Bogan

Australian sense possibly after the Bogan River.

Full definition of bogan

Noun

1. (Australia, slang, derogatory) A person perceived to be unsophisticated or of a lower class background.
• 1999, Tim Winton, Lockie Leonard, Scumbuster, the+bogan%22|%22bogans%22+-intitle:%22bogan|bogans%22+-inauthor:%22bogan%22&dq=%22a|the+bogan%22|%22bogans%22+-intitle:%22bogan|bogans%22+-inauthor:%22bogan%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qVP7TsvtDIWOiAe7teHVDQ&redir_esc=y page 6,Bogans were Lockie's least favorite kind of people.
• 2009, Catherine Deveny, Free to a Good Home, the+bogan%22|%22bogans%22+-intitle:%22bogan|bogans%22+-inauthor:%22bogan%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ekj7Tq_jJqejiAf6hqCeAQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22a|the%20bogan%22|%22bogans%22%20-intitle%3A%22bogan|bogans%22%20-inauthor%3A%22bogan%22&f=false page 47,The Reservoir I grew up in was populated by menacing, toothless Torana-driving bogans, crushed menthol-smoking pensioners and toddlers who swore.
2. (Australia, slang, obsolete) Something of poor quality.- Used occasionally in pre-1900 Australian literature to describe something of poor quality (e.g., in Banjo Patterson, The City of Dreadful Thirst). -
3. (New Zealand, slang, derogatory) An Anglo-Celtic member of a lower socioeconomic group, stereotypically classified as wearing black jumpers or black concert T-shirts.
4. (New Zealand, slang, derogatory) A petrolhead.
5. (Canada, North Western Ontario, slang, derogatory) An aboriginal person perceived as having gangster ties.

Synonyms

• (unsophisticated person) dag Australia, chav British, redneck US
• (poor Anglo-Celtic person) bevan Australia, Queensland, westy
  westie Australia (esp. Sydney), NZ (esp. Auckland), booner Australia, Canberra, white trash US

Verb

1. (rare) To act like a bogan."If you're coming in to cause trouble, don't bother ... bogan it up at home." - Lord Mayor Robert Doyle http://www.optuszoo.com.au/article/news/news_latest/news_latest_ndm/620

Apparently a conflation of logan (from pokelogan) with bog.

Noun

1. (Canada) Any narrow water or creek, particularly a tranquil backwater.
• 2001, Charles G. D. Roberts, Seán Virgo, Kindred of the Wild, page 130:All around the shores of the narrow bogan crowded the beasts, watching with wide, fascinated eyes the flight and fall of these disastrous missiles.

Anagrams

• Gabon