bodger
/ (ˈbɒdʒə) /
Australian informal worthless or second-rate
a labourer who traditionally lived and worked in the forest, making chairs from felling trees
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How to use bodger in a sentence
This is the sin of the usurer, the bodger, and the tyrannous landlord, and of this bad trinity the last is the worst.
The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century | Richard Henry TawneyThe bullet had perforated a large circular orifice in Honble bodger's hat, who, by this time, had returned to self-consciousness!
A Bayard From Bengal | Hurry Bungsho JabberjeeMe and Uncle Eli has clubbed together to buy bodger's racing tips.
bodger's Street was already alive with the anticipation of the coming week's festivities.
The Cathedral | Sir Hugh WalpoleMr. bodger has the second; it is of beautiful design, but dilapidated.
The Depot for Prisoners of War at Norman Cross Huntingdonshire | Thomas James Walker
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