bludge
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Is bludge a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) The act of bludging.Examples: "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."AustraliaNew-Zealandslanguncountable
2. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Easy work, especially a subject at school that requires little effort.Examples: "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."; "‘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: doddleAustraliaNew-Zealandslanguncountable
verb (English)
1. (Australia, obsolete, slang) To live off the earnings of a prostitute.Australiaobsoleteslang
2. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To not earn one's keep, to live off someone else or off welfare when one could be working.Synonyms: freeload, spongeAustraliaNew-Zealandslang
3. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To avoid one's responsibilities; to leave it to others to perform duties that one is expected to perform.Examples: "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."; "One of the mess orderlies had consistently bludged on the rest of us all day."Synonyms: shirkAustraliaNew-Zealandslang
4. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To do nothing, to be idle, especially when there is work to be done.Examples: "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.”"; "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."; "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."Synonyms: idle, laze, loungeAustraliaNew-Zealandslang
5. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To take some benefit and give nothing in return.Examples: "Can I bludge a cigarette off you?"; "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."; "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."Synonyms: cadge, scroungeAustraliaNew-Zealandslang
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