bogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: boggers
Etymology: From various senses of bog + -er.
Senses: examples: text: “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.”
ref: 2000, Lorraine Heath., Never Love a Cowboy, page 51:
glosses: Someone associated with or who works in a bog.
glosses: A man who catches nippers (snapping prawns).
synonyms: word: boglander
word: culchie
word: bogger
word: bogtrotter
word: boor
word: bucolic
word: bydlo
word: culchie
word: carl
word: churl
word: corncob
word: cornhusker
word: country bumpkin
word: country cousin
word: clodhopper
word: dubbo
word: joskin
word: hayseed
word: hillbilly
word: hick
word: hob
word: hobnail
word: hog-rubber
word: honyock
word: hunk
word: lob
word: promdi
word: provincial
word: redneck
word: rube
word: rustic
word: woolly back
word: yokel
word: boglander
extra: an Irishman, now (Ireland, derogatory) a yokel, an Irishman from the countryside or (sometimes) from anywhere other than Dublin and the Pale
glosses: 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.
qualifier: Labrador
glosses: A dare, a task that children challenge each other to complete.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1962, Bill Wannan, Modern Australian humour, page 176:
glosses: Someone who works to shovel ore or waste rock underground.
glosses: Someone who works to shovel ore or waste rock underground.
A machine which shovels up and carries ore and/or rock in an underground mine
coordinate_terms: loader
steam shovel
rock truck
dump truck
examples: text: So what if you kissed some bogan mole in the bogger at some 3rd-rate bar?
synonyms: word: bathroom
word: latrine
word: necessarium
word: toilet
word: toilet room
word: urinal
word: water closet
word: WC
word: cloaca
word: closet
word: jacques
word: kocay
word: siege
word: cludgie
word: neddy
word: netty
word: shield
word: six
word: facilities
word: ladies and gentlemen
word: lavatory
word: lavabo
word: necessary
word: necessary room
word: office
word: office of ease
word: place
word: potty
word: privy
word: small room
word: smallest room
word: throne room
word: cottage
word: geography
word: House of Lords
word: khazi
word: usual offices
word: restroom
word: teahouse
word: tearoom
word: washroom
raw_tags: used in Canada
word: closet of decency
word: closet of ease
word: house of office
word: necessary place
word: purging place
word: vault
word: withdraught
word: wardrobe
word: shitter
word: urination station
word: bog
word: carsey
word: crapper
word: karzy
word: lats
word: lav
word: lavvy
word: loo
word: thunderbox
raw_tags: in Australia
word: can
word: john
word: johnny
word: bogger
word: brasco
word: dike
raw_tags: in New Zealand
word: dunny
raw_tags: in New Zealand
word: jacks
word: jakes
glosses: A lavatory: a room for urination and defecation.
glosses: A member of the goth, skate, punk, or emo subculture.
Derived terms: mud bogger
Related terms: word: bogtrotter
word: bog warrior
word: bogman
word: nipper-bogger