Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to bludge
Participle: bludged
Gerund: bludging
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | bludge |
| you | bludge |
| he;she;it | bludges |
| we | bludge |
| you | bludge |
| they | bludge |
Perfect
| I | have bludged |
| you | have bludged |
| he;she;it | has bludged |
| we | have bludged |
| you | have bludged |
| they | have bludged |
Past
| I | bludged |
| you | bludged |
| he;she;it | bludged |
| we | bludged |
| you | bludged |
| they | bludged |
Pluperfect
| I | had bludged |
| you | had bludged |
| he;she;it | had bludged |
| we | had bludged |
| you | had bludged |
| they | had bludged |
Future
| I | will bludge |
| you | will bludge |
| he;she;it | will bludge |
| we | will bludge |
| you | will bludge |
| they | will bludge |
Future Perfect
| I | will have bludged |
| you | will have bludged |
| he;she;it | will have bludged |
| we | will have bludged |
| you | will have bludged |
| they | will have bludged |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | bludge |
| you | bludge |
| he;she;it | bludge |
| we | bludge |
| you | bludge |
| they | bludge |
Perfect
| I | have bludged |
| you | have bludged |
| he;she;it | have bludged |
| we | have bludged |
| you | have bludged |
| they | have bludged |
Imperfect
| I | bludged |
| you | bludged |
| he;she;it | bludged |
| we | bludged |
| you | bludged |
| they | bludged |
Pluperfect
| I | had bludged |
| you | had bludged |
| he;she;it | had bludged |
| we | had bludged |
| you | had bludged |
| they | had bludged |
Conditional
Present
| I | would bludge |
| you | would bludge |
| he;she;it | would bludge |
| we | would bludge |
| you | would bludge |
| they | would bludge |
Perfect
| I | would have bludged |
| you | would have bludged |
| he;she;it | would have bludged |
| we | would have bludged |
| you | would have bludged |
| they | would have bludged |
Imperative
| you | bludge |
| we | Let's bludge |
| you | bludge |
Verbs conjugated like 'bludge'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'bludge'
blunge,
budge,
cludge,
kludge,
sludge,
abjudge,
ablude,
badge,
blade,
bludgeon,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to be idle
- arse about, arse around, bum around, cabbage, clown around, dawdle, dick about, dick around, dilly-dally, drumble, faff, faff about, faff around, fanny about, fanny around, fart about, fart around, fiddle about, fiddle around, fool about, fool around, footle, goof around, goof off, hang about, hang around, hang out, horse around, idle, jerk off, lallygag, laze, laze about, laze around, linger, loaf, loaf about, loaf around, loiter, lollygag, mess around, mill about, mill around, muck about, muck around, tarry, waste time, while
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Back-formation from bludger.
Sample Sentences
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The second last Thursday in first term of Year Nine, Jason and I bludged school for the first time together. It wasn't Jason's first time. He bludged school regularly, but I never used to miss days unless I was really sick. [1999, Tony Shillitoe, Joy Ride, page 64:]
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One of the mess orderlies had consistently bludged on the rest of us all day. [2002, Donald Friend, edited by Anne Gray, The Diaries of Donald Friend, volume 1, page 343:]
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We had the member for Piako saying as recently as last year, when dealing with social security benefits and increases, “I feel myself that when we have able-bodied men and women who would bludge and draw the pension, there is something wrong.” [1967, New Zealand House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, page 3164:]
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Now, you get back out there and you bludge! I don't want to see anyone working, OK? I don't want to see any pick-axes, any hammers, or nothing. [1998, Marion Halligan, Rosanne Fitzgibbon, The gift of story: Three decades of UQP short stories, page 96:]
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I mean, school′s like a job. If you work for it you get your grades; if you work your hours you get your money. But if you bludge, you don't get money; if you bludge you don't get any grades. That's something that I didn't realize when I was young. [2004, John Smyth, Robert Hattam, et al., ‘Dropping Out,’ Drifting Off, Being Excluded: Becoming Somebody Without School, page 53:]
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Can I bludge a cigarette off you?
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Gabriel was a classic bludger. He was a drop-out in the very modern sense of the word. The Rossettis were anything but well-heeled. Solid old brother William kept the show on the road. Gabriel bludged on the family. He bludged on his mates. [1983, Max Harris, The Unknown Great Australian and other psychobiographical portraits, page 105:]
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Now an adult with his own family, this man has become conscious of different norms among his children's white friends, and that whites often see sharing as bludging. [2004, Gillian Cowlishaw, Blackfellas, Whitefellas, and the Hidden Injuries of Race, page 135:]