bodgery
nounEtymology From bodge + -ery.
1
Clumsy or inelegant work.
- As Andrew, in particular, began to work on renovation and improvement, his talk about this began to be peppered with references to 'bodgery' — 'When I look at it, all I see is bodgery', he says recurrently, with a mixture of exclamation and despair.2007, Nicky Gregson, Living with Things: Ridding, Accommodation, Dwelling, page 48:
- […] deploying the deceits of 'facadism' (ashlar stone exterior layer with lath and plaster interiors) hiding the most terrible bodgery of poor brickwork, […]2015, Walter Nigel, Buildings for Mission, page 53: