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bludge, v. slang.|blʌdʒ|
[Back-formation from bludger.]
intr. a. To act as a prostitute's pimp. b. Austral. and N.Z. To shirk responsibility or hard work; to impose on. Also trans., to cadge or scrounge.
1919Downing Digger Dial. 12 Bludge on the flag, to fail to justify one's existence as a soldier. 1931V. Palmer Separate Lives 264 I've stood you too long already, loafing around here, and bludging on your mother. 1937L. Mann Murder in Sydney 222 A bludger is a ruffian living on the earnings of an immoral woman. Britannia may be..an immoral woman, but there's no need for Australia to bludge on her. 1939K. Tennant Foveaux ii. iv. 176 Everybody bludges and robs. 1941― Battlers iii. 26 You..bludging little mongrel! 1944J. H. Fullarton Troop Target xxvi. 186 You were one of the 95 per cent who bludged at base in Enzed or England or Yankee-land. 1944L. Glassop We were Rats xxv. 147 Probably a Free Frenchman bludging a lift. 1945Southern Cross (London) 15 Dec. 4/1 Place seemed to be full of..sisters and cousins, all staying with the blokes Herbert had aimed to bludge on. 1945E. G. Webber Johnny Enzed in Middle East 43 Those oysters you bludged from me. 1967I. Hamilton Man with Brown Paper Face vi. 73 He bludged three cigarettes off me. 1967Southerly XXVII. 199 The bludging, dirty mong to whom she had..entrusted heart and hand.
Hence as n., an easy job or assignment; a period of loafing.
1945Baker Austral. Lang. viii. 156 Bludge, a soft job. 1949J. Cleary Long Shadow 195 He was happy in his job, it was a good bludge. 1969West Australian 16 Jan. 13/3 Prime Minister Gorton..quoted..as saying..he was coming to..the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference ‘on a bit of a bludge’. |