bög
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "bog"
Swedish
Etymology
Uncertain. One alternative source is månsing bög (“dupe”). Another is French bougre (“scoundrel”), from Medieval Latin Bulgarus (“heretic”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bög c
- (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
- (slang) a (male) person with an obsession for something, märkesbög ("brand fag"), prylbög ("gadget fag")
- (slang) a prison informant, in the compound golbög; snitch, rat
Usage notes
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 homosexual 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, although context still dictates whether usage is considered derogatory or acceptable.
Declension
| Declension of bög | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | bög | bögen | bögar | bögarna |
| Genitive | bögs | bögens | bögars | bögarnas |
Synonyms
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