bodgie

 
Pronunciation: /ˈbɒdʒi/
Australian/NZ informal

noun (plural bodgies)

  • a youth, especially of the 1950s, analogous to the British Teddy boy.

adjective

(also bodgy)
  • worthless or inferior; false: a bodgie second-hand car with bodgie number plates the handing out of bodgy licenses is a serious health and safety problem

Origin:

probably from bodger, a term said to have arisen as a result of the post-war black market trade in cloth in Sydney: when inferior cloth was passed off as American-made, it was called bodgie, extended to denote any young man who adopted an American accent and manner