bodgies

Then, while the "high priest" performed a gross act of indecency, the girl swore the "widgies 'oath" on the "bodgies 'bible".

Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents New Zealand. Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents 1926

It is alleged that the "high priest" made the girls participate in lewd rituals, swear a profane oath on "the bodgies 'bible" and worship at a "bodgies 'altar".

Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents New Zealand. Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents 1926

Examples include Pat Booth's 'Catch a falling star: Christchurch's newspaper blues' (1991), Carroll du Chateau's 'Why two old bodgies couldn't save the Star' (1991, about the Auckland Star) and Jim Tucker's 'Sunday snooze' (1994, about Auckland's Sunday newspapers).

Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885

After more than 30 years of rocking the border towns of Coolangatta and Tweed Heads, the bodgies and widgies are packing up the Brylcreem and bobby socks and driving their Chevrolets and Cadillacs into the sunset when the festival wraps up after being held on the Gold Coast for the last time this week.

AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

After more than 30 years of rocking the border towns of Coolangatta and Tweed Heads, the bodgies and widgies are packing up the Brylcreem and bobby socks and driving their Chevrolets and Cadillacs into the sunset when the festival wraps up after being held on the Gold Coast for the last time this week.

AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

-- 1991b, 'Why two old bodgies couldn't save the Star', Metro, Sept., pp. 96-107.

Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885