bludge

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The act of bludging.

   • 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.
2. 2

   Easy work, especially a subject at school that requires little effort.

   • 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.’
3. 3

   To live off the earnings of a prostitute.

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   1. 4

      To not earn one's keep, to live off someone else or off welfare when one could be working.

   2. 5

      To avoid one's responsibilities

      To avoid one's responsibilities; to leave it to others to perform duties that one is expected to perform.

      • 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.
   3. 6

      To do nothing, to be idle, especially when there is work to be done.

      • 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.
   4. 7

      To take some benefit and give nothing in return.

      • Can I bludge a cigarette off you?
      • 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.

The neighborhood

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