bodgie
/ˈbɒdʒi
/Australian /NZ informal
noun (plural bodgies)
A youth, especially of the 1950s, analogous to the British Teddy boy.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.
adjective (also bodgy)
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...
- 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.
- 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.
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