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Bludge

(Australian)

To cadge, scrounge, shirk or loaf. Originally the word meant to bully and was a shortening of bludgeon. It later meant to live off immoral earnings. The word, which has given rise to the more com- mon bludger, was introduced to Britain via Australian TV soap operas in the late 1980s.

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