or gorging
fulsome1555
overfeeding1621
saturating1684
cloying1808
stodging1898
1898 E. T. Fowler Conc. Isabel Carnaby 124 Admiration is like porridge—awfully stodging, but you get hungry again almost as soon as you've eaten it.
1912 Daily News 31 Dec. 9 There must be no eating when not hungry and no ‘stodging’ between meals.
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