bogger
Noun
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Noun
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.”
- 2000 Lorraine Heath. Never Love a Cowboy, page 51 ↗,
- (Australia, slang) A man who catches nippers (snapping prawns).
- (originally UK, derogatory) Synonym of Boglander: an Irishman, now (Irish, 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.
- (Australia, Western Australia, slang) Someone who works to shovel ore or waste rock underground.
- (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.
- (Irishman, particularly a rural one) Boglander, boglander
- (lavatory) See Thesaurus:bathroom
- bogtrotter (Ireland)
- bog warrior (Ireland)
- bogman (Ireland)
- nipper-bogger (Australia)
- comparative form of bog
bogger (plural boggers)
- Eye dialect spelling of bugger#English|bugger. Used particularly as an epithet or term of camaraderie or endearment.
- 1986, Ian Breakwell. Ian Breakwell's diary, 1964-1985,
- "You bloody bogger...!
- 1986, Ian Breakwell. Ian Breakwell's diary, 1964-1985,
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