In "The Piano Factory", a novel by Jonathan Davies, I came across
another derivation for a Bodger as someone who knocks things up in a
makeshift way. Bodger's according to Davies was a firm that made cheap
beech furniture.

Ring any bells?

Andre Jute
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. --H.H.Munro
("Saki")(1870-1916)

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