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bo·gan

   [boh-guhn]
noun Northern Maine and Canadian (chiefly Maritimes and Northern New Brunswick).
1.
a backwater, usually narrow and tranquil.
2.
any narrow stretch of water.
Origin:
1895–1900; apparently shortening of pokelogan, perhaps conflated with bog1; compare logan

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Bo·gan

   [boh-gan, boh-guhn]
noun
Louise, 1897–1970, U.S. poet.
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bogan1 (ˈbəʊɡən)
 
—n
(Canadian) logan, Also called: pokelogan (esp in the Maritime Provinces) a sluggish side stream
 
[of Algonquian origin]

bogan2 (ˈbəʊɡən)
 
—n
1.  a fool
2.  a hooligan
 
[C20: of unknown origin]

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