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词汇 bodgie
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Definition of bodgie in English:

bodgie

nounPlural bodgies ˈbɒdʒi
Australian, NZ informal
  • A youth, especially of the 1950s, analogous to the British Teddy boy.

    (尤指20世纪50年代类似英国男阿飞的)无赖青年,不良少年

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It had fed bodgies and sailors and long-haired louts imitating The Beatles, as well as those kissing couples who had met at the Be-Bops dance on Saturday night.
adjectiveˈbɒdʒi
Australian, NZ informal
  • Worthless or inferior; false.

    a bodgie second-hand car with bodgie number plates
    the handing out of bodgy licenses is a serious health and safety problem
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It would be a pretty bodgie public policy if it operated that way.
    • It would have been wrong to support the bodgie and unnecessary legislation.
    • Support the capacity for the Government to fine companies who introduce bodgie patents.
    • We see the manipulation of bodgie science in order to maintain political conclusions.
    • Second string athletes like discus throwers are stuck with bodgie second rate Ukrainian made growth hormone as opposed to the top notch American stuff.
    • Let us quote the official figures, not the bodgie rhetoric from the National Opposition.
    • So that is what makes the exhibit K a bodgie copy, a fake copy.

Origin

Probably from bodger, a term said to have arisen as a result of the post-war black market trade in cloth in Sydney: when inferior cloth was passed off as American-made, it was called bodgie, extended to denote any young man who adopted an American accent and manner.

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