Green’s Dictionary of Slang

bogue n.1

[Choctaw bog, a stream or creek; thus the swamps that typify the topography of southern Florida]

(US) a native of Florida.

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[US]T. Flint Recollections 319: [The people of W. Florida] are a wild race, but with little order or morals; they are generally denominated ‘Bogues,’ and call themselves ‘rosin heels’.