Re: best of the best bodgerissimae
A bodger was actually a skilled craftsman who would turn chair legs and stretchers, often in the forrest on a human powered lathe, mostly from Beech. He would then take these to a chair maker. It has also been used more latterly to a travelling fixer of things made of wood, similar to a tinker who mainly worked metal. Which where the verbs to tinker and to bodge derive from.
On this basis I suspect it was more a case of best tinkerissimae as I would imagine there was very little turning of wood involved.
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