blodger

English

Noun

blodger (plural blodgers)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) Alternative form of bludger.
   • 1910, The Nation - Volume 90, page 586:

     He was the leader of what were scornfuiiy called the "high souls" against the "blodgers."

   • 1966, Colin MacInnes, All Day Saturday, page 97:

     Tearing herself away irritably, Maureen said abruptly: 'That he's a skite, a larry, a blodger and a drongo all rolled into one.

   • 1988, Donald R. Katz, The big store: inside the crisis and revolution at Sears, page 156:

     In fact, all the executives who'd seen that Joe Moran was "really a bit of a blodger," in Jack Kelly's words, the ones who still owned copies of early white papers that revealed Moran's recent policy flip-flops, had been moved far away from him now.

   • 2008, Donna Kauffman, The Royal Hunter: A Novel, page 115:

     Am I such a callous blodger, then? You can't imagine that I might feel bad about the way we've invaded your life?

   • 2012, David Hackett Fischer, Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies:

     Officers and noncoms did not wear insignia of rank. “Nobody put up stripes in our outfit, that was for base blodgers,” one man remembered.