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Definition of widgie in English: widgienoun ˈwɪdʒi Australian, NZ informal A young woman, especially of the 1950s, belonging to a subculture characterized by a liking for American fashion and rock-and-roll music, and associated with antisocial behaviour. last I saw of him, a widgie had dragged him on to the dance floor Example sentencesExamples - In no part did you want to be a bodgie or a widgie - not the way they dressed and carried on!
- We used to have a couple of widgies in our school. They were real tough characters.
- He had, so the court was told, taken up with a 'widgie-type' girl who had the 'unstable combination of an adult body and an immature mind'.
- Wollongong had been an ok crowd, but this looked like every bodgie and widgie in Australia had turned up.
- Her red hair is cut flat and short, and it occurs to Rose that if the girl waits long enough it'll actually come into fashion, especially if she had a tendency to hang around at the Snakepit and be a widgie.
- There were frequent allegations that bodgies and widgies engaged in 'orgies'.
- She had never actually seen a widgie but she knew Stella's get up was exactly the kind of thing troublemakers wore.
- The boy knows his mother came here when she was a widgie.
- Youth culture of the 1950s originated at least in part in the bodgie and widgie subculture.
- 'Oh yes,' he said. 'She used to be a widgie, you know.'
Origin 1950s: origin uncertain; possibly a blend of woman and bodgie. |