stodge
8.6
Heavy, filling food like potatoes or bread that usually tastes bland
- noun
- /stɒdʒ/
- UK
:
comida pesada
- After a long day, I enjoyed a hearty meal of stodge that filled me right up.
Examples
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The traditional dish was a stodge of potatoes and bread, perfect for a cold winter night.
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Many people find that stodge like pasta and rice can be too heavy for a light lunch.
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-You need a big-stodge piss.
Synonyms
8.1
Filling plain food that is not pleasant to eat and makes you feel tired
focuses on starchy, bland qualities rather than just being unrefined
Compounds
How Filling
Surface Forms
Etymology
Stodge is related to stodgy, a word for food that is heavy and filling. A helpful way to remember it is to picture food that 'sits heavy' in your stomach and just fills you up, often bland and starchy, so stodge means heavy, filling food.