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scozzer


dag, bogan (used in Geelong): Look, she's wearing tights and ugg boots - what a scozzer. Also, scozza.

Contributor's comments: I grew up in Geelong and scozzers (and bogans) generally also had scozz locks: small curls in the hair from letting it grow just over the collar.

Contributor's comments: Same as 'bogan', particularly if sterotypically dressed i.e. black t-shirt, tight jeans, moccasins and a 'mullet' haircut. It was used in Geelong Victoria in the late 1980's. When I moved to Melbourne, no one used scozza, instead they used bogan: "Check out that bloke ... What a scozza!"

Contributor's comments: I remember this word from high school in Geelong. I spelt it as scozza. I didn't know of the word bogan until I moved to Melbourne and the people there didn't know scozza. Geelong had many of its own words and phrases.

Contributor's comments: [Melbourne informant] I first heard bogan in Melbourne in the mid to late 1970s, previously bogans were known as "moccasin people" on account of their favoured footwear and occasionally as scozzers, with scozz as the adjective e.g. "look at that scozz car", but scozzer was entirely replaced by bogan. Westies were the Sydney version of bogans - the uniform is as every one says, tight jeans, moccys, flannel shirt or blank band t-shirt and of course the mullett.

Contributor's comments: Growing up in Ballarat in the 70's and 80's, the word "bogan" was very commonly used. The word 'skozza' was also used interchangeably.