bodgie
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Noun
bodgie (plural bodgies)
- (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[1], 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[2], 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[3], 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.
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Coordinate terms
- widgie (female)