boggerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From various senses of bog +‎ -er.

名詞

bogger (plural boggers)

1. Someone associated with or who works in a bog.
   • 2000, Lorraine Heath., Never Love a Cowboy, page 51:

     “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.”

2. (Australia, slang) A man who catches nippers (snapping prawns).
3. (originally UK, derogatory) 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.

   Synonyms: boglander, (Ireland) culchie; see also Thesaurus:country bumpkin

4. (Newfoundland, Labrador) A dare, a task that children challenge each other to complete.
5. (Australia, Western Australia, slang) Someone who works to shovel ore or waste rock underground.
   • 1962, Bill Wannan, Modern Australian humour‎, page 176:

     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.

   1. A machine which shovels up and carries ore and/or rock in an underground mine

      Coordinate terms: loader, steam shovel, rock truck, dump truck

6. (Australia, slang) A lavatory: a room for urination and defecation.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bathroom

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

7. (Northern England, derogatory, slang) A member of the goth, skate, punk, or emo subculture.

派生語

• mud bogger

関連する語

• bogtrotter (Ireland)
• bog warrior (Ireland)
• bogman (Ireland)
• nipper-bogger (Australia)

形容詞

bogger

1. comparative form of bog: more bog

語源 2

From bugger.

名詞

bogger (plural boggers)

1. Pronunciation spelling of bugger, used particularly as an epithet or term of camaraderie or endearment.
   • 1986, Ian Breakwell., Ian Breakwell's diary, 1964-1985:

     "You bloody bogger...!

   • 1998, Alan Sillitoe, The Broken Chariot:

     "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."

   • 1992, Alan Sillitoe, Saturday night and Sunday morning:

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

参照

• Simon Elmes (2005) Talking for Britain: a journey through the nation's dialects
• Eric Partridge (2006) The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: A-I
• Irving L. Allen (1983) The language of ethnic conflict: social organization and lexical culture