Definition of bodgie in English:
bodgie
nounPlural bodgies ˈbɒdʒi
Australian, NZ informal A youth, especially of the 1950s, analogous to the British Teddy boy.
Example sentencesExamples
- It had fed bodgies and sailors and long-haired louts imitating The Beatles, as well as those kissing couples who had met at the Be-Bops dance on Saturday night.
adjectiveˈbɒdʒi
Australian, NZ informal Worthless or inferior; false.
a bodgie second-hand car with bodgie number plates
the handing out of bodgy licenses is a serious health and safety problem
Example sentencesExamples
- It would be a pretty bodgie public policy if it operated that way.
- It would have been wrong to support the bodgie and unnecessary legislation.
- Support the capacity for the Government to fine companies who introduce bodgie patents.
- We see the manipulation of bodgie science in order to maintain political conclusions.
- Second string athletes like discus throwers are stuck with bodgie second rate Ukrainian made growth hormone as opposed to the top notch American stuff.
- Let us quote the official figures, not the bodgie rhetoric from the National Opposition.
- So that is what makes the exhibit K a bodgie copy, a fake copy.
Origin
Probably from bodger, a term said to have arisen as a result of the post-war black market trade in cloth in Sydney: when inferior cloth was passed off as American-made, it was called bodgie, extended to denote any young man who adopted an American accent and manner.