I grew up in Michigan. The word bogue was used quite regularly- it means rude or unfair. “I can’t believe you ate all the pie! That’s so bogue!”
Since moving from there 18 years ago, I’ve never heard it used again, anywhere.
Have you ever heard/used this word?
Uh… no. Bogus, but not bogue
I remember hearing that AND bogus when I was a teenager. Ohhh about twenty years ago.
This was in Memphis, TN.
Are you sure you’ve got the right spelling? A define: query through Google only turns up one hit, referring to a nautical term.
I suppose the term could just be an alteration of ‘bogus’ which was extremely regional and never caught on. I’ve never heard it, and I lived in Michigan about the same time (granted, I moved away when I was 7, so I probably didn’t get to pick up on all the ‘hip’ terms).
I heard it only once, about 1976. I was getting off the train near my college and somehow had gotten into a conversation with another student who’d been on the same train but I had never met. I ended up asking for a ride to campus when I learned that she had a car parked there, and she did give me the ride, but said it was bogue of me to ask. I never saw her again or heard that word. But that’s just how I imagined it would be spelled.
i’ll back you up on this one.
i’ve heard it.
never really liked it, so i never said it…
but i’ve DEFINITELY heard it a billion times
(born in detroit, raised in dearborn heights)
BTW this was in San Diego.
Yay! I was starting to think maybe it was just my own family that said it. Yes, it’s probably very regional, although I grew up 4 hours north of Detroit. And I’m just guessing on the spelling- I’m sure I’ve never seen it written.
I spent the first 22 years of my life living near Detroit, but yet I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone use that word. I do know of a street named “Bogue” in East Lansing, though. Interesting…
Not quite the same, but isn’t ‘bogan’ a derogatory Australian term for somebody…
I lived in Kalamazoo from 76 to 86 and never heard “bogue.”
76 to 86 would make you too old to know it…
sorry, don’t throw anything at me.
this term seems to be more 90s ish
Nope. I left Michigan in 88, and I knew it the whole time I was growing up.
Down in southern Mississippi, there is a river called the Bogue Chitto river. People canoe and tube down in all the time. Pronounced BO-ga CHIT-ta.
We used “bogus” (incorrectly, I might add) in the early 70s. We used it to mean “bad” or “sucks” or “lousy.” When I think of one of my friends from back in the day, that’s the first thing that comes to mind. Everything was “bogus.” To fucking death.
“Bougie”
Bougie usually refers to someone who tries to act higher class than they really are, or socially pretentious.
I’ve heard it in Dallas, Texas and Atlanta, Georgia. From my experience it tends to be used more in black slang than elsewhere.
Did you miss my first post?
I lived most of my life so far in the southwest part of Michigan, and I definitely heard bogue. Although I never thought of how to spell it before now, so looking at it like that, it doesn’t look right. Bouge? Boge? Eh, whatever, this was from 1980 until the late 90s.
Never heard it, but my guess is it’s a back-formation from “bogus,” which I have heard, a million times, as in: “That’s, like, so bogus.” I know there are other slang terms that have been truncated this way, but I can’t really think of any examples at the moment other than “vaca” for “vacation.” It’s kind of a Valley Girl thing, I think.
Are you sure its not “bogart”? As in “Stop bogarting the joint and pass it!” which used to mean to hog something. I think it originated from Humphry Bogart’s name, who was also called Bogie…