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bogan en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio
• /ˈboʊɡən/

Etymology

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).

Meanings

1. (Australia, New-Zealand, qualifier:derogatory stereotype, slang) An unsophisticated person from a working class background.
   • The Reservoir I grew up in was populated by menacing, toothless Torana-driving bogans, crushed menthol-smoking pensioners and toddlers who swore. 2009, Catherine Deveny, Free to a Good Home, page 47:
   • Bogans were Lockie's least favorite kind of people. 1999, Tim Winton, Lockie Leonard, Scumbuster, page 6:
2. (New-Zealand, derogatory, ethnic, slang, slur) An Anglo-Celtic member of a lower socioeconomic group, stereotypically classified as wearing black jumpers or black concert T-shirts.
3. (New-Zealand, derogatory, slang) A petrolhead.

Forms

Relateds

boogan · booner · cashed-up bogan · hoon · chav

Synonyms

bopper · trev · steek · dresser · gazza · skeet · chav · charver · roadman · stig · benny · hood rat · white trash (poor Anglo-Celtic person) · yarco · thugette · smackhead · scumbag · adlay · scuffer · vic · white trash · westy (poor Anglo-Celtic person) · scratter · Westie · spide · brush · rudie · scrote · radgie · redneck · herbert · scoundrel · nob · scally · bevan (poor Anglo-Celtic person) · ocker · poor white trash · Barry boy · charva · sham · bam · sweeper · westie (poor Anglo-Celtic person) · smick · scunner · ned · scanger · yobbo · dobber · dumbo · rudeboy · schemie · scobe · scrub · snoopy · eshay · booner (poor Anglo-Celtic person) · scrubber · prole · bogan · pikey · puffy · bazza · wigger · yob · pleb · kev · townie · knacker · mev · scutter · trailer trash · thug · skanger · gippo

Translations (13)

mi tautara (unsophisticated or lower class person) · cmn 鄉巴佬 /乡巴佬 (unsophisticated or lower class person) · th ลูกทุ่ง (unsophisticated or lower class person) · de Proll (unsophisticated or lower class person) · ru лох (unsophisticated or lower class person) · th ชาวบ้าน (unsophisticated or lower class person) · th คนบ้านนอก (unsophisticated or lower class person) · ja 田舎者 (unsophisticated or lower class person) · th ตาสีตาสา (unsophisticated or lower class person) · pl bydło (unsophisticated or lower class person) · cmn 土包子 (unsophisticated or lower class person) · fi maalainen (unsophisticated or lower class person) · ru быдло (unsophisticated or lower class person)

wikipedia: Bogan Gate · wikipedia: Bogan River

bogan en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio
• /ˈboʊɡən/

Etymology

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).

Meanings

1. (derogatory, rare) To act like a bogan.
   • If you're coming in to cause trouble, don't bother […] bogan it up at home. 2008, Lord Mayor Robert Doyle, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

Forms

wikipedia: Bogan Gate · wikipedia: Bogan River

bogan en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio
• /ˈboʊɡən/

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps a contraction of pokelogan influenced by bog (or bogue), or a blend of logan (from pokelogan) + bog.

Meanings

1. (Canada, Maine) Any narrow water or creek, particularly a tranquil backwater.
   • All around the shores of the narrow bogan crowded the beasts, watching with wide, fascinated eyes the flight and fall of these disastrous missiles. 2001, Charles G. D. Roberts, Seán Virgo, Kindred of the Wild, page 130:
2. (Canada, North, Ontario, Western, derogatory, offensive, slang) An indigenous person.
   • 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. 2015 December 8, Tanya Talaga, “One rape. A hate crime. Thunder Bay's simmering divides come to light”, in Toronto Star:
   • "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 February 7, Lenard Monkman, “Indigenous people say racism-tainted drive-by violence all too common”, in CBC News:
   • 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? 2017 June 1, “Evidence from First Nation student who survived Thunder Bay river attack resurfaces following eye-witness claim”, in National News:
   • Negative Stereotypes: Indians, natives, bogans, nates, […] 2013, Feathers of Hope: A First Nations Youth Action Plan, archived from the original on 24 Apr 2016, page 68:

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