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"alt": "Queensland",
"sense": "poor Anglo-Celtic person",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"word": "bevan"
},
{
"alt": "Australia (esp. Sydney), NZ (esp. Auckland)",
"sense": "poor Anglo-Celtic person",
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},
{
"alt": "Australia (esp. Sydney), NZ (esp. Auckland)",
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},
{
"alt": "Canberra",
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"Australia"
],
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},
{
"sense": "poor Anglo-Celtic person",
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"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"
},
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "unsophisticated or lower class person",
"word": "鄉巴佬"
},
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "xiāngbalǎo",
"sense": "unsophisticated or lower class person",
"word": "乡巴佬"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "unsophisticated or lower class person",
"word": "maalainen"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "unsophisticated or lower class person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Proll"
},
{
"alt": "いなか もの",
"code": "ja",
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"roman": "inakamono",
"sense": "unsophisticated or lower class person",
"word": "田舎者"
},
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "unsophisticated or lower class person",
"word": "tautara"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "unsophisticated or lower class person",
"word": "bydło"
},
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"roman": "lox",
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"slang"
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"word": "лох"
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"sense": "unsophisticated or lower class person",
"word": "быдло"
},
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"code": "th",
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"sense": "unsophisticated or lower class person",
"word": "คนบ้านนอก"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "chaao-bâan",
"sense": "unsophisticated or lower class person",
"word": "ชาวบ้าน"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "dtaa-sǐi-dtaa-sǎa",
"sense": "unsophisticated or lower class person",
"word": "ตาสีตาสา"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "lûuk-tûng",
"sense": "unsophisticated or lower class person",
"word": "ลูกทุ่ง"
}
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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.",
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"To act like a bogan."
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"(rare, derogatory) To act like a bogan."
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{
"ref": "2001, Charles G. D. Roberts, Seán Virgo, Kindred of the Wild, page 130:",
"text": "All around the shores of the narrow bogan crowded the beasts, watching with wide, fascinated eyes the flight and fall of these disastrous missiles.",
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"glosses": [
"Any narrow water or creek, particularly a tranquil backwater."
],
"links": [
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"water",
"water"
],
[
"creek",
"creek"
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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 Stereotypes: Indians, natives, bogans, nates, […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"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": "quote"
},
{
"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": "quote"
},
{
"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": "quote"
}
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"An indigenous person."
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"(Canada, North Western Ontario, slang, derogatory, offensive) An indigenous person."
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