wodge

(wɒdʒ)

informal Brit a thick lump or chunk cut or broken off something

[C20: alteration of wedge]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

Wodge, Wadge

a lumpy bundle or mass, 1860.

Translations

pezzo

wodge

[wɒdʒ] N → trozo m grande

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

wodge

n (Brit inf) (of cake, plaster etc) → Brocken m; (ball of paper) → Knäuel nt or m; (of cotton wool) → Bausch m; (of documents, papers) → Stoß m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

wodge

[wɒdʒ] n (Brit) (fam) a wodge of → un grosso pezzo di

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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