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Wodge A Definition     "I dont want a bulky wodge of prose, but about double what we have at present." (Ezra Pound, 1913) The word wodge, whose moment can be surmised from its heavy, lumpish telephone, is not particularly common in American usage. It is, however, a wonderful word that ought to be given more(prenominal) recognition. It offers a more vivid description than its synonyms, for example, blob, cluster, or clump. A extremely descriptive word, wodge is developed from a combination of the words potful and wedge, the sound of which evokes images of weight and sedentariness.     The word wodge has sprung from a combination of two other(a) words, wad and wedge, but is vastly more entertaining than either. A wedge is in the main two principal faces of hard material meeting at an intense angle to be used for raising, holding, or splitting an objective lens or also to squish or cram oneself or another object into an ill-fitt ing space in the manner of a wedge. A wad, on the other hand, is a small lump, mass, ball, roll, or bundle of some matter, usually kooky or fibrous, i.e., cotton, wool, straw, cloth, paper, or money. Wodge embodies both of these concepts.      Resting somewhere between wedge, which has a more mathematical, precise, and triangular meaning, and wad, which is crumpled, disorderly, and usually made of paper, wodge seems to be lumpy, u...