Stodge is heavy, thick food that fills you up fast — think white bread, boiled potatoes, suet pudding, a big plate of pasta with nothing light about it. The food is usually soft, starchy and quite plain, and after eating it you feel weighed down rather than satisfied. It is British and informal, and it is a mass noun: you say 'a lot of stodge', never 'a stodge' or 'two stodges'. The feeling behind the word is double. Sometimes it is a complaint — a student writing home about school dinners will say the food is all stodge. But British people also say it fondly, because stodge is warm, cheap and comforting on a cold day; 'I want some proper stodge' is not an insult. The adjective stodgy is much more common than the noun, and stodgy has stretched away from food: a stodgy book, a stodgy speech, a stodgy old company — anything dull, slow and hard to get through. That stretched meaning is never kind. There is also a rare verb, to stodge, meaning to eat heavily or to stuff yourself, but you will almost never meet it.

澱粉類、吃了很有飽足感的食物；油膩厚重的食物。中文沒有完全對應的單字，「澱粉」太科學、「垃圾食物」意思不對——stodge 指的是麵包、馬鈴薯、布丁那種吃完會覺得沉甸甸的家常食物。形容詞 stodgy 用在人或文章上時是「沉悶、無趣」。