| 释义 |
widgie
noun
a female teenage delinquent of the “bodgie and widgie” subculture of the 1950s and 60s AUSTRALIA, 1950
Noted for their promiscuity, wild behaviour and revealing clothing. Perhaps a blend of BODGIEThe Pushes used the wet sand-filled stocking as a sadistic outlet–the Widgies of today are victims of the sadistic, persecution of the Gentle Citizens. — Figure and Vigour, 1952 So the Public learned of Bodgies and Widgies, some being so vague on the subject that they talked of “Wodgies”. But they knew they were BAD. — Figure and Vigour, p. 4, 1952 He who dresses well in this country is taken for a madman or called a “bodgie” or “widgie”, what every city man and woman in Czechoslovakia for the past 20 years used to be[.] — Josef Holman, As I See Them, p. 53, 1954 Perhaps you think all those stories about bodgies and widgies are just newspaper stunts. — Weekend, p. 16, 1 June 1957 The performances 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 This joint is the meeting place of the bodgie-widgie mob. Here they all are–the anti-socials, the misfits, the delinks, in a common defiance of the squares. — Colin Johnson, Wild Cat Falling, p. 55, 1965 WIDGIE–A young female hoodlum type, the companion of the BODGIE. — Harvey E. Ward, Down Under Without Blunder, p. 49, 1967 Davo could never figure out whether they reminded him of something from outer space or his old man’s wedding photos, when dad was a bodgie and the old girl a widgie. — Robert G. Barrett, Davo’s Little Something, p. 18, 1992 — David McGill, David McGill’s Complete Kiwi Slang Dictionary, p. 123, 1998 |