STODGE


Meaning of STODGE in English

I. ˈstäj verb

( -ed/-ing/-s )

Etymology: origin unknown

transitive verb

1.

a. : to stuff full especially with food

the young will … be stodged with tea and buns — Mollie Panter-Downes

b. : to more than satisfy : satiate

leaves me to stodge myself with his Times — G.B.Shaw

2. : to mix or stir up together

all they ever do is stodge some old jello and fruit

intransitive verb

1. : to trudge through or as if through muck and mire : tramp clumsily and heavily

ought no longer to go stodging along in penury — F.M.Ford

2. : gorge

he could eat … but he could not stodge — J.M.Barrie

II. noun

( -s )

1. : a thick filling food (as oatmeal or stew)

2. : something resembling stodge: as

a. : dull stupid ideas

b. : unimaginative tedious literary works

the poor reading public soaked in life-long stodge — Sydney (Australia) Bulletin

3. : a slow plodding person

he's such a stodge — Robertson Davies

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.