Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any thick, satisfying food; a stiff, thick mass of a semi-liquid nature.
- noun Thick, slimy mud; a wet, muddy condition.
- noun A fat, thick-set person; a deformed person.
- To make heavy, full, and stupid by cramming with surfeiting or coarse food.
- To mix into a thick, liquid mass; stir up.
- To walk with short, heavy steps; walk with the feet sticking in mud; stick fast in mud.
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- verb transitive To stuff.
- noun UK heavy, dull food, typically those based on starches
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun heavy and filling (and usually starchy) food
Etymologies
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Examples
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The day was marked too, by a grant feast of "stodge," doughboys, and jam, stodge being a delicacy extemporised for the occasion, consisting of "flour boiled with water to the consistency of paste, with some small pieces of raw meat thrown into it"!!
Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland Frank Jardine 1880
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Is sticky toffee pudding the perfect marriage of stodge and sweetness, or does the name promise more than the dish delivers?
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The combination of spice and stodge is simply unbeatable.
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They're bored with stodge, with the same old stuff over and over again, and they want writers to produce anti-stodge.
Progress Walter Jon Williams 2010
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Yet despite a third-act plunge into compromised stodge (which is unsurprising considering its star names), there's some surprisingly edgy humour at work in this darker-than-expected comedy from German-born writer-director Derrick Borte.
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At least Wood seems to realize that nobody produces stodge on purpose.
Progress Walter Jon Williams 2010
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Northern IrelandThe Ulster FryThe great British breakfast can be a thing of beauty, but is all too often a plate of stodge floating in grease.
Insider's guide to the best British food, and where to find it 2010
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Now to sort out the stodge part to start all over again.
Mosh Potatoes Steve “Buckshot” Seabury 2010
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Now to sort out the stodge part to start all over again.
Mosh Potatoes Steve “Buckshot” Seabury 2010
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Our ancestors might have preferred meat, bacon and wódka, but nowadays is just deep-fried yummy stodge.
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