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"ref": "2008, Lord Mayor Robert Doyle, (Please provide the book title or journal name)",
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"ref": "2001, Charles G. D. Roberts, Seán Virgo, Kindred of the Wild, page 130",
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"ref": "2013, Feathers of Hope: A First Nations Youth Action Plan, archived from the original on 2016-04-24, page 68",
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"ref": "2015 December 8, Tanya Talaga, “One rape. A hate crime. Thunder Bay's simmering divides come to light”, in Toronto Star",
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"ref": "2017 February 7, Lenard Monkman, “Indigenous people say racism-tainted drive-by violence all too common”, in CBC News",
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"ref": "2017 June 1, “Evidence from First Nation student who survived Thunder Bay river attack resurfaces following eye-witness claim”, in National News",
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"sense": "poor Anglo-Celtic person",
"word": "westy"
},
{
"alt": "Australia (esp. Sydney), NZ (esp. Auckland)",
"sense": "poor Anglo-Celtic person",
"word": "westie"
},
{
"alt": "Canberra",
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"Australia"
],
"word": "booner"
},
{
"sense": "poor Anglo-Celtic person",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"word": "white trash"
}
],
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tǔbāozi",
"sense": "unsophisticated or lower class person",
"word": "土包子"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "unsophisticated or lower class person",
"word": "鄉巴佬"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiāngbalǎo",
"sense": "unsophisticated or lower class person",
"word": "乡巴佬"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "unsophisticated or lower class person",
"word": "maalainen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "unsophisticated or lower class person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Proll"
},
{
"alt": "いなか もの",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "inakamono",
"sense": "unsophisticated or lower class person",
"word": "田舎者"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "unsophisticated or lower class person",
"word": "bydło"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lox",
"sense": "unsophisticated or lower class person",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"slang"
],
"word": "лох"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bydlo",
"sense": "unsophisticated or lower class person",
"word": "быдло"
}
],
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"Bogan Gate",
"Bogan River"
],
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}
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{
"ref": "2008, Lord Mayor Robert Doyle, (Please provide the book title or journal name)",
"text": "If you're coming in to cause trouble, don't bother […] bogan it up at home.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"ref": "2001, Charles G. D. Roberts, Seán Virgo, Kindred of the Wild, page 130",
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"type": "quotation"
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[
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"ref": "2013, Feathers of Hope: A First Nations Youth Action Plan, archived from the original on 2016-04-24, page 68",
"text": "Negative Sterotypes: Indians, natives, bogans, nates[.]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2015 December 8, Tanya Talaga, “One rape. A hate crime. Thunder Bay's simmering divides come to light”, in Toronto Star",
"text": "Greg Quachegan, a teacher at Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School, was walking with his young daughters when someone yelled, “Bogans,” at them. He has no idea what it means, but it’s a slur aboriginal people hear often.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017 February 7, Lenard Monkman, “Indigenous people say racism-tainted drive-by violence all too common”, in CBC News",
"text": "\"There's young men, on the weekends, they will throw beer bottles at you and yell out 'bogan' or 'squaw' or 'whore,'\" said Deanne Hupfield, who grew up in Thunder Bay.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017 June 1, “Evidence from First Nation student who survived Thunder Bay river attack resurfaces following eye-witness claim”, in National News",
"text": "Is that the same blue truck that is throwing rocks out the passenger window and screaming at natives calling them bogans walking on the street?",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"An indigenous person."
],
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[
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],
[
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],
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"(Canada, North Western Ontario, slang, derogatory, offensive) An indigenous person."
],
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"North",
"Ontario",
"Western",
"derogatory",
"offensive",
"slang"
]
}
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"ipa": "/ˈboʊɡən/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-əʊɡən"
},
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"tags": [
"Australia"
],
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}
],
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}
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"name": "head"
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"lang_code": "ang",
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{
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"word": "boga"
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]
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"form-of",
"plural"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/ˈboɡɑn/"
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{
"ipa": "[ˈboɣɑn]"
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"args": {
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"expansion": "bogan",
"name": "head"
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"lang_code": "es",
"pos": "verb",
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"name": "head"
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{
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"Yagara entries with incorrect language header",
"Yagara lemmas",
"Yagara verbs"
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"sleep"
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"sleep",
"sleep"
]
]
}
],
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