Bodger
adjective
(Austral, informal) worthless or second-rate
a labourer who traditionally lived and worked in the forest, making chairs from felling trees
Historical Examples
The Cathedral Sir Hugh Walpole
Carriages & Coaches Ralph Straus
The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century Richard Henry Tawney
Elizabethan England William Harrison
The Depot for Prisoners of War at Norman Cross Huntingdonshire Thomas James Walker
A Bayard From Bengal Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 29th, 1920 Various
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