»wodge

In A Certain Justice I came across the "noun, mainly UK informal" wodge (variant wadge): a thick piece or a large amount of something. As in "She cut herself a great wodge of chocolate cake." P.D. James's vocabulary continues to confuse me. Why doesn't she just write "heaps" or "a whole bloody lot" or "great greedy amount" and be done with it?
Nat thinks that wodge is Kiwi slang, adapted for use in the blogosphere to mean "more than a snippet"; Merriam-Webster suggest that the word comes from "wedge", which, given how people use it to describe a goodly amount of some food -- cheese, chocolate, and cake all appear in the citations -- seems plausible.