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bodgie

[boj-ee]
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noun Australian.
  1. a juvenile delinquent; youthful troublemaker.
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Origin of bodgie

1950–55; perhaps dial. (Yorkshire) bodge clumsy worker (see botch1) + -ie; compare bodger inferior, worthless
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British Dictionary definitions for bodgie

bodgie

noun
  1. an unruly or uncouth young man, esp in the 1950s; teddy boy
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adjective
  1. inferior; worthless
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Word Origin

C20: from bodge
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