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bodgie

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bodgie [ˈbɒdʒɪ] Austral and NZ
n
an unruly or uncouth young man, esp in the 1950s; teddy boy
adj
inferior; worthless
[from bodge]


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The "three mines policy" was a bodgy compromise negotiated by the silver bodgie himself, Bob Hawke, to defuse what was seen as an electoral liability for the South Australian ALP, which was required by party policy to oppose the proposed Roxby Downs mine.
Brilliantine was essential to maintaining the gravity-defying men's hairstyles of the 1950s: the exaggerated ducktail of the Bodgie and Elvis's engorged cowlick.
1952, linocut * Ray Bizley, Ancient structure, [print] * Dorrit Black, a street scene, possibly Elizabeth Street, Sydney, linocut * Barbara Brash, Peacock, [print] * Malcolm Carbins, Barula Road landscape, oil * Nancy Clifton, Bodgies, linocut, 38.
 
 
 
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