What does 'Bodgy' mean in Australia?
Australian slang 'Bodgy' meaning?
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of inferior quality, poor quality
Bodgies were late 1950’s – early 1960’s boys in leather jackets that hung out at milk-bars trying to look like James Dean with their hair plastered with a kilo and a half of Brylcream. If they had an FJ Holden or a Mk.1 Ford Zephyr, (or even better, a rattly old Triumph motorbike), they were definitely a chick-magnet, and the envy of every teen in the district.
1. Australia’s most charismatic prime minister, Bob Hawke, had the nickname “The Silver Bodgy”, because he had white hair fairly young, and it was long and swept back in “bodgy style”, and also because he was something of a working-class hero, but with a lot of flash jewellery.
2. As above – badly made, badly repaired, of low quality. Not to be confused with “dodgy” which means corrupt, unsafe, or otherwise outside the law or other forms of reasonableness (“This safety fence looks pretty dodgy.”)