On todays news was the edifying article that "Bogan" has now made it into the dictionary. Great, if its in the dictionary, I can use it as a scrabble word!
On todays news was the edifying article that "Bogan" has now made it into the dictionary. Great, if its in the dictionary, I can use it as a scrabble word!
Our daughter was going to put hair extension pieces in her hair for a wedding she went to - but first attached one to the 3 year old's hair - his father had a fit! Thought he immediately looked like a bogan. When he took it out the grandson cried - unlike his father, he liked it.
Dictionary definition: Bogans are uncouth, unlettered, vacuous, uneducated, coarse, ill-mannered, loutish, brutish, self-centered, doof-doof music-loving, oxygen-wasting specimens, frequently found in the public bars of down-market pubs. They specialise in such intellectual pursuits as doing burnouts in bush camping areas at 2am, probably as a chemical result of their basic diet of Big Macs and bourbon and cola. They have few, if any, redeeming qualities, apart from the unique ability to absorb repeated baseball bat blows to the cranium without apparent effect and/or harm. This is believed to be due to a total lack of brain cells inside the cranium, which is in itself thought to be related to too much tattoo ink being absorbed into the body. Classical music at very high volume, especially Mahler's Resurrection Symphony, is an effective repellent, especially if applied about 4.30am, just after they have fallen into a drunken slumber.
One of them lives over my back fence. Mercifully, he seems to be a FIFO worker and is not often home.
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A slightly more formal response to CG's question, taken from the website of The Australian:
THEY have been around for decades, wearing a mullet, black jeans and listening to heavy metal, and now the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) officially recognises bogans.
The word bogan has been included in the dictionary's list of new word entries for June, sandwiched between bling and bustler.
The OED, which calls itself the definitive record of the English language, defines a bogan as an Australian and New Zealand colloquial "depreciative term for unfashionable, uncouth, or unsophisticated person, esp. of low social status".
The origin of the word is unclear, but it may have originated in Australia.
The Australian National University says the term became widespread after it was used in the late 1980s by the fictitious schoolgirl Kylie Mole in the television series The Comedy Company.
Last year the University of Auckland linguistic students had a light-hearted look at what defined a bogan.
They found New Zealanders under the age of 30 were more likely to consider being a bogan a good thing compared with those over 30, who thought of bogans in a more negative light.
Younger respondents had a very clear and distinct image of bogans - mullet hair and black singlets for the men, boots and miniskirts for the women. They were also seen as petrolheads driving Holden Commodores.
New Zealand has its own "Professor Bogan".
Waikato University's Dave Snell graduated after completing his thesis entitled The Everyday Life of Bogans: Identity and Community Among Heavy Metal Fans.
He attended heavy metal concerts to study bogans in a social setting and interviewed them to see how belonging to the group affected other aspects of their lives.
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