Bludge
Origin
Backformation from bludger.
Full definition of bludge
Noun
bludge
(uncountable)- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) The act of bludging.
- 2007, Anne Barry, Playing with Fire, %22bludges%22|%22bludging%22|%22bludged%22+-intitle:%22bludging%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=uzn4TrzwEI_FmQXw5NjTAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22bludge%22|%22bludges%22|%22bludging%22|%22bludged%22%20-intitle%3A%22bludging%22&f=false page 136,A friend offered him a job working as a handyman in his carpet factory – a Mr Fix-it. Effectively off the bludge and back on track.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Easy work.
- 1997, Wendy Morgan, Critical Literacy in the Classroom: The Art of the Possible, %22bludges%22|%22bludging%22|%22bludged%22+-intitle:%22bludging%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ohz4Tr20NuGfmQXqzL3fBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22bludge%22|%22bludges%22|%22bludging%22|%22bludged%22%20-intitle%3A%22bludging%22&f=false page 145,Oh, my name is Gecko and I just thought the whole unit was a bludge, sometimes it got really boring. But like I said I could just fall asleep and let my group members do all the work. And still almost pass.
- 2011, Irini Savvides, Sky Legs, %22bludges%22|%22bludging%22|%22bludged%22+-intitle:%22bludging%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NlX4TsTLKcb4mAXn7uClAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22bludge%22|%22bludges%22|%22bludging%22|%22bludged%22%20-intitle%3A%22bludging%22&f=false unnumbered page,‘Seriously, you′ve got sheep at school?’ I said.‘Yeah, heaps of kids here do Ag. Reckon it′s a big bludge, like drama.’
Synonyms
- (easy work) doddle
Verb
- (Australia, obsolete, slang) To live off the earnings of a prostitute.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To not earn one's keep, to live off someone else or off welfare when one could be working.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To avoid one's responsibilities; to leave it to others to perform duties that one is expected to perform.
- 1999, Tony Shillitoe, Joy Ride, %22bludges%22|%22bludging%22|%22bludged%22+-intitle:%22bludging%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=uzn4TrzwEI_FmQXw5NjTAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22bludge%22|%22bludges%22|%22bludging%22|%22bludged%22%20-intitle%3A%22bludging%22&f=false page 64,The second last Thursday in first term of Year Nine, Jason and I bludged school for the first time together. It wasn't Jason's first time. He bludged school regularly, but I never used to miss days unless I was really sick.
- 2002, Donald Friend, Anne Gray (editor), The Diaries of Donald Friend, Volume 1, %22bludges%22|%22bludging%22|%22bludged%22+-intitle:%22bludging%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GSb4To3MOs2HmQXj3IC2Ag&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22bludge%22|%22bludges%22|%22bludging%22|%22bludged%22%20-intitle%3A%22bludging%22&f=false page 343,One of the mess orderlies had consistently bludged on the rest of us all day.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To do nothing, to be idle, especially when there is work to be done.
- 1967, New Zealand House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, %22bludges%22|%22bludging%22|%22bludged%22+-intitle:%22bludging%22&dq=%22bludge%22|%22bludges%22|%22bludging%22|%22bludged%22+-intitle:%22bludging%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=d174Tu2rFuHrmAWL_bGdBA&redir_esc=y page 3164,We had the member for Piako saying as recently as last year, when dealing with social security benefits and increases, “I feel myself that when we have able-bodied men and women who would bludge and draw the pension, there is something wrong.â€
- 1998, Marion Halligan, Rosanne Fitzgibbon, The gift of story: Three decades of UQP short stories, %22bludges%22|%22bludging%22|%22bludged%22+-intitle:%22bludging%22&dq=%22bludge%22|%22bludges%22|%22bludging%22|%22bludged%22+-intitle:%22bludging%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9Vj4TuudEe_HmQWf3MC0Ag&redir_esc=y page 96,Now, you get back out there and you bludge! I don't want to see anyone working, OK? I don't want to see any pick-axes, any hammers, or nothing.
- 2004, John Smyth, Robert Hattam, et al., ‘Dropping Out,’ Drifting Off, Being Excluded: Becoming Somebody Without School, %22bludges%22|%22bludging%22|%22bludged%22+-intitle:%22bludging%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GSb4To3MOs2HmQXj3IC2Ag&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22bludge%22|%22bludges%22|%22bludging%22|%22bludged%22%20-intitle%3A%22bludging%22&f=false page 53,I mean, school′s like a job. If you work for it you get your grades; if you work your hours you get your money. But if you bludge, you don't get money; if you bludge you don't get any grades. That's something that I didn't realize when I was young.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To take some benefit and give nothing in return.Can I bludge a cigarette off you?
- 1983, Max Harris, The Unknown Great Australian and other psychobiographical portraits, %22bludges%22|%22bludging%22|%22bludged%22+-intitle:%22bludging%22&dq=%22bludge%22|%22bludges%22|%22bludging%22|%22bludged%22+-intitle:%22bludging%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZXT4TtOBIaKhmQWL6KSIAg&redir_esc=y page 105,Gabriel was a classic bludger. He was a drop-out in the very modern sense of the word. The Rossettis were anything but well-heeled. Solid old brother William kept the show on the road. Gabriel bludged on the family. He bludged on his mates.
- 2004, Gillian Cowlishaw, Blackfellas, Whitefellas, and the Hidden Injuries of Race, %22bludges%22|%22bludging%22|%22bludged%22+-intitle:%22bludging%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GSb4To3MOs2HmQXj3IC2Ag&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22bludge%22|%22bludges%22|%22bludging%22|%22bludged%22%20-intitle%3A%22bludging%22&f=false page 135,Now an adult with his own family, this man has become conscious of different norms among his children's white friends, and that whites often see sharing as bludging.