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Definition of Podge
1. n. A puddle; a plash.
Definition of Podge
1. Noun. (informal) a fat person ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Podge
1. a fat and flabby thing [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Podge
Literary usage of Podge
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Under Both Flags: A Panorama of the Great Civil War, as Represented in Story edited by George M Vickers (1896)
"I's jest come to ax you something young massa," answered podge, ... Take you
along with me, podge ! " repeated John, looking at him in surprise. ..."
2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1882)
"No, my son," said Mrs. podge, shaking her head. " You sha' n't take them all.
That would be as bad as robbing the fatherless. 1 know they 're worth a great ..."
3. A Treatise on the System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law: Including the by John Henry Wigmore (1915)
"And an important reason for this failure is the hodge-podge use by one State
Court of the decisions of other State Courts. Except in four or five States, ..."
4. Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy by Stephen Leacock (1915)
"... Mr. podge HOW are you, podge?" I said, as I sat down in a leather armchair
beside him. I only meant "How-do-you-do ?" but he rolled his big eyes ..."
5. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford by Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham (1891)
"Though they must have soon palled your stomach, never was such an insipid entremets
dished up by a gentleman confectioner. Mr. Tickell's hodge-podge of ..."
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