bludgev.
/blʌdʒ/, U.S. /blədʒ/ slang.
1. intransitive. To act as a prostitute's pimp.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [verb (intransitive)] > procure or pimp
panderize1598
ruffianize1611
procurea1616
pimpa1640
bawd1647
bludge1937
1937 L. 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.
2. intransitive. Australian and New Zealand. To shirk responsibility or hard work; to impose on. Also transitive, to cadge or scrounge.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > undutifulness > [verb (intransitive)] > avoid
skulk?c1225
flinch1578
bludge1919
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from action [verb (intransitive)] > avoid > avoid duty, work, or exertion
feignc1300
lurk1551
slug1642
skulk1781
malinger1820
mike1838
shirk1853
slinker1880
scrimshank1882
pike1889
scow1901
spruce1916
to swing the lead1917
bludge1919
to dodge the column1919
skive1919
to screw off1943
to do a never1946
to fuck off1946
to dick off1948
the world > action or operation > advantage > be advantageous or beneficial to [verb (transitive)] > take advantage of > turn to account > exploit or milk (a situation) > a person's good will, money, etc.
bludge1919
to pimp on (also off)1928
the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way > by irregular means
miswinc1400
sorn1563
shirk1635
sponge1676
whizzle1787
mooch1865
honeyfuggle1905
hot-stuff1914
scrounge1917
hum1918
ponce1938
organize1941
bludge1944
1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 12 Bludge on the flag, to fail to justify one's existence as a soldier.
1931 V. Palmer Separate Lives 264 I've stood you too long already, loafing around here, and bludging on your mother.
1939 K. Tennant Foveaux ii. iv. 176 Everybody bludges and robs.
1944 J. 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.
1945 L. Glassop We were Rats xxv. 147 Probably a Free Frenchman bludging a lift.
1945 Southern 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.
1945 E. G. Webber Johnny Enzed in Middle East 43 Those oysters you bludged from me.
1967 I. Hamilton Man with Brown Paper Face vi. 73 He bludged three cigarettes off me.
Derivatives
bludge n. an easy job or assignment; a period of loafing.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > [noun] > that which is easy > task or duty
wrap-up1938
bludge1945
walkthrough1980
skoosh1985
the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > period of lazing or lounging
lounge1806
laze1862
thoke1891
bludge1945
1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. viii. 156 Bludge, a soft job.
1949 J. Cleary Long Shadow 195 He was happy in his job, it was a good bludge.
1969 West 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’.
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