Dictionary entry
Wodge
Pronunciation: /wɒdʒ/
Pronunciation
/wɒdʒ/
Myanmar Meaning
အတုံးအခဲ။
Definition
wodge /wɒdʒ/ n ~ (of sth) ( Brit infml ) တစ္ထပ္ႀကီး၊ တစ္ေထာႀကီး စသည္။ a thick wodge of ten-pound notes.
Examples
- ‘The gym thing then gets wrapped up in a big
- pulsating ball of guilt and shame
- and I end up hiding my membership card behind a wodge of Tesco receipts.’
- ‘The price includes tasting lots of things
- a glass of wine and a wodge of recipes to take away.’
- ‘No detail is spared and the squeamish can count on skipping huge wodges of forensic jargon
- which is no bad thing.’
- ‘When I took out a wodge of building society cash the other day to stash in that account I hadn't used
- I kept one of the £50 notes to have and to hold
- because it's been years since I've handled one.’
- ‘Alright
- there are great wodges of London without the benefit of decent overground rail services to use as alternatives.’
- ‘I now work three days of the week from home
- but I still bring in the biggest wodge of sales for the company.’
- ‘This morning he received a wodge of papers he had been requesting for some time. He gave me instructions to provide a briefing note.’
- ‘McLeish is one of those people that
- unless he's got a large wodge in his pocket
- he won't leave the house.’
- ‘No wonder her work is cutting through the stale
- stodgy world of Scottish desserts like a red hot knife through a wodge of sticky toffee pudding.’
- ‘All too often we serve up great wodges of congealed gloop
- which even the feeble apology ‘But it's meant to be sticky rice’ fails to excuse.’
- ‘There can surely be no better way to eat caramel than freshly cut from one of the great wodges sitting on these tables.’
- ‘Just looking at that yard or more of succulent flesh is enough to get my juices going
- and biting into a roll crammed with shredded pork
- sage stuffing and a great wodge of crackling is
- I've decided
- one of the great joys in life.’
- ‘Another of my winning bids on eBay was for a whole wodge of nearly 100 postcards featuring deer and antelope.’
- ‘I was positioned on a polling station with a wodge of leaflets to hand out.’
- ‘For the first time
- the Super Furry Animals had access to a huge wodge of major - label money.’
- ‘And being a computer-head
- Norman has very thoughtfully stuck huge wodges of his library up on the web for all to see.’
- ‘You can pick up wodges of stuff for next-to-nothing.’
- ‘That is why I am very pleased that the government's response supports our argument that
- while there are many people prepared to have a go
- there are
- in reality
- no great wodges of cash to reward trivial claims.’
- ‘Behind the glitzy wodge of luxury apartments and refurbished houses
- 35% of the site has been given to social housing: cheap flats for renting or joint ownership
- sitting cheek by jowl with ritzier neighbours.’
- ‘Just this year came the news that a big wodge of Tolkien manuscript had turned up in a carton in the Bodleian Library.’