a definition for bodging in contrast to botching

alex16th July 2026 at 3:44am

Bodging is probably the first step in making things. Not to be confused with the art of botching, which is the art of screwing things up, bodging is the art of improvising a working solution using whatever is on-hand. Duct tape comes to mind. A few people seem to possess this as a natural ability, but for the average man, bodging has been suppressed by a sea of experts and professionals. The general consensus is that now you better get an expert opinion before you engage in almost anything; better yet, just pay the expert and let him do it for you. Once this mental constraint has been removed, it becomes possible to bodge.