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Rowdy vs Bodgie - What's the difference?

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Rowdy is a related term of bodgie.


As nouns the difference between rowdy and bodgie

is that rowdy is a boisterous person; a brawler while bodgie is (australia|new zealand|slang) a member of a 1950s rock subculture; a male member of the subculture.

As an adjective rowdy

is rough and disorderly; riotous or just boisterous.

rowdy

English

Alternative forms

* rowdie

Adjective

(er)
  • rough and disorderly; riotous or just boisterous

    • Derived terms

    * rowdiness * rowdyism

    Noun

    (rowdies)
  • A boisterous person; a brawler.

    • Synonyms

    * (boisterous person) brawler, ruffian

    Anagrams

    * *

    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)