stodge
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Full-back Ruben Love broke the stodge with a brilliant step past two Welsh forwards for a fine individual try that underlined his promise.
From Barron's ● Nov. 22, 2025
Crystal Palace have been transformed from the dull stodge of the final days of Roy Hodgson to exciting, attacking football under Oliver Glasner.
From BBC ● May 20, 2024
It hopes banning the shift will lead to more hits, more action and less stodge.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2023
Plenty of the visitors’ more elaborate approach play simply ran aground on the stodge, though their quality still comfortably eclipsed that offered by Maccabi.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 24, 2015
And there, underneath all this fluttering and tossing and differences, there were your legs going on just as dumb and steady as ever, stodge, stodge, stodge!
From The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Why, you don't mean to say, Deakin, that you have been stodged by G. Smith, Esquire?
From Plays of William E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson by William Ernest Henley
The power of thinking for herself hadn't been educated out of her; she had not been stodged with other people's—mostly dead people's—thoughts, therefore she had room for her own.
From The Purple Heights by Marie Conway Oemler
Why, you don’t mean to say, Deakin, that you have been stodged by G. Smith, Esquire?
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Robert Louis Stevenson
Tall and well made, Lontaine had the good colour of men who care enough for their bodies to keep them keen and clean of the rust that comes of indoor stodging.
From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Louis Joseph Vance
Though Jack stuck to his tackle like wax, Bell and me was soon stodging like winkles; that gal did make play with the snacks.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93. July 30, 1887 by
