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bogger

Etymology 1 n. 1 Someone associated with or who works in a bog. 2 (context Australia slang English) A man who catches nippers (snapping prawns). '''1966''', Sidney John Baker, ''The Australian language'', . 3 (context Ireland derogatory English) Someone not from a city. 4 (context Ireland derogatory English) Someone not from Dublin (from outside the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Pale). 5 (context Newfoundland Labrador English) A dare, a task that children challenge each other to complete., entry in '''2004''' [1990], George Morley Story, W. J. Kirwin, John David Allison Widdowson, ''Dictionary of Newfoundland English''. 6 (context Australia Western Australia slang English) Someone who works to shovel ore or waste rock underground. , entry in '''1989''', Joan Hughes, ''Australian words and their origins''. 7 (context Australia slang English) A toilet. 8 (context Northern England derogatory slang English) Someone of the goth, skate, punk, or emo subculture. Etymology 2

n. (eye dialect of bugger English) ''Used particularly as an epithet or term of camaraderie or endearment''., entry in '''1990''', Leslie Dunkling, ''A dictionary of epithets and terms of address''.

Usage examples of "bogger".

I had a pleasant enough voice, but I knew only a little more of bardic magic than the average bogger, and that only from half-remembered conversations with my father when I was very young.

Atomic Bomb, who had succeeded the Bogger Man as a means of frightening children, one of the younger calves bawled.

At mention of Atomic Bomb, who had succeeded the Bogger Man as a means of frightening children, one of the younger calves bawled.

Blackwarren in the first place, lording it over the peat boggers and the blackflies.

Simon would tell me that I shouldn't let the boggers win, I should stand up to them, show them that I wasn't afraid.