# bogan
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈboʊɡən/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊɡən

### Etymology 1

Unknown. First appeared in Australia in the 1980s. Possibly in reference to supposedly unsophisticated people from remote outback places such as the Bogan River or Bogan Gate (cf. dubbo from Dubbo).

#### Noun

bogan (plural bogans)
* (Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory stereotype) An unsophisticated person from a working class background.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:chav
** 1999, Tim Winton, Lockie Leonard, Scumbuster, page 6:Bogans were Lockie's least favorite kind of people.
** 2009, Catherine Deveny, Free to a Good Home, page 47:The Reservoir I grew up in was populated by menacing, toothless Torana-driving bogans, crushed menthol-smoking pensioners and toddlers who swore.
* (New Zealand, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) An Anglo-Celtic member of a lower socioeconomic group, stereotypically classified as wearing black jumpers or black concert T-shirts.
* (New Zealand, slang, derogatory) A petrolhead.

##### Synonyms

* (poor Anglo-Celtic person): bevan (Australia, Queensland), westy / westie (Australia (esp. Sydney), NZ (esp. Auckland)), booner (Australia, Canberra), white trash (US)

##### See also

* cashed up bogan
* hoon
* booner
* chav
* boogan

#### Verb

bogan (third-person singular simple present bogans, present participle boganning, simple past and past participle boganned)
* (rare, derogatory) To act like a bogan.
** 2008, Lord Mayor Robert Doyle, (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎:If you're coming in to cause trouble, don't bother […] bogan it up at home.

### Etymology 2

Uncertain. Perhaps a contraction of pokelogan influenced by bog (or bogue), or a blend of logan (from pokelogan) +‎ bog.

#### Noun

bogan (plural bogans)
* (Canada, Maine) Any narrow water or creek, particularly a tranquil backwater.
** 2001, Charles G. D. Roberts, Seán Virgo, Kindred of the Wild, page 130:All around the shores of the narrow bogan crowded the beasts, watching with wide, fascinated eyes the flight and fall of these disastrous missiles.
* (Canada, North Western Ontario, slang, derogatory, offensive) An indigenous person.
** 2013, Feathers of Hope: A First Nations Youth Action Plan‎, archived from the original on 24 April 2016, page 68:Negative Stereotypes: Indians, natives, bogans, nates, […]
** 2015 December 8, Tanya Talaga, “One rape. A hate crime. Thunder Bay's simmering divides come to light”, in Toronto Star:Greg Quachegan, a teacher at Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School, was walking with his young daughters when someone yelled, “Bogans,” at them. He has no idea what it means, but it’s a slur aboriginal people hear often.
** 2017 February 7, Lenard Monkman, “Indigenous people say racism-tainted drive-by violence all too common”, in CBC News:"There's young men, on the weekends, they will throw beer bottles at you and yell out 'bogan' or 'squaw' or 'whore,'" said Deanne Hupfield, who grew up in Thunder Bay.
** 2017 June 1, “Evidence from First Nation student who survived Thunder Bay river attack resurfaces following eye-witness claim”, in National News‎:Is that the same blue truck that is throwing rocks out the passenger window and screaming at natives calling them bogans walking on the street?

### Anagrams

* Gabon, goban, obang

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈboɡɑn/, [ˈboɣɑn]

### Noun

bogan
* plural of boga

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈboɡan/ [ˈbo.ɣ̞ãn]
* Rhymes: -oɡan
* Syllabification: bo‧gan

### Verb

bogan
* third-person plural present indicative of bogar

## Yagara
### Verb

bogan
* sleep

### References

* Eipper, Christopher, STATEMENT OF THE ORIGIN, CONDITION, AND PROSPECTS, OF THE GERMAN MISSION TO THE ABORIGINES AT MORETON BAY, CONDUCTED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN NEW SOUTH WALES, 1841.