boggerall, noun

/ˈbɔɡərɔl/
Forms:
Also bokkerol.
Origin:
EnglishShow more Indicating Afrikaans-speakers’ pronunciation of English bugger all nothing.
slang
‘Bugger all’, nothing.
Note:
Frequently used jocularly, or to indicate the reported speech of Afrikaners.
1965 P. Baragwanath Brave Remain 99Both looked at Babyface who was deep in thought. ‘How much does he know?’ ‘Boggerall..’ the two replied.
1980 J. Scott in Cape Times 18 Apr. 9‘A litre of milk costs 41c,’ he (sc. the Minister of Agriculture) said. ‘To subsidize it by one cent amounts to 50 percent of bokkerol’...Mr B— objected to the word bokkerol. ‘I shall say “bugger nothing”, then’.
1984 Frontline Feb. 26The govt. was really hot on this whole issue of trying to make like the larnies and the bushies and the darkies actually had boggerall to do with one another.
1989 Weekly Mail 15 Dec. 7If a man gets sick and does not go out, no money. If he gets hurt he gets ‘boggerall’.
‘Bugger all’, nothing.
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