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bogan
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The term bogan is a derogatory Australian and New Zealand slang word used to describe a person of lower working-class background, whose speech, clothing, attitude and behaviour exemplify values and behaviour considered unrefined or unsophisticated, similar ...
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n. A river of central to northern New South Wales, Australia, a tributary to the Darling.
Usage examples of bogan.
One-eyed Bogan, who had been the worst swearer in a rough shed, and he fell back on his bunk as if his previous remarks had exhausted him.
One-eyed, or Wall-eyed, Bogan, who had a broken nose, and the best side of whose face was reckoned the ugliest and most sinister--One-eyed Bogan thrust his face forward from the ring of darkness into the torchlight of salvation.
Also, he had been in a shearing-shed and in a shanty orgy with One-eyed Bogan, and knew the man.
One or two tall bushmen bowed their heads as if they had to, and One-eyed Bogan, with the blood washed from his face, stood with his hat off, glaring round to see if he could catch anyone sniggering.
One-eyed Bogan intended to shave and join the Army disguised as a lassie.
English gentlemen sharpers knocking about out back, you know, and Bogan might have been taking lessons from one.
But Bogan had caught sight of a log coming down the stream, end on, with a sharp, splintered end, and before Campbell knew where he was, the sharp end of the log caught the horse in the flank.
Campbell was only a few feet from the bank, but Bogan started to strip--to make the job look as big as possible, I suppose.
Then Bogan stood up and held his arms stiff down to his sides, opening and shutting his hands as if he was in great pain.
We got Bogan aboard and got some clothes on him, and took him ashore at Bourke to the new hospital.
Bogan, but the other jackaroo was a cur: he said he wanted the money that Bogan had robbed him of.
It was a rough shed, but everybody was eager to steer Bogan about--and, in fact, two of them had a fight about it one day.
Sometimes, in his sober moods, I used to have an idea that there must have been something behind the Bogan to account for him.
She brought a carrotty-headed youngster with her, and the first time I saw Bogan sitting on the veranda with that youngster on his knee I thought it was a good thing that he was blind.
The chaps often used to drop round and have a yarn with Bogan and cheer him up, and one evening I was sitting smoking with him, and yarning about old times, when he got very quiet all of a sudden, and I saw a tear drop from under one of his shutters and roll down his cheek.