Bogan vs Logan - What's the difference?
bogan | logan |
(Australia, slang, derogatory) A person perceived to be unsophisticated or of a lower class background.
* 1999 , , Lockie Leonard, Scumbuster ,
* 2009 , Catherine Deveny, Free to a Good Home ,
(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.
(rare) To act like a bogan.
(Canada) Any narrow water or creek, particularly a tranquil backwater.
* 2001 , Charles G. D. Roberts, Seán Virgo, Kindred of the Wild , page 130:
As proper nouns the difference between bogan and logan
is that bogan is a river of central to northern new south wales, australia, a tributary to the darling while logan is places in scotland, canada, us, and australia.bogan
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)page 6,
- Bogans were Lockie's least favorite kind of people.
page 47,
- The Reservoir I grew up in was populated by menacing, toothless Torana-driving bogans , crushed menthol-smoking pensioners and toddlers who swore.
Synonyms
* (unsophisticated person) dag (Australia), chav (British), redneck (US) * (poor Anglo-Celtic person) bevan , white trash (US)See also
* cashed up bogan * hoon * booner * chavVerb
(bogann)- "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)- All around the shores of the narrow bogan crowded the beasts, watching with wide, fascinated eyes the flight and fall of these disastrous missiles.
