bogger
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From various senses of bog + -er.
Noun edit
bogger (plural boggers)
- 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.”
- (Australia, slang) A man who catches nippers (snapping prawns).[1]
- (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.
- (Newfoundland, Labrador) A dare, a task that children challenge each other to complete.[2]
- (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.
- A machine which shovels up and carries ore and/or rock in an underground mine
- Coordinate terms: loader, steam shovel, rock truck, dump truck
- (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?
- (Northern England, derogatory, slang) Someone of the goth, skate, punk, or emo subculture.
Synonyms edit
- (Irishman, particularly a rural one): Boglander, boglander
- (lavatory): See Thesaurus:bathroom
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
- bogtrotter (Ireland)
- bog warrior (Ireland)
- bogman (Ireland)
- nipper-bogger (Australia)
Adjective edit
bogger
- comparative form of bog: more bog
Etymology 2 edit
From bugger.
Noun edit
bogger (plural boggers)
- 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
- ^ 1966, Sidney John Baker, The Australian language, page 223.
- ^ “bogger”, entry in 2004 [1990], George Morley Story, W. J. Kirwin, John David Allison Widdowson, Dictionary of Newfoundland English.
- ^ “bogger”, entry in 1989, Joan Hughes, Australian words and their origins.
- ^ “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)
- Alternative spelling of bokker
Interjection edit
bogger
- Alternative spelling of bokker