Bodgie vs Bodge - What's the difference?
bodgie | bodge |
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) A member of a 1950s rock subculture; a male member of the subculture.
* 1993 , Lesley Johnson, The Modern Girl: Girlhood and Growing Up ,
* 2001 , Roy Shuker, Understanding Popular Music ,
* 2010 , William Stokes, Westbrook ,
(British) To do a clumsy or inelegant job, usually as a temporary repair; patch up; repair, mend
* All the actions of his life are like so many things bodged in without any natural cadence or connexion at all. — (A book of characters, selected from the writings of Overbury, Earle, and Butler, Thomas Overbury and John Earle, 1865)
* Some cars were neglected, others bodged to keep them running with inevitable consequences — (Original Porsche 356: The Restorer's Guide, Laurence Meredith, 2003)
* Do not be satisfied with a bodged job, set yourself professional goals and standards — (The Restauration Handbook, Enric Roselló, 2007)
To work green wood using traditional country methods; to perform the craft of a bodger.
*1978 , John Geraint Jenkins, Traditional Country Craftsmen , page 16, ISBN 0710087268.
*:His father, grandfather and countless generations before him had obtained a living from chair bodging in the solitude of the beech glades.
*1989 , John Birchard, "The artful bodger", American Woodworker , page 41, May-June.
*:"Bodging is more a curiosity than a valid craft these days," says Don. "But experience in low-tech woodworking is also a good way for the beginner to start getting a feel for turning without having to make a huge investment in a modern lathe."
*2000 , Beth Robinson Bosk, The New Settler Interviews: Boogie at the Brink , ISBN 189013239X.
*:Which is no different than my chair bodging , in that I can go out into the woodland and do my work without having to be tied in to a village shop situation.
A clumsy or inelegant job, usually a temporary repair; a patch, a repair
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(historical) The water in which a smith would quench items heated in a forge.
(South East England) A four wheeled handcart used for transporting goods. Also a home made go-cart.
As a noun bodgie
is (australia|new zealand|slang) a member of a 1950s rock subculture; a male member of the subculture.As a proper noun bodge is
a nickname for the country of.bodgie
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Noun
(en noun)page 100,
- Unlike McDonald, Manning noted with dismay that traditional relations between the sexes were broken down in bodgie' groups. ' Bodgies , he argued, were disturbed youth, hooligans, maladjusted.
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- The New Zealand public and press largely shared his view of bodgies' as juvenile delinquents who posed a social threat. The '''bodgie''' soon became a national bogey man, with alarmist newspaper reports about ' bodgie behaviour.
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- In Toowoomba, Magistrate Kearney was up in arms over the bodgies and widgies in town – those dressed-up teenagers with their spruced hair and polka-dot dresses who loitered around the city streets. They were seen as a threat to society.
Coordinate terms
* widgie (female)Synonyms
* greaser (US), rocker (British)bodge
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Etymology 1
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(bodg)Noun
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