单词 | bodgie |
释义 | bodgien.1 Australian and New Zealand. Now historical. A member of a subculture, esp. of the 1950s, characterized by unconventional or controversial behaviour and dress, and similar to that of rockers (rocker n.1 6d) or teddy boys. Cf. widgie n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > specific fashions > follower of specific fashion moon child1923 bodgie1949 Ted1956 teddy1956 neatnik1959 mod1960 rocker1963 longhair1964 yé-yé1964 sharpie1965 hippie1966 punk1976 neo-hippie1980 New Romantic1980 1949 Sun (Sydney) 14 Jan. 9/3 At the concert tonight will be Billy Weston's Bopcats, thrown in to satisfy those youngsters of the town in hep clothes and crew haircuts who call themselves the ‘Bodgies’. 1951 Sydney Morning Herald 1 Feb. 1/9 What with ‘bodgies’ growing their hair long and getting round in satin shirts, and ‘weegies’ cutting their hair short and wearing jeans, confusion seems to be arising about the sex of some Australian adolescents. 1958 N.Z. Listener 3 Oct. 10/3 Every psychologist who has talked with bodgies will know that fear of an uncertain future is one of the factors in youthful misconduct. 2009 M. Arrow Friday on our Minds iii. 53 Youth culture of the 1950s originated at least in part in the bodgie and widgie subculture, which was seen as different and colourful at best, and delinquent and depraved at worst. Derivatives ˈbodgieism n. the culture, attitudes, or behaviour associated with bodgies. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > specific fashions Hollywoodism1925 bodgieism1951 punk chic1977 1951 Truth (Brisbane) 9 Dec. 3/2 Police in three Australian States..must take stern steps to put the brakes on bodgieism before the flamboyant cult becomes a national social menace. 1965 D. P. Ausubel in M. Sherif Probl. Youth vi. 123 The growth of..serious youth and social problems (crime, juvenile delinquency, bodgieism). 2003 D. M. Grant Those who can Teach viii. 113 To connect the authoritarianism of secondary schools to the development of bodgieism was a long bow to stretch. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). bodgieadj.n.2 A. adj. 1. Poorly made, repaired, or executed; of unsatisfactory workmanship, appearance, reliability, etc.; shoddy, inferior, bodged. Cf. dodgy adj. Additions. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > [adjective] evil971 lowc1175 poor?c1225 feeblec1275 vilea1300 petty1372 unthende1377 secondary1386 petitc1390 unmeeta1393 illa1400 commonc1400 coarse1424 indigent1426 unlikelyc1450 lesser1464 gross1474 naughty1526 inferior1531 reprobate?1545 slender1577 unlikely1578 puny1579 under1580 wooden1592 sordid1596 puisne1598 provant1601 subministrant1604 inferious1607 sublunary1624 indifferent1638 undermatched1642 unworthy1646 underly1648 turncoated1650 female1652 undergraduate1655 farandinical1675 baddishc1736 ungenerous1745 understrapping1762 tinnified1794 demi-semi1805 shabby1805 dicky1819 poor white1821 tin-pot1838 deterior1848 substandard1850 crumby1859 cheesy1863 po'1866 not-quite1867 rocky1873 mouldy1876 low-grade1878 sketchy1878 midget1879 junky1880 ullaged1892 abysmal1904 bodgie1905 junk1908 crap1936 ropy1941 bodger1945 two-star1951 tripey1955 manky1958 schlocky1960 cack1978 wank1991 bowf1994 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > unskilled in art or craft > putting together clumsily > clumsily put together cloutedc1380 bodged1519 botched1537 tinkerly?1576 tinker-like1596 cobbled1798 botchy1843 bodgie1905 haywire1905 bodgied1974 bodgied-up1988 1905 M. Barnes-Grundy Vacillations Hazel xiii. 158 I simply can't mend stockings. They pucker up..and get bodgy, and won't mend properly. 1945 Mail (Adelaide) 21 Apr. 6/4 They relax freely into Army slang... Everything is in order if ‘it's apples’ and it's rotten if it's ‘bodgy’. 1965 J. Lowrie Pract. Homemaking xii. 160 Much bodgy ‘making good’ goes on when flint is repointed, so make sure your builder knows what he is about. 1992 Dominion (Wellington, N.Z.) 27 Nov. 10 Anyone who zizzles a neighbour or friend through a bodgey toaster repair will be prosecuted. 2019 Impact News Service (Nexis) 18 Sept. It's a bodgie system... By the minister's own admission,..some 20 per cent of notices..are inaccurate and have to be withdrawn. 2. Australian and New Zealand. Not authentic; false, fake. