I saw an on-line article from the Guardian with the headline “Band of bodgers”. In my experience, a bodger is an itinerant chair-leg turner, a definition that is reinforced at The World Wide Words Website. Some years ago I met Don Webber, a genuine Welsh bodger, at a woodworking show in Chicago. He travels about with a spring-pole lathe making chairs for people right on the spot.

So why is the word bodger used in the Guardian headline about broadband cable?

Thanks,

      - Mark

NB: Other “yanks” may find the World Wide Words site an interesting resource.