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bög - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Uncertain:

  • One proposed source is månsing bög (“dupe”).
  • also compare dialectal böj (“leather bag”).

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  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

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 gay 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, though context still dictates whether usage is considered derogatory or acceptable.

Derogatory synonyms: