Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a thick, chunky, dense lump.

1860		All Year Round 28 July 368/2: The unhappy children [Blue-coat boys] in their play-hour are compelled [...] to turn their skirts up and gird them in a great hot wadge about their loins .
1913		E. Pound Letter 7 Nov. in Paige (1971) 25: I don’t want a great wadge of prose, but about double what we have at present .
1922		Chambers’s Jrnl Dec. 797/1: A ‘wodge’ in his left breast-pocket .
1958		C. Lee diary 6 Nov. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 174: He flogged the sodding aerials [...] he’s got this big wodge of rupees.
1974		Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 56: He takes a wodge of the margarine.
1986		F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 261: You finally got that great wodge written, did you?
1999		Indep. 30 Nov. 13: Fayed aide tells of ‘wodge of cash’ for Hamilton.
2000		N. Griffiths Grits 463: Thir’s a wodge uv gum in Colm’s gob tha size avver bleedin tennis ball.
2005		H. Mantel Beyond Black 208: That’s the one. Always got a wodge in his wallet.
2012		J. Fagan Panopticon (2013) 91: I yank off a wadge of bog-roll.
2014		D. MacShane Prison Diaries 353: A prison officer brings up a wodge of mail.

2. (Irish) a thick slice of bread.

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