false, counterfeit, phoney, sham. Appearing simultaneously with the synonymous 'bodger', these terms must derive from British dialect bodge (to make or mend clumsily or poorly), a variant of 'botch'. Recorded earliest in prison and underworld use it perhaps referred originally to a poorly done quota of work that prisoners had to submit daily AUSTRALIA, 1944.

poorly made or executed; worthless, hopeless AUSTRALIA, 1944