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bogan | bogon |

As a proper noun bogan

is a river of central to northern new south wales, australia, a tributary to the darling.

As a noun bogon is

(slang) the imaginary elementary particle of bogosity; the anti-particle to the cluon.

bogan

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Australia, slang, derogatory) A person perceived to be unsophisticated or of a lower class background.
  • * 1999 , , 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.
  • (Australia, slang, obsolete) Something of poor quality.
  • (New Zealand, slang, derogatory) 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.
  • (Canada, North Western Ontario, slang, derogatory) An aboriginal person perceived as having gangster ties.
    • Synonyms
    * (unsophisticated person) dag (Australia), chav (British), redneck (US) * (poor Anglo-Celtic person) bevan , white trash (US)
    See also
    * cashed up bogan * hoon * booner * chav

    Verb

    (bogann)
  • (rare) To act like a bogan.
    • "If you're coming in to cause trouble, don't bother ... bogan it up at home." - Lord Mayor Robert Doyle [http://www.optuszoo.com.au/article/news/news_latest/news_latest_ndm/620]

    Etymology 2

    Apparently a conflation of logan'' (from ''pokelogan'') with ''bog .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Canada) 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.

    Anagrams

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    bogon

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) The imaginary elementary particle of bogosity; the anti-particle to the cluon.
  • * 1996 , "John Novak", Re: TOR is Fucking with Us All'' (on newsgroup ''rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan )
    • Chain book sellers are, by and large, bogon and bozon emitters like nothing you've ever seen.
  • (Internet, slang) An invalid Internet Protocol packet, particularly one sent from an address that is not in use.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "bogon")

    Derived terms

    * bogon filter

    See also

    * bogosity * cluon

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