Meaning of bogger | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone associated with or who works in a bog.
2. Pronunciation spelling of bugger, used particularly as an epithet or term of camaraderie or endearment.
   alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
3. A man who catches nippers (snapping prawns).
   Australia, slang
4. 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.
   derogatory
5. A dare, a task that children challenge each other to complete.
   Newfoundland
6. Someone who works to shovel ore or waste rock underground.
   Australia, Western, slang
7. A machine which shovels up and carries ore and/or rock in an underground mine
   Australia, Western, slang
8. A lavatory: a room for urination and defecation.
   Australia, slang
9. A member of the goth, skate, punk, or emo subculture.
   Northern-England, derogatory, slang

Examples

““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.””

“Polish Joe was a bogger, a man who shifted unbelievable quantities of dirt away from the face from which it had been blown, and into trucks for dumping in the underground bins each day.”

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

“"You bloody bogger...!”

“"You're a funny bogger, though. I never could mek yo' out. Ye're just like one of the lads, but sometimes there's a posh bogger trying to scramble out."”

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

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