stodge

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

Postecoglou’s brand of attacking football was a sharp contrast to the stodge of Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte but was too easily rumbled by opponents in the second half of the season.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 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

Cake’s the best thing; why need I stodge on bread and butter till I can’t properly ’preciate the cake?

From Etheldreda the Ready A School Story by Charles Horrell

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

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

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

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