stodge

Late 17th century, of "symbolic" origin, suggested by stuff and podge. Compare stog.

• IPA^(key): /stɒd͡ʒ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɒdʒ

stodge (third-person singular simple present stodges, present participle stodging, simple past and past participle stodged)

1. (transitive) To stuff; to cram.

• stodgy

stodge (countable and uncountable, plural stodges)

1. (British) Heavy, dull, often starchy food, such as a steamed pudding

   The meal was nothing but heavy stodge with no fresh vegetables.

   After weeks of bread and porridge, he longed for something other than stodge.

2. (figurative) Anything dull and bland.

   Critics dismissed the book as academic stodge.

• “stodge”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• godets