bogan

See also: Bogan

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboʊɡən/

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• Rhymes: -əʊɡən

Etymology 1

Unknown. First appeared in Australia in the 1980s. Possibly in reference to supposedly unsophisticated people from remote outback places such as the Bogan River or Bogan Gate (cf. dubbo from Dubbo).

Noun

bogan (plural bogans)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory stereotype) An unsophisticated person from a working class background.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:chav

   • 1999, Tim Winton, Lockie Leonard, Scumbuster, page 6:

     Bogans were Lockie's least favorite kind of people.

   • 2009, Catherine Deveny, Free to a Good Home, page 47:

     The Reservoir I grew up in was populated by menacing, toothless Torana-driving bogans, crushed menthol-smoking pensioners and toddlers who swore.

2. (New Zealand, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) An Anglo-Celtic member of a lower socioeconomic group, stereotypically classified as wearing black jumpers or black concert T-shirts.
3. (New Zealand, slang, derogatory) A petrolhead.

Synonyms

• (poor Anglo-Celtic person): bevan (Australia, Queensland), westy / westie (Australia (esp. Sydney), NZ (esp. Auckland)), booner (Australia, Canberra), white trash (US)

Translations

unsophisticated or lower class person

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 土包子 (zh) (tǔbāozi), 鄉巴佬／乡巴佬 (zh) (xiāngbalǎo)

• Finnish: maalainen (fi)
• German: Proll (de) m
• Japanese: 田舎者 (ja) (いなか もの, inakamono)
• Polish: bydło (pl)
• Russian: (slang) лох (ru) m (lox), быдло (ru) (bydlo)

See also

• cashed up bogan
• hoon
• booner
• chav

Verb

bogan (third-person singular simple present bogans, present participle boganning, simple past and past participle boganned)

1. (rare, derogatory) To act like a bogan.
   • 2008, Lord Mayor Robert Doyle, (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1]:

     If you're coming in to cause trouble, don't bother […] bogan it up at home.

Etymology 2

Unknown. Perhaps a conflation of logan (from pokelogan) +‎ bog.

Noun

bogan (plural bogans)

1. (Canada) Any narrow water or creek, particularly a tranquil backwater.
   • 2001, Charles G. D. Roberts, Seán Virgo, Kindred of the Wild, page 130:

     All around the shores of the narrow bogan crowded the beasts, watching with wide, fascinated eyes the flight and fall of these disastrous missiles.

2. (Canada, North Western Ontario, slang, derogatory, offensive) An indigenous person.
   • 2013, Feathers of Hope: A First Nations Youth Action Plan‎^[2], archived from the original on 24 April 2016, page 68:

     Negative Sterotypes: Indians, natives, bogans, nates[.]

   • 2015 December 8, Tanya Talaga, “One rape. A hate crime. Thunder Bay's simmering divides come to light”, in Toronto Star:

     Greg Quachegan, a teacher at Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School, was walking with his young daughters when someone yelled, “Bogans,” at them. He has no idea what it means, but it’s a slur aboriginal people hear often.

   • 2017 February 7, Lenard Monkman, “Indigenous people say racism-tainted drive-by violence all too common”, in CBC News:

     "There's young men, on the weekends, they will throw beer bottles at you and yell out 'bogan' or 'squaw' or 'whore,'" said Deanne Hupfield, who grew up in Thunder Bay.

   • 2017 June 1, “Evidence from First Nation student who survived Thunder Bay river attack resurfaces following eye-witness claim”, in National News‎^[3]:

     Is that the same blue truck that is throwing rocks out the passenger window and screaming at natives calling them bogans walking on the street?

Anagrams

• Gabon, goban, obang

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboɡɑn/, [ˈboɣɑn]

Noun

bogan

1. plural of boga

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboɡan/ [ˈbo.ɣ̞ãn]
• Rhymes: -oɡan
• Syllabification: bo‧gan

Verb

bogan

1. third-person plural present indicative of bogar

Yagara

Verb

bogan

1. sleep

References

• Eipper, Christopher, STATEMENT OF THE ORIGIN, CONDITION, AND PROSPECTS, OF THE GERMAN MISSION TO THE ABORIGINES AT MORETON BAY, CONDUCTED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN NEW SOUTH WALES, 1841.