bogger

  1. Noun.  Someone associated with or who works in a bog.
  2. Noun.  (Australia, slang) A man who catches nippers (snapping prawns). '''1966''', Sidney John Baker, ''The Australian language'', [http://books.google.com/books?id=ckRCAAAAIAAJ&q=bogger&dq=bogger&lr=&pgis=1* page 223]..
  3. Noun.  (Ireland, derogatory) Someone not from a city.
  4. Noun.  (Ireland, derogatory) Someone not from Dublin (from outside the The Pale).
  5. Noun.  (Newfoundland, Labrador) A dare, a task that children challenge each other to complete.[http://books.google.com/books?id=XrVbk3EndTcC&pg=PA55&dq=bogger+Newfoundland&lr= “bogger”], entry in '''2004''' [1990], George Morley Story, W. J. Kirwin, John David Allison Widdowson, ''Dictionary of Newfoundland English''..
  6. Noun.  (Australia, Western Australia) Someone who works to shovel ore or waste rock underground. [http://books.google.com/books?id=B7tZAAAAMAAJ&q=bogger&dq=bogger&lr=&pgis=1 “bogger”], entry in '''1989''', Joan Hughes, ''Australian words and their origins''..
  7. Noun.  (Australia, slang) A toilet.
  8. Noun.  (Northern England, derogatory) Someone of the goth, skate, punk, or emo subculture.
  9. Noun.  (eye dialect of, bugger) ''Used particularly as an epithet or term of camaraderie or endearment''.[http://books.google.com/books?id=5QIv39cbUMYC&pg=PA62&dq=bogger&lr= “Bogger”], entry in '''1990''', Leslie Dunkling, ''A dictionary of epithets and terms of address''..

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