different between bludge vs bludger

English

Etymology

Backformation from bludger.

Pronunciation

Noun

bludge (uncountable)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) The act of bludging.
2. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Easy work.
   • 2011, Irini Savvides, Sky Legs, unnumbered page,

     ‘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

• (easy work): doddle

Verb

bludge (third-person singular simple present bludges, present participle bludging, simple past and past participle bludged)

1. (Australia, obsolete, slang) To live off the earnings of a prostitute.
2. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To not earn one's keep, to live off someone else or off welfare when one could be working.
3. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To avoid one's responsibilities; to leave it to others to perform duties that one is expected to perform.
   • 2002, Donald Friend, Anne Gray (editor), The Diaries of Donald Friend, Volume 1, page 343,

     One of the mess orderlies had consistently bludged on the rest of us all day.

4. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To do nothing, to be idle, especially when there is work to be done.
   • 1998, Marion Halligan, Rosanne Fitzgibbon, The gift of story: Three decades of UQP short stories, page 96,

     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.

   • 2004, John Smyth, Robert Hattam, et al., ‘Dropping Out,’ Drifting Off, Being Excluded: Becoming Somebody Without School, page 53,

     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.

5. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To take some benefit and give nothing in return.

   Can I bludge a cigarette off you?

Synonyms

• (live off someone else): freeload, sponge
• (avoid one's responsibilities): shirk
• (be idle, do nothing): idle, laze, lounge
• (take without giving back): cadge, scrounge

Related terms

• bludger

Translations

Anagrams

• bugled, bulged

English

Etymology

Corruption of bludgeoner.

Pronunciation

Noun

bludger (plural bludgers)

1. (Australia, slang) A pimp, a man living off the earnings of a harlot. [From 1856.]
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VII, p. 106, [1]

     Oscar pondered for a while, then said, "Oh, but halfcastes don't seem to be any good at all. All the men here are loafers and bludgers, the women practically all whores."
2. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) A person who avoids working, or doing their share of work, a loafer, a hanger-on, one who does not pull their weight. [From 1919.]
3. A ball used in the sports of Quidditch and Muggle Quidditch.

Derived terms

• dole bludger

Related terms

• bludge

See also

• freeloader
• free rider

References

Anagrams

• Ludbreg, burgled