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Fogger vs Bogger - What's the difference?

fogger | bogger |

As nouns the difference between fogger and bogger

is that fogger is the outlet at the end of a hose which is designed to atomize, spray, or mist the contents flowing through the hose typical use includes gaseous materials such as nitrous oxide in automotive applications, as well as fuels for turbine engines while 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 .

fogger

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The outlet at the end of a hose which is designed to atomize, spray, or mist the contents flowing through the hose. Typical use includes gaseous materials such as nitrous oxide in automotive applications, as well as fuels for turbine engines.
  • (lb) One who fogs; a pettifogger.
  • *1614 , Terence in English
  • *:A beggarly fogger .
  • *
  • *:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.

    • References

    * foggers] at [[w:Nitrous Express, Nitrous Express] * foggers] from [[w:Nitrous Oxide Systems, Nitrous Oxide Systems] ("NOS")

    See also

    *

    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 .