(Australia) A person who is unsophisticated or of a lower class background but achieving a high salary, who spends money on flashy or trashy items to fulfil their aspirations of higher social status.
(Australia) A person who is unsophisticated or of a lower class background but achieving a high salary, who spends money on flashy or trashy items to fulfil their aspirations of higher social status. The stereotype includes having speech and mannerisms that are considered to denote poor education and uncultured upbringing, which is reflected in their bad taste possessions and lifestyles.
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Aussie and Kiwi vocabulary — bogan, daggy, brekkie, sheila, bach, jandals — the whole Antipodean lexicon, including outback dialect, surf and beach culture, and Sydney/Melbourne street slang.
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An unsophisticated person from a working class background.
Australian: a working-class, unsophisticated-but-proud-of-it person. Comparable to "yobbo." Often affectionate, sometimes pointed. "He showed up to the wedding in thongs and a footy jersey. Absolute bogan." The word is a social signal as much as a description.
An Anglo-Celtic member of a lower socioeconomic group, stereotypically classified as wearing black jumpers or black concert T-shirts.
Boganer is the comparative form of bogan — meaning more bogan than the average bogan. If your mate already rocks a mullet and a Metallica singlet, but then shows up to Christmas lunch with a shoey in hand and a Confederate flag stubby holder, he's officially boganer. The term captures that delightful sliding scale of working-class Australian chaotic energy, acknowledging that there is always another level to descend — or ascend, depending on your perspective.
And the tourists all seem to be cashed-up bogans with plenty of money and no bloody taste or brains.