Bludge vs Sludge - What's the difference?
bludge | sludge |
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) The act of bludging.
* 2007 , Anne Barry, Playing with Fire ,
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) Easy work.
* 1997 , Wendy Morgan, Critical Literacy in the Classroom: The Art of the Possible ,
* 2011 , Irini Savvides, Sky Legs ,
(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 ,
* 2002 , , Anne Gray (editor), The Diaries of Donald Friend , Volume 1,
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To do nothing, to be idle, especially when there is work to be done.
* 1967 , , Parliamentary Debates ,
* 1998 , Marion Halligan, Rosanne Fitzgibbon, The gift of story: Three decades of UQP short stories ,
* 2004 , John Smyth, Robert Hattam, et al., ‘Dropping Out,’ Drifting Off, Being Excluded: Becoming Somebody Without School ,
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To take some benefit and give nothing in return.
* 1983 , , The Unknown Great Australian and other psychobiographical portraits ,
* 2004 , Gillian Cowlishaw, Blackfellas, Whitefellas, and the Hidden Injuries of Race ,
A generic term for solids separated from suspension in a liquid.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=28, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes.
A sediment of accumulated minerals in a steam boiler.
A mass of small pieces of ice on the surface of a body of water.
(uncountable, music) sludge metal
(informal) to slump or slouch.
to slop or drip slowly.
As nouns the difference between bludge and sludge
is that bludge is the act of bludging while sludge is a generic term for solids separated from suspension in a liquid.As verbs the difference between bludge and sludge
is that bludge is to live off the earnings of a prostitute while sludge is to slump or slouch.As an initialism SLUDGE is
a mnemonic ("salivation, lacrimation, urination, defecation, gastrointestinal upset, emesis") used to identify the common symptoms of certain affections of a cholinergic toxidrome.bludge
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Noun
(-)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.
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.
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- ‘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) doddleVerb
(bludg)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.
page 343,
- One of the mess orderlies had consistently bludged on the rest of us all day.
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.”
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.
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.
- Can I bludge a cigarette off you?
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.
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, scroungeSynonyms
* (do nothing) idle, laze, loungeAnagrams
* *sludge
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(wikipedia sludge)Noun
High and wet, passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.