bodgie

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English bodg(er) English -ie English bodgie From bodg(er) + -ie.

1. A member of a 1950s rock subculture; a teddy boy.

   “I comb my hair as best I can. It is in a crew-cut ordered by the chief warder. He must have read that bodgies wear their hair long and decided to do his bit in the fight against juvenile delinquency.”

   “Unlike McDonald, Manning noted with dismay that traditional relations between the sexes were broken down in bodgie groups. Bodgies, he argued, were disturbed youth, hooligans, maladjusted.”