PARIS, Sept. 15â Two extraordinary paintings, a Vermeer and a Goya, have been recovered by the police in Belgium seven years after they were stolen from a private collection in Ireland.
The term bogan (/ËboÊÉ¡Én/) is an Australian and New Zealand slang word that can be used to describe a person with a lower working-class background, or whose speech, clothing, attitude and behaviour exemplify a gratified working class mentality and depending on the context, can be pejorative or self-deprecating.n 2007, Microsoft deemed bogan to be one of twenty colloquialisms most relevant to Australian users when the word was added to the dictionary of Microsoft Office 2007. The word entered the Oxford English Dictionary in June 2012.
Melbourne street art of a stereotypical male bogan. He is depicted as a repulsive character with a cigarette in his mouth, a tomato sauce-covered meat pie in one hand and a stubby of Melbourne Bitter in the other. On his arm is a tattoo of Ned Kelly.lthough the term bogan is understood across Australia and New Zealand, certain regions have their own slang terms for the same group of people. These terms include:  1 Chigger (also chigga or chig) in Tasmania. 2  This appears to be a reference to the Hobart suburb of Chigwell.