bogger

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒɡə(ɹ)

Etymology 1[edit]

From various senses of bog +‎ -er.

Noun[edit]

bogger (plural boggers)

  1. Someone associated with or who works in a bog.
    • 2000, Lorraine Heath., Never Love a Cowboy, page 51:
      “I was a bogger afore the war—”
      “A bogger?”
      “Yep. I was the one sent to get the cattle out of the muddy bogs and thickets.”
  2. (Australia, slang) A man who catches nippers (snapping prawns).[1]
  3. (originally UK, derogatory) Synonym of Boglander: an Irishman, now (Ireland, derogatory) a yokel, an Irishman from the countryside or (sometimes) from anywhere other than Dublin and the Pale.
  4. (Newfoundland, Labrador) A dare, a task that children challenge each other to complete.[2]
  5. (Australia, Western Australia, slang) Someone who works to shovel ore or waste rock underground.[3]
    • 1962, Bill Wannan, Modern Australian humour‎[1], page 176:
      Polish Joe was a bogger, a man who shifted unbelievable quantities of dirt away from the face from which it had been blown, and into trucks for dumping in the underground bins each day.
    1. A machine which shovels up and carries ore and/or rock in an underground mine
      Coordinate terms: loader, steam shovel, rock truck, dump truck
  6. (Australia, slang) A lavatory: a room for urination and defecation.
    So what if you kissed some bogan mole in the bogger at some 3rd-rate bar?
  7. (Northern England, derogatory, slang) Someone of the goth, skate, punk, or emo subculture.
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Adjective[edit]

bogger

  1. comparative form of bog: more bog

Etymology 2[edit]

From bugger.

Noun[edit]

bogger (plural boggers)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of bugger. Used particularly as an epithet or term of camaraderie or endearment.[4]
    • 1986, Ian Breakwell., Ian Breakwell's diary, 1964-1985:
      "You bloody bogger...!
    • 1998, Alan Sillitoe, The Broken Chariot:
      "You're a funny bogger, though. I never could mek yo' out. Ye're just like one of the lads, but sometimes there's a posh bogger trying to scramble out."
    • 1992, Alan Sillitoe, Saturday night and Sunday morning:
      "The dirty bogger! He's got a fancy woman! Nine times a week!"

References[edit]

  1. ^ 1966, Sidney John Baker, The Australian language, page 223.
  2. ^ “bogger”, entry in 2004 [1990], George Morley Story, W. J. Kirwin, John David Allison Widdowson, Dictionary of Newfoundland English.
  3. ^ “bogger”, entry in 1989, Joan Hughes, Australian words and their origins.
  4. ^ “Bogger”, entry in 1990, Leslie Dunkling, A dictionary of epithets and terms of address.
  • Simon Elmes (2005) Talking for Britain: a journey through the nation's dialects
  • Eric Partridge (2006) The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: A-I
  • Irving L. Allen (1983) The language of ethnic conflict: social organization and lexical culture

Afrikaans[edit]

Noun[edit]

bogger (plural boggers)

  1. Alternative spelling of bokker

Interjection[edit]

bogger

  1. Alternative spelling of bokker
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