On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 at 10:13:19 -0500, the pickle queried:
>At 14:56 +0000 on 02/11/02, Stuart Bell wrote:
>
>>A wodge - a 'bundle' 'collection' - as in 'a wodge of brochures on the
>>new G5 iMacs'.
>
>Anyone care to elaborate on the etymology of *that* one?
OK, pickle, you asked for it!
According to the OED (Oxford English Dictionary, for the unlettered among
you), the following:
<bold>wadge</bold> dial. 'A large loose bundle' (Eng. Dial. Dict.)
1860: The unhappy children [Blue-coat boys] ... are compelled ... to turn
their skirts up and gird them in a great hot wadge about their loins.
1862: That monstrous wadge of a dressing gown.
<bold>wodge</bold> [? Vulgar alteration of wedge: cf wedge. sb. 4] A lumpy
protuberant object. Hence <bold>wodgy</bold> solid, bulky.
1907: Not a London thin-bread-and-butter tea, but a great wodgy six-sliced
repast.
1922: A 'wodge' in his left breast-pocket.
<bold>wedge</bold> {about a paragraph of etymological text and characters.
Gist is that from Common Teutonic and Old High German, the term refers to a
wdge-shaped object.} ... <sb. 4> A lump or cake of any solid substance
{there follow usage citations from 1577 to 1833}
I wish I could reproduce all the lexical characters from the etymology of
'wedge', but you'll just have to find your own copy of the OED to read it
in the original.
Sp00ky
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