A new twist in the elusive quest for the origins of the word 'bogan' leads to Melbourne's Xavier College
- Written by Bruce Moore, Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Languages, and Linguistics, Australian National University
Drawing of a 'bogan doll' which featured in a 1984 edition of a student-produced Xavier College magazine Sursum Corda.Author provided
Bogan is the most significant word to be created in Australian English in the past 40 years. It is defined as “an uncultured and unsophisticated person; a boorish and uncouth person” in the 2016 edition...