boggering vbl n Cp DINNEEN bagairt 'act of nodding, beckoning ... a challenge'; bagraim 'I beckon; I threaten.' In children's pastime, competing with one another; cp COPYING.
   1959 Evening Telegram 4 June, p. 3 The youth ... told the court that they were playing a game of 'boggering.' It was the first time the court heard of such a game, and the youth explained that it was 'trying to see who could climb the highest.'

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