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mocca


a bogan, or a no-good-sort who favours moccasins as everyday footwear: Those people down the road are a bunch of moccas.

Contributor's comments: In reference to the term 'mocca'- I grew up in Maryborough, Victoria. In Maryborough there lived, not in the too distant past, a man by the name of Johnson. I think he suffered from severe alcoholism and braindamage and would repeat everything said to him. For this he earned the name 'Mocker Johnson". He was the patriarch of a rather notorious Maryborough family, who unfortunately for them didn't occupy a very high socio-economic level. I disagree that the term 'mocca' comes from such people or 'bogans' wearing moccasins. The Maryborough (Central Highlands) use of the word 'mocca' to describe people living in commission home areas arose from Mr Johnson.

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 mullet.