bodge vs kludge

bodge

noun
  • A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair. 

  • A four-wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also, a homemade go-cart. 

  • The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge. 

verb
  • To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger. 

  • To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; mend, patch up, repair. 

adj
  • Insane, off the rails. 

kludge

noun
  • Any construction or practice, typically crude yet effective, designed to solve a problem temporarily or expediently. 

  • An amalgamated mass of unrelated parts. 

  • An improvised device, typically crudely constructed to test the validity of a principle before doing a finished design. 

  • A badly written or makeshift piece of software; a hack. 

verb
  • To build or use a kludge. 

How often have the words bodge and kludge occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )