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bludge | bludged |

As verbs the difference between bludge and bludged

is that bludge is (australia|obsolete|slang) to live off the earnings of a prostitute while bludged is (bludge).

As a noun bludge

is (australia|new zealand|slang) the act of bludging.

bludge

English

Noun

(-)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) The act of bludging.
  • * 2007 , Anne Barry, Playing with Fire , page 136,
    • A friend offered him a job working as a handyman in his carpet factory – a Mr Fix-it. Effectively off the bludge and back on track.
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Easy work.
  • * 1997 , Wendy Morgan, Critical Literacy in the Classroom: The Art of the Possible , page 145,
    • Oh, my name is Gecko and I just thought the whole unit was a bludge , sometimes it got really boring. But like I said I could just fall asleep and let my group members do all the work. And still almost pass.
  • * 2011 , Irini Savvides, Sky Legs , unnumbered page,
    • ‘Seriously, you?ve got sheep at school?’ I said.
    ‘Yeah, heaps of kids here do Ag. Reckon it?s a big bludge , like drama.’

    Synonyms

    * (easy work) doddle

    Verb

    (bludg)
  • (Australia, obsolete, slang) To live off the earnings of a prostitute.
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To not earn one's keep, to live off someone else or off welfare when one could be working.
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To avoid one's responsibilities; to leave it to others to perform duties that one is expected to perform.
  • * 1999 , Tony Shillitoe, Joy Ride , page 64,
    • The second last Thursday in first term of Year Nine, Jason and I bludged' school for the first time together. It wasn't Jason's first time. He ' bludged school regularly, but I never used to miss days unless I was really sick.
  • * 2002 , , Anne Gray (editor), The Diaries of Donald Friend , Volume 1, page 343,
    • One of the mess orderlies had consistently bludged on the rest of us all day.
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To do nothing, to be idle, especially when there is work to be done.
  • * 1967 , , Parliamentary Debates , page 3164,
    • We had the member for Piako saying as recently as last year, when dealing with social security benefits and increases, “I feel myself that when we have able-bodied men and women who would bludge and draw the pension, there is something wrong.”
  • * 1998 , Marion Halligan, Rosanne Fitzgibbon, The gift of story: Three decades of UQP short stories , page 96,
    • Now, you get back out there and you bludge ! I don't want to see anyone working, OK? I don't want to see any pick-axes, any hammers, or nothing.
  • * 2004 , John Smyth, Robert Hattam, et al., ‘Dropping Out,’ Drifting Off, Being Excluded: Becoming Somebody Without School , page 53,
    • I mean, school?s like a job. If you work for it you get your grades; if you work your hours you get your money. But if you bludge, you don't get money; if you bludge you don't get any grades. That's something that I didn't realize when I was young.
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To take some benefit and give nothing in return.
    • Can I bludge a cigarette off you?
  • * 1983 , , The Unknown Great Australian and other psychobiographical portraits , page 105,
    • Gabriel was a classic bludger. He was a drop-out in the very modern sense of the word. The Rossettis were anything but well-heeled. Solid old brother William kept the show on the road. Gabriel bludged' on the family. He ' bludged on his mates.
  • * 2004 , Gillian Cowlishaw, Blackfellas, Whitefellas, and the Hidden Injuries of Race , page 135,
    • Now an adult with his own family, this man has become conscious of different norms among his children's white friends, and that whites often see sharing as bludging .

    Synonyms

    * (live off someone else) freeload, sponge * (sense, avoid one's responsibilities) shirk * (be idle) lounge * (take without giving back) cadge, scrounge

    Related terms

    * bludger

    Synonyms

    * (do nothing) idle, laze, lounge

    Anagrams

    * *

    bludged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (bludge)

    • bludge

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) The act of bludging.
  • * 2007 , Anne Barry, Playing with Fire , page 136,
    • A friend offered him a job working as a handyman in his carpet factory – a Mr Fix-it. Effectively off the bludge and back on track.
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Easy work.
  • * 1997 , Wendy Morgan, Critical Literacy in the Classroom: The Art of the Possible , page 145,
    • Oh, my name is Gecko and I just thought the whole unit was a bludge , sometimes it got really boring. But like I said I could just fall asleep and let my group members do all the work. And still almost pass.
  • * 2011 , Irini Savvides, Sky Legs , unnumbered page,
    • ‘Seriously, you?ve got sheep at school?’ I said.
    ‘Yeah, heaps of kids here do Ag. Reckon it?s a big bludge , like drama.’

    Synonyms

    * (easy work) doddle

    Verb

    (bludg)
  • (Australia, obsolete, slang) To live off the earnings of a prostitute.
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To not earn one's keep, to live off someone else or off welfare when one could be working.
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To avoid one's responsibilities; to leave it to others to perform duties that one is expected to perform.
  • * 1999 , Tony Shillitoe, Joy Ride , page 64,
    • The second last Thursday in first term of Year Nine, Jason and I bludged' school for the first time together. It wasn't Jason's first time. He ' bludged school regularly, but I never used to miss days unless I was really sick.
  • * 2002 , , Anne Gray (editor), The Diaries of Donald Friend , Volume 1, page 343,
    • One of the mess orderlies had consistently bludged on the rest of us all day.
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To do nothing, to be idle, especially when there is work to be done.
  • * 1967 , , Parliamentary Debates , page 3164,
    • We had the member for Piako saying as recently as last year, when dealing with social security benefits and increases, “I feel myself that when we have able-bodied men and women who would bludge and draw the pension, there is something wrong.”
  • * 1998 , Marion Halligan, Rosanne Fitzgibbon, The gift of story: Three decades of UQP short stories , page 96,
    • Now, you get back out there and you bludge ! I don't want to see anyone working, OK? I don't want to see any pick-axes, any hammers, or nothing.
  • * 2004 , John Smyth, Robert Hattam, et al., ‘Dropping Out,’ Drifting Off, Being Excluded: Becoming Somebody Without School , page 53,
    • I mean, school?s like a job. If you work for it you get your grades; if you work your hours you get your money. But if you bludge, you don't get money; if you bludge you don't get any grades. That's something that I didn't realize when I was young.
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To take some benefit and give nothing in return.
    • Can I bludge a cigarette off you?
  • * 1983 , , The Unknown Great Australian and other psychobiographical portraits , page 105,
    • Gabriel was a classic bludger. He was a drop-out in the very modern sense of the word. The Rossettis were anything but well-heeled. Solid old brother William kept the show on the road. Gabriel bludged' on the family. He ' bludged on his mates.
  • * 2004 , Gillian Cowlishaw, Blackfellas, Whitefellas, and the Hidden Injuries of Race , page 135,
    • Now an adult with his own family, this man has become conscious of different norms among his children's white friends, and that whites often see sharing as bludging .

    Synonyms

    * (live off someone else) freeload, sponge * (sense, avoid one's responsibilities) shirk * (be idle) lounge * (take without giving back) cadge, scrounge

    Related terms

    * bludger

    Synonyms

    * (do nothing) idle, laze, lounge

    Anagrams

    * *