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bög

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Swedish

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Etymology

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Uncertain. One proposed source is månsing bög (dupe) This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. . Another is French bougre (scoundrel), from Medieval Latin Bulgarus (heretic).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bög c

  1. (slightly colloquial) a homosexual male; gay, fag, queer, poof
    Jag är bög
    I'm gay (see vara for why there is no article and more examples)
    Det är ingen idé att du stöter på honom. Han är bög.
    There is no point in hitting on him. He's gay.
    Vi hamnade på en bögklubb
    We ended up at a gay club
  2. (slang) a (male) person with an obsession for something, märkesbög ("brand fag"), prylbög ("gadget fag")
  3. (slang) a prison informant, in the compound golbög; snitch, rat

Usage notes

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The word bög (in the meaning "male homosexual") has gradually since approximately the 1970s evolved from being a highly offensive and derogatory term to a word used by gay males to describe themselves in a conscious effort to rid the word and the concept it describes of their taboo status. It can nowadays be used in most mediums (including newspapers and national media broadcasts) as a fairly neutral and innocuous colloquial term, though context still dictates whether usage is considered derogatory or acceptable.

Declension

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Declension of bög
nominative genitive
singular indefinite bög bögs
definite bögen bögens
plural indefinite bögar bögars
definite bögarna bögarnas

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Finnish: böögi
  • Norwegian Bokmål: bøg m

See also

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References

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