GQ painted a scathing picture of a typical kook, painting the pseudo-surfer as a despised member of the surfing community.Ī kook is a bad surfer who has no interest in learning but wants to remain part of the surfing community. Any attempt to surf ends in injury for the kook or another surfer. The person looks like a surfer – and talks like one – but can’t do the one thing that surfers do: surf. In the real world, kook is a surfing slang word that refers to a person posing as a surfer. The kooks enjoy lavish lives in houses with expansive lawns and eat at expensive restaurants waited by the pogues. Kook in Outer Banks is the opposite of pogue. Therefore, they coexist with the pogues – though on vastly different parts of the island – because the poor do jobs the rich can’t. The rich need people to do the ‘undesirable’ jobs: Waiting tables, cleaning pools, maintaining gardens – the like. However, the ecosystem in the sea and on Outer Banks can collapse without them. They’re near the bottom of the food chain and, on the face of it, can be considered useless. Knowing that, you can understand why the poor in Outer Banks compare to pogies. Menhaden are still fished in large numbers as their oil creates margarine, supplements, lipstick, and many other things. Without menhaden, the marine ecosystem would collapse. ‘Pogies’ then become food for bigger fish and crustaceans. Menhaden eat plankton, the microscopic food source of marine ecosystems. It doesn’t lend itself to human consumption, but it forms an integral part of the food chain. A menhaden fish is small, unremarkable, and foul-tasting. The character John B explains that the word pogue comes from a fish species called the silver Menhaden fish, aka pogies. Pogues live on the poor side of the island, away from the luxurious houses of the kooks. They work for the rich and do hard jobs to make a living. In the show Outer Banks, a pogue refers to the poor people who live in Outer Banks. It can also refer to a purse or wallet, though people rarely use the word this way. What Does the Word Pogue Mean?Īs stated above, pogue refers to a military soldier who’s not on active duty. As a bonus, I’ll add a list of surf slang that you can use at any surf spot around the world. I’ll also detail the meaning of “kook,” an actual surf word used in the series. Pogue, as used in Outer Banks, is a creation of the showrunners and not a real surfing word.īelow, I’ll explain the meaning of pogue as used in Outer Banks. Rather than being surf slang, “pogue” is military slang for a soldier not required for military action. The word “pogue” has no meaning in surfing. That kind of talk isn’t just in the show either it’s true surfer slang that you’d hear if you were out riding the waves.
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The Outer Banks in North Carolina offer great spots for year-round surfing, and if you’ve ever checked out the Netflix series Outer Banks, then you’ve probably heard a lot of surfer lingo.
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