anything worthless. Also variant 'bodgey' AUSTRALIA, 1953.

a male member of an urban youth subculture of the 1950s. Now only historical use. 'Bodgies' were noted for a peculiar style of dress (shocking for its day) that was in conscious imitation of American youth, including tight trousers, jackets, no ties and having slicked back hair with large sideburns. Their female counterparts were 'widgies'. This group was the subject of numerous alarmist media reports about youth deliquency. In origin the term must be related to other senses of 'bodgie/bodger', but exactly how is unclear. One theory, that it is a nominal use of 'bodgie' as 'counterfeit', referring to clothing made from poor quality cloth passed off as American material, is unsubstantiated by any early evidence AUSTRALIA, 1954.

a young swing jazz enthusiast US, 1952

false, counterfeit, phoney, sham. Appearing simultaneously with the synonymous 'bodger', these terms must derive from British dialect bodge (to make or mend clumsily or poorly), a variant of 'botch'. Recorded earliest in prison and underworld use it perhaps referred originally to a poorly done quota of work that prisoners had to submit daily AUSTRALIA, 1944.

poorly made or executed; worthless, hopeless AUSTRALIA, 1944