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.
The bogan person will generally lack sophistication and refinement. Over the course of the last several decades, the bogan has become a very widespread and well recognised subculture, often as an example of bad taste. Various localised names exist that describe the same or very similar groups of people.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.