different between wedgie vs widgie

English

Etymology

From wedge +? -ie.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w?d?.i/
• Rhymes: -?d?i

Noun

wedgie (plural wedgies)

1. (colloquial) A wedge-heeled shoe.
2. (slang) A prank in which a person's underpants are pulled up sharply from behind in order to wedge the clothing uncomfortably between the person's buttocks.
3. (slang) A situation where a person's underpants are stuck uncomfortably between their buttocks.
4. (basketball, slang) a basketball stuck between the rim and the backboard following a field goal, free throw, rebound, or block attempt.
5. (informal, birdwatching) wedge-tailed eagle
   • 2003, Susannah Farfor, David Andrew, Hugh Finlay, Northern Territory (page 27)

     The white-bellied sea eagle is almost as big as a wedgie and handsomely marked in grey and white.

Synonyms

• (prank): snuggie

Derived terms

• atomic wedgie

Translations

See also

• melvin

Verb

wedgie (third-person singular simple present wedgies, present participle wedgying, simple past and past participle wedgied)

1. (slang) To play the wedgie prank on.
   • 1989, Michael Moffatt, Coming of Age in New Jersey (page 86)

     Last year's juniors had wedgied last year's freshmen, and then each freshman victim had happily joined the patrol, its aficionados claimed.

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

widgie (plural widgies)

1. (Australia, slang) A female bodgie.
   • 2006, Rob White, 11: Youth Gang Research in Australia, James F. Short, Jr., Lorine A. Hughes (editors), Studying Youth Gangs, page 163,

     The bodgies and widgies represented a new teenage culture, with an emphasis on fashion (long hair styles for the boys, gabardine skirts for the girls), street presence, dancing, and rock and roll music. From 1950 to 1959, the phenomenon of the bodgies and widgies captured the imagination of the media.

   • 2010, William Stokes, Westbrook, page 183,

     In Toowoomba, Magistrate Kearney was up in arms over the bodgies and widgies in town – those dressed-up teenagers with their spruced hair and polka-dot dresses who loitered around the city streets. They were seen as a threat to society.

   • 2010, Kerry Carrington, Margaret Pereira, Offending Youth: Sex, Crime and Justice, page 82,

     Nevertheless there was a distinctly gendered dimension - one which demonised the bodgie as delinquent and widgie as sexually immoral.

     Stratton (1992) attributes the emergence of bodgies and widgies as Australia?s first post-war working class youth culture to a number of historical changes in the Australian economy.

2. (Northern England, juvenile, slang) A penis.

Synonyms

• (penis): See Thesaurus:penis