boggerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From various senses of bog +‎ -er.

名詞

bogger (複数形 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).^[1]
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.
4. (Newfoundland, Labrador) A dare, a task that children challenge each other to complete.^[2]
5. (Australia, Western Australia, slang) Someone who works to shovel ore or waste rock underground.^[3]
   • 1962, Bill Wannan, Modern Australian humour‎^[1], 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.

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

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

同意語

• (Irishman, particularly a rural one): Boglander, boglander
• (lavatory): See Thesaurus:bathroom

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 (複数形 boggers)

1. Pronunciation spelling of bugger. Used particularly as an epithet or term of camaraderie or endearment.^[4]
   • 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!"

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