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Budgie vs Bodgie - What's the difference?

budgie | bodgie |

As nouns the difference between budgie and bodgie

is that budgie is a budgerigar while bodgie is a member of a 1950s rock subculture; a male member of the subculture.

budgie

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (informal) A budgerigar.
  • bodgie

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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 , 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.
  • * 2001 , Roy Shuker, Understanding Popular Music , page 223,
  • 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.
  • * 2010 , William Stokes, Westbrook , page 183,
  • 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)