“It’s an uncouth person, someone who wears flannelette shirts and has a mohawk,” he told Sky News host Peta Credlin.
“Linguists in Australia have been researching this for at least 20 years, to my knowledge, and they tell me they don’t know.” Mr Smith said experts are certain the word does not come from the Bogan River in western New South Wales.
Also used in NZ. One translation for the US I've seen ... its the equivalent of 'white trash'. Probably a loose approximation.
logancc - surely right?
Interesting. More interesting is that they spent 20 years searching. Twenty minutes I could understand but TWENTY YEARS?
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