Bogger

Quick meaning: Bogger is a noun meaning Someone associated with or who works in a bog.

Meaning

Someone associated with or who works in a bog.

More Meanings

1. (Australia, slang) A man who catches nippers (snapping prawns).
2. (Newfoundland, Labrador) A dare, a task that children challenge each other to complete.
3. (Australia, Western Australia, slang) Someone who works to shovel ore or waste rock underground.
4. (Australia, slang) A lavatory: a room for urination and defecation.
5. (Northern England, derogatory, slang) A member of the goth, skate, punk, or emo subculture.
6. comparative form of bog: more bog
7. (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.

Example Sentences

"You bloody bogger...!

"The dirty bogger! He's got a fancy woman! Nine times a week!"

So what if you kissed some bogan mole in the bogger at some 3rd-rate bar?

“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.”

Word Forms

• boggers

Synonyms for bogger

Depending on context, synonyms include boglander, culchie, bogtrotter, bucolic, bydlo, carl.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include boglander, boggard, bogtrotter, boggards, boggart, bogeyperson.

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