stodge

stodge
/stoj/, v., stodged, stodging, n.
v.t.
1. to stuff full, esp. with food or drink; gorge.
v.i.
2. to trudge: to stodge along through the mire.
n.
3. food that is particularly filling.
[1665-75; orig. uncert.; in some senses perh. b. stoff (earlier form of STUFF) and GORGE]

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