Bludged vs Bludger - What's the difference?
bludged | bludger |
(bludge)
(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 ,
(Australia, slang, obsolete) A pimp, a man living off the earnings of a harlot. 1966 , Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language'', second edition, chapter VI, section 3, page 129—''mentions an 1882 record of the "pimp" usage
* 1997 , Barbara Ann Sullivan, The Politics of Sex: Prostitution and Pornography in Australia since 1945 ,
(Australia, NZ, slang, derogatory) A person who avoids working, or doing their share of work, a loafer, a hanger-on, one who does not pull their weight.
* 2005 , , Parliamentary Debates: House of Representatives: Ofiicial Hansard , Volume 270,
As a verb bludged
is (bludge).As a noun bludger is
(australia|slang|obsolete) a pimp, a man living off the earnings of a harlot 1966 , sidney j baker, the australian language'', second edition, chapter vi, section 3, page 129—''mentions an 1882 record of the "pimp" usage .bludged
English
Verb
(head)bludge
English
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.
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) 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
* *bludger
English
Noun
(en noun)page 30,
- This was the bludger' or, in American parlance, the pimp, a man who lived on the earnings of prostitution. He was often the husband or boyfriend of a prostitute and could be actively involved in protecting or touting for the prostitute. Parliamentarians described the ' bludger as ‘the most detestable wretch on the face of the earth’ and as a man ‘worthy of no respect whatsoever’ (NSWPD 31:1675).
page 84,
- If she is doing the work of two parents because her husband has died or left her or is violent and has driven her and the kids from home, then suddenly she is a bludger .