Bludges vs Bludged - What's the difference?
bludges | bludged |
(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 ,
As verbs the difference between bludges and bludged
is that bludges is (bludge) while bludged is (bludge).bludges
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.
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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 .
