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Bogger vs Hogger - What's the difference?

bogger | hogger |

As nouns the difference between bogger and hogger

is that bogger is someone associated with or who works in a bog while hogger is agent noun of hog; one who, or that which, hogs.

bogger

English

Etymology 1

From .

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.”
  • (Australia, slang) A man who catches nippers (snapping prawns). 1966 , Sidney John Baker, The Australian language , page 223.
  • (Ireland, derogatory) Someone not from a city.
  • (Ireland, derogatory) Someone not from Dublin (from outside the ).
  • (Newfoundland, Labrador) A dare, a task that children challenge each other to complete. “bogger”], entry in 2004 [1990, George Morley Story, W. J. Kirwin, John David Allison Widdowson, Dictionary of Newfoundland English .
  • (Australia, Western Australia, slang) Someone who works to shovel ore or waste rock underground. “bogger”, entry in 1989 , Joan Hughes, Australian words and their origins .
  • * 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.
  • (Australia, slang) A toilet.
  • (Northern England, derogatory, slang) Someone of the goth, skate, punk, or emo subculture.
    • Related terms
    * bogtrotter (Ireland) “Bog-Trotter”, entry in 1984 , Eric Partridge, Paul Beale, A dictionary of slang and unconventional English , 8th edition — Any Irishman whatsoever. * bog warrior (Ireland) * bogman (Ireland) * nipper-bogger (Australia)

    Etymology 2

    From bugger.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Used particularly as an epithet or term of camaraderie or endearment''. “Bogger”, entry in 1990 , Leslie Dunkling, ''A dictionary of epithets and terms of address .
  • * 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!"

    References

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

    hogger

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Agent noun of hog; one who, or that which, hogs.
  • * 1994 , James J Wilhelm, Ezra Pound: The Tragic Years, 1925-1972
    • Against these heroes are the puritans, the hoggers of profit, the shysters, the obfuscators, the do-nothings.
  • A stocking without a foot, worn by coal miners at work.
  • (slang) A marijuana cigarette
  • (curling) A shot that comes to rest short of or on the far hog line and is removed from play
    • English agent nouns