bludge (uncountable)
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) The act of bludging.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) Easy work.
• (easy work): doddle
bludge (third-person singular simple present bludges, present participle bludging, simple past and past participle bludged)
(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.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To avoid one's responsibilities; to leave it to others to perform duties that one is expected to perform.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To do nothing, to be idle, especially when there is work to be done.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To take some benefit and give nothing in return.
• (live off someone else): freeload, sponge
• (avoid one's responsibilities): shirk
• (be idle, do nothing): idle, laze, lounge
• (take without giving back): cadge, scrounge
• bugled, bulged
Source: Wiktionary
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
