A young woman, especially of the 1950s, belonging to a subculture characterized by a liking for American fashion and rock-and-roll music, and associated with antisocial behaviour.
last I saw of him, a widgie had dragged him on to the dance floor
Example sentencesExamples
In no part did you want to be a bodgie or a widgie - not the way they dressed and carried on!
We used to have a couple of widgies in our school. They were real tough characters.
He had, so the court was told, taken up with a 'widgie-type' girl who had the 'unstable combination of an adult body and an immature mind'.
Wollongong had been an ok crowd, but this looked like every bodgie and widgie in Australia had turned up.
Her red hair is cut flat and short, and it occurs to Rose that if the girl waits long enough it'll actually come into fashion, especially if she had a tendency to hang around at the Snakepit and be a widgie.
There were frequent allegations that bodgies and widgies engaged in 'orgies'.
She had never actually seen a widgie but she knew Stella's get up was exactly the kind of thing troublemakers wore.
The boy knows his mother came here when she was a widgie.
Youth culture of the 1950s originated at least in part in the bodgie and widgie subculture.
'Oh yes,' he said. 'She used to be a widgie, you know.'
Origin
1950s: origin uncertain; possibly a blend of woman and bodgie.