Notes: I don’t think I’ve run across this word
Pronounced: LOO-dick, adj
Yesterday’s word
The word bogart means
- to bully or intimidate
- to use or consume without sharing (to “hog”)
First usage
Our word came into English in the 1960s
Background / Comments
As I noted, our word does comes from the actor Humphrey Bogart, who is known for playing “tough guys”, and thus we have the first meaning. The second meaning comes from a combination of the drug culture and the method Mr Bogart used in his pictures: he would let the butt dangle from his mouth and did not remove it until it was almost fully consumed. The was a phrase assumed to come from this habit: “Don’t bogart that joint” (referring to a marijuana cigarette). It was common to share joints, and if one person used it up, it would be as Mr Bogart did with his cigarettes. There was a song in the film Easy Rider [I’ve not seen nor even heard of this film] that used this phrase. Over time, the meaning has broadened so that it can now mean to “hog” something.
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