bludge
/blʌdʒ
/Australian /NZ informal
verb [no object]
1Shirk responsibility and live off the efforts of others: they were sick of bludging on the public...
- But I can't agree with that, I don't think that is the big issue, I think the big issue is about them bludging on an Australian product and not putting enough back into it.
- This one friend has been shrieking about her exes, and in particular, how one of them just keeps bludging on her, and how she keeps him happy by giving him $500 a month.
- ‘We've had a lot of members for a long time pissed off about non-members bludging on the union for a long time,’ he says.
1.1 [with object] Seek to obtain (something) at the expense or through the generosity of others: the girls bludged smokes...
- A few months later he returned and went collecting stories about the dog that became a legend in the 70s, travelling around the country, hitching lifts, bludging food and making friends.
- Slinking outside like the mere serf I was, I realised I could use this as another toilet bludging opportunity - besides, there was that magazine to be read.
- Let dad find his way back to Wanganui by bus or by bludging a lift with a friend.
noun
An easy job or assignment: that night shift must be the biggest bludge on earth...
- At high school Fahd wasn't sure what she wanted to do with her life her life, but ended up studying art at school because ‘it was kind of a bludge.’
- I nodded as I looked around. ‘That's got nothing to do with artistic talent coming with blond hair, it's just that art lessons are generally a huge bludge, and that's what they're looking for.
- Got this assessment in Chemistry, but otherwise, it was a bludge really… You?
Phrases
on the bludge
Origin
Late 19th century: back-formation from bludger.