bög

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

  • IPA(key): /bøːɡ/

Noun

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

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

Derogatory synonyms:

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Finnish: böögi
  • Norwegian Bokmål: bøg m

See also

References

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