Noncomformist vs Bodgie - What's the difference?
noncomformist | bodgie | Related terms |
(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 ,
Noncomformist is a related term of bodgie.
As a noun bodgie is
(australia|new zealand|slang) a member of a 1950s rock subculture; a male member of the subculture.noncomformist
Not English
Noncomformist has no English definition. It may be misspelled.English words similar to 'noncomformist':
nonconformist, noncombatant, noncompliant, nonscientist, nanoscientist, noncommunist, noneconomist, nongeneticist, nonconsultant, noncontaminant, noncongruent, nonaccountant, noncontingent, noncoincident, nonconvergent, nonconversant, noncompetent, nonconfident, nonconsumerist, nonconcurrent, nanocomponent, noncounterfeit, nonconsequent, nonconfluent, nonconfinement, nanoconstruct, noncommitmentbodgie
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(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.
