Someone who is over-confident when it comes to fixing something and usually creates a much larger problem. They will also blame it on an unrelated issue after messing it up.
Brad: "I can fix the toilet easily"
George: "Ok mukka"
5 mins
George: "What have you done you have made it worse. You are such a bodger!"
Brad: "Vibrations init"
1. Anyone who creates objects (machines, vehicles, buildings , etc.) from a mishmash of found or improvised materials
2. An expert in bodging: bodge
3. An unorthodox hobbyist or artist whose body of work has been hobbled together from garbage or materials used in ways that deviate from their intended pupose
Every bodger knows that PVC pipe and duct tape are two most important resources on Earth.
You can commonly find bodgers in their natural habitat: hardware stores, dumpsters, and junkyards.
A person who lives in a mobile hut in the woods, cuts down trees then turns them into chair legs using string lathes. Originates from South Bucks where bodgers used to supply High Wycombe with wood for the furniture industry.
1. A person who has an unusual amount of arrogance that can never be subsided with real facts.
2. A person in denial of the truth.
After having showed my bodger-headed friend that automatic transmissions use flex plates he still denies the existence of a flexplate because he "knows" better.
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!