In Australia, "bogey" (or "bogie") primarily means to swim or bathe, deriving from an Aboriginal word, and is famously used in names like the 'Bogey Hole', a natural swimming pool. It's an older term, still understood, especially in places with swimming holes, but less common now than its American English counterpart "boogie" for dancing or "booger" for nasal mucus.
But while working at the National Dictionary Centre, he discovered it was documented in 1788, stemming from the word 'bogey' from the Aboriginal Dharug language, meaning to swim. By the mid-19th Century, 'bogey holes' had become places where you could swim.
The Aboriginal Dharug word for swimming – “bogey” is widely used to describe waterholes across the country now known as Bogey Holes.
slang a piece of dried mucus discharged from the nose.
Tired, broken or ruined; “These bathers are buggered now.” An annoying thing; “These avo-stained bathers a bit of a bugger.” An impolite instruction; “Bugger off and change into some clean bathers.”
Common Australian slang for a girl includes "Sheila" (older, sometimes dated or slightly derogatory), "chick," or just using general terms like "mate," "gal," or "lass," with context and tone being important, but "girl" is still widely used; some slang, like "moll," can refer to a girlfriend or a promiscuous woman, while "bogan" describes an unsophisticated person.
: a person who lives by begging for money, food, etc. 2. British, informal : a person who is regarded as lucky, unlucky, lazy, etc. I heard you won the contest! You lucky beggar!
The word bogey has several meanings. Entertainingly, the first meaning given in the Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners (and prefaced as 'informal British English') is 'a piece of nasal mucus'. The other meanings of the word may be less unpleasant but all have negative connotations.
Boujee (and bougie) can still be a put-down when someone is seen to be acting above their social status. However, boujee is now primarily used as an informal, positive term for when, say, everyday people treat themselves to something a little nicer or fancier than usual.
bogey(n.
1), on the notion of a "phantom" opponent, represented by the "ground score." The word was in vogue at the time in Britain through the popularity of a music-hall tune "Hush, Hush, Hush, Here Comes the Bogey Man." Bogey also was a fictional surname in stories in 1880s.
"Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy, Oi Oi Oi" (often written as "Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi") is a patriotic Australian sports chant, a rallying cry of national pride, originating from older British cheers like "Oggy Oggy Oggy," with "Aussie" being slang for Australian, and "Oi" functioning as an emphatic interjection, similar to "Hey!" or "Go!". It's used at sporting events, sometimes considered a bit cheesy or "cringey" by some Australians, but generally seen as an inclusive way to support national teams.
Bogie Drive. A truck with two drive axles at the rear. Bogie drive prime movers are the most common type of prime mover in Australia. The drive is transmitted from one axle to the other by means of a short drive shaft called a jack-shaft. The bogie drive axle group is often referred to as a "tandem axle group".
Woop Woop is used to refer to a place in the middle of nowhere. People use it to signify that a location is far away, unfamiliar to them, and difficult to get to.
Mackenzie, Aurukun Diary: A bogey is the Queensland outback word for a bath or bathe. A bogey hole is a 'swimming or bathing hole'. The verb is rare now in Australian English. source... SCHOOL OF LITERATURE, LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITY.
Australians call flip-flops "thongs" because the footwear has a strap, or "thong," that goes between the big toe and the second toe, a term derived from Old English for a strip of leather. This naming reflects the shoe's structure, similar to how thong underwear has a string that passes between the buttocks, though the footwear term is much older than the undergarment's popular usage in the 1990s.
jugs(n.) "a woman's breasts," 1920, in Australian slang, short for milk jugs, from jug (n.).
It originated as slang in the African American community, used disparagingly to describe wealthier or upwardly mobile people, usually other Black people, who were seen to be socially pretentious. It is now also used as a term of mild censure, referring in general to people who have expensive tastes.
The words are slang and used in an informal way in spoken conversation. "Bougie" is used as an adjective to describe someone from a lower class status who acts like they are rich and live a lavish, wealthy life.
Boujee / Bougie. Meaning: Describes something fancy, luxurious, or high-end—often in an over-the-top or glamorous way. Gen Z uses “boujee” to talk about anything that feels expensive, exclusive, or extra special. Example: “The hotel was so boujee, everyone had their own personal butler.”
Bogey. “Bogey” is believed to reference the Scottish term “bogle,” which was a Scottish goblin as far back as the 16th Century and “Bogey-man” was a widely used term for a goblin or devil. The term bogey meaning one over par became common in America around the middle of the 20th Century.
Vulgar. mucus from the nose. Informal. a disrespectful or supercilious person.
bogie (plural bogies) (chiefly US, slang) A marijuana cigarette; a joint.
Bugger or buggar can at times be considered as a mild swear word. In the United Kingdom the term has been used commonly to imply dissatisfaction, refer to someone or something whose behaviour is in some way inconvenient or perhaps as an expression of surprise.
(colloquial) The buttocks.
bum panhandler vagabond. STRONG. asker borrower deadbeat hobo homeless person mendicant rustler scrounger supplicant tramp unhoused person.