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Skate vs Bogger - What's the difference?

skate | bogger |

As a verb skate

is .

As a noun 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 .

skate

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

(en noun)
  • A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice.
  • abbreviated form of ice skate or roller skate
  • The act of skateboarding
    • There's time for a quick skate before dinner.
  • The act of roller skating or ice skating
    • The boys had a skate every morning when the lake was frozen.

    Verb

    (skat)
  • To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
  • To skateboard
    • Derived terms
    * get one's skates on * roller-skate * skateboard * skate on thin ice * skatepark * skater

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) skata.

    Noun

    (wikipedia skate) (en noun)
  • A fish of the family Rajidae in the superorder Batoidea (rays]]) which inhabit most seas. Skates generally have small heads with protruding , and wide [[fin#Noun, fins attached to a flat body.

    • Anagrams

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    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 .