Bodgie vs Delinquent - What's the difference?
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(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 ,
Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.
Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense
One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws.
(obsolete) a term applied to royalists by their opponents in the English Civil War 1642 - 1645. Charles I was known as the chief delinquent.
Bodgie is a related term of delinquent.
As a noun bodgie
is (australia|new zealand|slang) a member of a 1950s rock subculture; a male member of the subculture.As a verb delinquent is
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English
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)delinquent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Fred is delinquent in making his car payment.
- The company made a new effort to collect delinquent payments.
