Bogger vs Null - What's the difference?
bogger | null |
Someone associated with or who works in a bog.
* 2000 Lorraine Heath. Never Love a Cowboy ,
(Australia, slang) A man who catches nippers (snapping prawns). 1966 , Sidney John Baker, The Australian language ,
(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.
(Australia, Western Australia, slang) Someone who works to shovel ore or waste rock underground.
* 1962 , Bill Wannan, Modern Australian humour ,
(Australia, slang) A toilet.
(Northern England, derogatory, slang) Someone of the goth, skate, punk, or emo subculture.
Used particularly as an epithet or term of camaraderie or endearment''.
* 1986 , Ian Breakwell. Ian Breakwell's diary, 1964-1985 ,
* 1998 , Alan Sillitoe, The Broken Chariot ,
* 1992 , Alan Sillitoe, Saturday night and Sunday morning ,
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between bogger and null
is that bogger is someone associated with or who works in a bog or bogger can be used particularly as an epithet or term of camaraderie or endearment''[http://booksgooglecom/books?id=5qiv39cbumyc&pg=pa62&dq=bogger&lr= “bogger”], entry in 1990 , leslie dunkling, ''a dictionary of epithets and terms of address while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.bogger
English
Etymology 1
From .Noun
(en noun)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.”
page 223.
“bogger”], entry in 2004 [1990, George Morley Story, W. J. Kirwin, John David Allison Widdowson, Dictionary of Newfoundland English .
“bogger”, entry in 1989 , Joan Hughes, Australian words and their origins .
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.
Etymology 2
From bugger.Noun
(en noun)“Bogger”, entry in 1990 , Leslie Dunkling, ''A dictionary of epithets and terms of address .
- "You bloody bogger ...!
- "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."
- "The dirty bogger ! He's got a fancy woman! Nine times a week!"
References
null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.