English Dictionary

bludge

動詞

オーストラリア英語 廃用 俗語 ニュージーランド英語

(Australia, obsolete, slang) To live off the earnings of a prostitute. / (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To not earn one's keep, to live off someone else or off welfare when one could be working.

日本語の意味

売春婦の稼ぎで生活すること、もしくは本来働くべきにもかかわらず、他人や福祉に依存して生活すること

He used to bludge by living off his partner's earnings from prostitution.

彼はかつて、売春をするパートナーの稼ぎで生活していた。

意味（1）

(Australia, obsolete, slang) To live off the earnings of a prostitute.

意味（2）

(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To not earn one's keep, to live off someone else or off welfare when one could be working.

意味（3）

(Australia, New Zealand, slang) 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.

意味（4）

(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To do nothing, to be idle, especially when there is work to be done.

We had the member for Piako saying as recently as last year, when dealing with social security benefits and increases, “I feel myself that when we have able-bodied men and women who would bludge and draw the pension, there is something wrong.”

意味（5）

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

Can I bludge a cigarette off you?

bludges （ present singular third-person ）

bludging （ participle present ）

bludged （ participle past ）

bludged （ past ）