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budgie noun- a budgerigar, a small parrot native to inland Australia and a common cage bird AUSTRALIA, 1935
- a talkative man, especially one of small stature; a smalltime police-informer UK
From a passing similarity to a budgerigar’s characteristics. The television drama Budgie, 1971–72, starred Adam Faith as the epitome of all of the above definition. It is difficult to tell whether the television programme created or popularised this usage. - — David Powis, The Signs of Crime, 1977
- the time UK, 1970
Used by miners, usually in the form of a question. - [U]sed only since the introduction of Pakistani labour. “Budgie” is a corruption of “Baje”, a transliteration from the Urdu. — W. Forster, Pit Talk, around 1970
- a hippie who moved back to the land in Slocan Valley,
British Columbia CANADA - — Tom Parkin, WetCoast Words, p. 21, 1989
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