Hippie vs Bodgie - What's the difference?
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A teenager who imitated the beatniks.
One who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who ascribes to values or actions such as acceptance or self-practice of recreational drug use, liberal or radical sexual mores, advocacy of communal living, strong pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc.
(modern ) A person, especially a male, with unusually long hair and often wearing ragged clothes.
Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
One who is hip.
Of or pertaining to hippies: e.g., “the hippie era”.
(colloquial) Not conforming to generally accepted standards: e.g., “Despite being for the widely-used Windows operating system, rather than using the commonly-used RAR or ZIP file-compression formats, they used a bunch of hippie compression formats instead”.
(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 ,
Hippie is a related term of bodgie.
As nouns the difference between hippie and bodgie
is that hippie is hippie, hippy while bodgie is (australia|new zealand|slang) a member of a 1950s rock subculture; a male member of the subculture.hippie
English
(wikipedia hippie)Alternative forms
* hippyNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (teenager who imitated the beatniks) beatnik * treehuggerDerived terms
* hippiedomSee also
* feralAdjective
(er)Synonyms
* beatnikbodgie
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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.