boggers

Noun

bogger (plural boggers)

1. Someone associated with or who works in a bog.
   • “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.”2000, Lorraine Heath., Never Love a Cowboy, page 51
2. (Australia, slang) A man who catches nippers (snapping prawns).
3. (derogatory) Synonym of boglander: an Irishman, now (Ireland, derogatory) a yokel, an Irishman from the countryside or (sometimes) from anywhere other than Dublin and the Pale.

   Synonyms:

   boglander, culchie, bogtrotter, boor, bucolic, bydlo, carl, churl, corncob, cornhusker

4. (Newfoundland, Labrador) A dare, a task that children challenge each other to complete.
5. (Australia, Western, slang) Someone who works to shovel ore or waste rock underground.
   • 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.1962, Bill Wannan, Modern Australian humour, page 176
   1. (Australia, Western, slang) A machine which shovels up and carries ore and/or rock in an underground mine

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