bodgy
⇨ bodgy; bodgie
1. adjective
1
false, counterfeit, phoney, sham. Appearing simultaneously with the synonymous 'bodger', these terms must derive from British dialect bodge (to make or mend clumsily or poorly), a variant of 'botch'. Recorded earliest in prison and underworld use it perhaps referred originally to a poorly done quota of work that prisoners had to submit daily AUSTRALIA, 1944.
2
poorly made or executed; worthless, hopeless AUSTRALIA, 1944
2. verb
to conceal someone or something AUSTRALIA, 1968