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bodgie
noun- anything worthless AUSTRALIA
Also variant “bodgey”. - — Sydney J. Baker, Australia Speaks, 1953
- a male member of an urban youth subculture of the 1950s AUSTRALIA
Now only historical use. “Bodgies” were noted for a peculiar style of dress (shocking for its day) that was in conscious imitation of American youth, including tight trousers, jackets, no ties and having slicked back hair with large sideburns. Their female counterparts were “widgies”. This group was the subject of numerous alarmist media reports about youth deliquency. In origin the term must be related to other senses of “bodgie/bodger”, but exactly how is unclear. The notion put forward in the Australian National Dictionary (1988) that it is a nominal use of “bodgie” as “counterfeit”, referring to clothing made from poor quality cloth passed off as American material, is unsubstantiated by any early evidence. - — Josef Holman, As I See Them, p. 53, 1954
- For one evening when they were having a few quiet beers in a park a bunch of bodgies decided to break up the party. — Weekend, p. 3, 1 June 1957
- For this article shows that the hard central core of all these cults–whether they call themselves “Teddy Boys”, “Zoot-Suit Boys”, or “Bodgies”–lies in a deliberate international criminal conspiracy that also runs the international dope traffic. — Weekend, p. 10, 1 June 1957
- But most young chaps who wear red shirts and call themselves bodgies are not bodgies–in this criminal sense–at all. — Weekend, p. 10, 1 June 1957
- There were Japanese bodgies, perverts, negros, five deaf and dumb call girls sitting at the bar in a row[.] — Les Such, A Yen for Yokohama, p. 114, 1963
- The performance of bodgies and widgies should make anyone look twice at these so innocent thirteen-year-olds. — James Holledge, The Call-girl in Australia, p. 133, 1964
- So far there’s been nothing but a steady stream of bodgies calling in at Billy’s, sitting around hurling spent beer cans at the local cats and swearing at anyone who happens to walk by. — Roy Slaven (John Doyle), Five South Coast Seasons, p. 121, 1992
- [T]hey reminded him of something from outer space or his old man’s wedding photos, when dad was a bodgie and the old girl was a widgie. — Robert G. Barrett, Davo’s Little Something, p. 18, 1992
- a young swing jazz enthusiast US, 1952
- — Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner, Dictionary of American Slang, p. 49, 1960
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