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [adjective] counterfeitedc1385 counterfeitc1386 trothlessa1393 bastard1397 forged1484 apocryphate1486 adulterate?a1509 mockisha1513 sophisticate1531 adulterine1542 adulterous1547 mock1548 forbate1558 coined1582 firking1594 feigned1598 adulterated1610 apocryphal1612 spurious1615 usurpeda1616 impostured1619 mock-madea1625 suppository1641 affictitious1656 pasteboard1659 sophisticated1673 flam1678 Brummagem1679 sham1681 belieda1718 fictitious1739 Birmingham1785 pinchbeck1790 brummish1803 Brum1805 flash1812 spurious1830 bogus1839 imitative1839 dummy1846 doctored1853 postiche1854 pseudo1854 Brummagemish1855 snide1859 inauthentic1860 fake1879 bum1884 Brummie1886 tin1886 filled1887 duff1889 faked1890 shicec1890 margarine1891 dud1904 Potemkin village1904 mocked-up1919 phoney baloney1936 four-flushing1942 bodgie1956 moody1958 disauthentic1960 bodgied1988 bodgied-up1988 1956 Argus (Melbourne) 15 Dec. (Weekender section) 2/1 They whipped a bay mare out of a pasture, cooked up some bodgie papers and tried to sell it, claiming they had legally purchased it. 1982 P. Adam Smith Shearers 201 Contractors are used to bodgy names. 2000 Newcastle (Austral.) Herald (Nexis) 12 Dec. 8 It's simply no longer possible to turn up..with a bodgie passport, birth certificate or citizenship papers and claim a driver's licence. B. n.2 Australian and New Zealand. A ‘bodgie’ thing; something shoddy, unreliable, or of dubious origin. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior thing > [noun] poornessa1382 chaffc1386 cold roast?1406 arse-guta1413 short end1560 under-kind1571 inferior1589 canvas-back1605 underthing1620 under-sort1655 wasteling1750 slouch1767 shamea1771 neck beefa1777 rep1786 wastrel1790 wastera1800 shoddy1862 piece1884 tinhorn1887 robbo1897 cheapie1898 buckeye1906 reach-me-down1916 dog1917 stinkeroo1934 bodgie1964 cheapo1975 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > [noun] > something false or forged falsehood1340 counterfeiture1548 forgery1574 bastard1581 man of straw1599 counterfeit1613 imitationa1616 mock1646 pasteboard1648 sophistication1664 imposture1699 fraud1725 sham1728 adulteration1756 falsity1780 duff1781 shim-sham1797 shammy1822 Hodge-razor1843 pinchbeck1847 shice1859 cook-up1865 postiche1876 fakery1880 fake1883 bogosity1893 spuriosity1894 dud1897 cluck1904 rake-up1957 bodgie1988 1952 Sun (Sydney) 6 Mar. 1/7 An office in town has a mail file marked bodgies. It's for letters that don't seem to come under any of the regular classifications. The misfits, in other words. 1964 J. Iggulden Clouded Sky 10 ‘I've had that bloody altimeter!’ shouted Ern. ‘It's a bodgie. I'll throw it in the bloody river.’ 1988 Herald (Melbourne) (Nexis) 29 Mar. We had a bloke advertising the sale of shares in this superb looking..horse... Problem was the photo appearing in the newspaper ads was a bodgy and there was no horse. 2003 Sunday Times (Perth) (Nexis) 22 June He said he had received the email..in good faith and had no idea it was ‘a bodgie’ when he tendered it [as evidence]. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022). bodgiev. Originally and chiefly Australian and New Zealand. 1. transitive. To modify (something) with the intention to deceive; esp. to alter (figures, documents, etc.) fraudulently; to falsify. Frequently with up. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > forgery, falsification > forge, falsify [verb (transitive)] forgec1330 counterfeitc1386 feign1484 flamc1500 adulterate?1526 mint1593 fashion1600 fudge1674 sham1699 doctor1750 fake1884 to fake up1885 phoney1940 bodgie1969 1969 Canberra Times 21 May 2/5 On many occasions they [sc. used cars] are bodgied up before the dealers get them. 1977 Women & Politics Conf. 1975 (Austral. Govt. Publishing Service) 1 121/1 We thought that we might have to bodgy the whole thing..to make the results credible. 1981 Parl. Deb. House of Representatives N.Z. 3rd Sess., 39th Parl. 438 870 [The government] has..changed the way in which one applies, and that is why it can bodgie up the numbers of people applying for State houses. 2007 B. Matthews Intractable 54 I bodgied the enlistment forms, stating that I had no juvenile record, and forged Mum's signature giving permission for me to enlist. 2. transitive. To make or repair (something) in a clumsy, unskilful, or makeshift way; to cobble together, to bodge (see bodge v.). Frequently with up. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > be unskilled in [verb (transitive)] > construct or manufacture clumsily or unskilfully misworkOE mismakec1175 bodgie1984 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > be unskilled in [verb (transitive)] > put together clumsily or unskilfully > mend clumsily or unskilfully cobble1496 bodgie1984 1984 Sydney Morning Herald 6 Nov. (Good Living Suppl.) 4/3 Their harness was..authentic down to the fine detail of being bodgied up with bits and pieces of rope here and there. 1991 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 8 Jan. (Late ed.) 11 He read the bit..on how to bodgie up welding gear using two batteries and bits of wire. 2020 Townsville (Austral.) Bull. (Nexis) 9 Dec. 20 [On a farm] you will go broke quickly if you think that you can run to town every time something needs fixing. You learn how to ‘bodgie’ it up until the job is finished. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.11949adj.n.21905v.1969 |
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