单词 | chugger |
释义 | chuggern.1 1. North American. Angling. a. A person who uses underwater sounds to drive or lure fish, esp. when ice fishing. Cf. chug v. Additions. rare. ΚΠ 1885 N.Y. Times 28 Dec. 2/7 All but one of the chuggers take a position at a hole in the ice... The man with the axe or maul strikes the ice three or four times. The sharp ‘chug’ startles the fish beneath the ice... As they pass by the holes over which the fishermen stand the hooks are thrust down. 1991 J. Harrison Just before Dark (1999) ii. 74 I attached a Swedish pimple..to a line, dropped it to the bottom..and began chugging... No question about it. I had become a Chugger. b. An artificial top-water lure which makes a chugging sound when moved along the surface of the water. Cf. popper n. 7. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > lure with one or more hooks plug1917 plunker1930 plug bait1933 popper1936 chugger1938 1938 Appleton (Wisconsin) Post-Crescent 16 Apr. 14/3 The Economy Boys..are offering two Heddon River Runt lures. One is a spookie floater and the other a chugger spook. 1940 Washington Post 21 July ii. 7/8 The longer a chugger is in the water, the more apt it is to catch a fish. 1959 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 24 Apr. 20/1 Just give me a good underwater spoon, some pork rind, a deep runner, a surface chugger of any type, and a weedless with which to hit the lily pads and brush. 1994 Outdoor Canada Summer 26/2 For the better part of an hour I popped a chugger across the surface with a spinning rod. Not a single smallie rose. 2. colloquial (originally U.S.). A thing which chugs or makes a chugging sound, esp. a vehicle. Hence: something which proceeds in a slow but steady manner. ΚΠ 1908 Washington Post 19 July (Miscellany section) 3/4 Now he's the chauffeur, and the man that he shofes for, the owner of the chugger, is a Harlem waiter. 1926 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 17 Aug. 9/2 The old-fashioned, two-cylinder chugger will be driven by a grizzled veteran of the first battle of the Marne. The taxi may be kept in this country as a souvenir. 1968 Times 23 Jan. (Austral. Special Rep. Suppl.) 9/3 Start by taking a trip on the Manly ferry. Not the 30 m.p.h. hydrofoil but a good old chugger. 1999 Linedancer Feb. 27/1 Other potential floor fillers are Now You're Gone, a driving chugger;..and It's Really Hard to Say, a mellow downbeat cha cha. 3. colloquial (originally U.S.). A person who consumes a drink in large gulps without pausing; a guzzler. Cf. chug v. Additions.Frequently with modifying word specifying a particular type of drink. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [noun] > one who surfeiter1483 gulch1602 overeater1621 guzzlera1704 chowhound1917 gutbucket1919 Cookie Monster1971 comfort eater1972 chugger1977 1977 Forbes 1 Mar. 59/1 Newspapers used to be put together in dirty, factory-like rooms by well-paid beer chuggers. 1999 Indiana Daily Student (Bloomington) 19 Feb. 16/4 The music will be played in the Map Room,..which is just the size for a small crowd of java chuggers and an acoustic guitar or two. 2003 Daily Tel. 28 July 13/3 One grinning chugger tells me, proudly, that he ‘nearly got glassed once’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). chuggern.2 British slang (usually derogatory). A charity worker who raises funds by approaching people in the street, usually seeking to set up regular contributions via bank transfer rather than asking for an immediate cash donation. ΚΠ 2002 Guardian 29 June 13/5 On the way I counted all the people who accosted me..no fewer than three ‘chuggers’ which, I gather, is the term for charity muggers, those people with clipboards who want you to sign a standing order for their good cause. 2008 Community Care 11 Dec. 37 You see chuggers standing on the street in the freezing cold, armed only with a clipboard. 2012 Independent 9 June (Mag.) 31/3 Bath continues to be a beautiful, but over-crowded tourist trap, over-run by chuggers and tat shops and impossible to navigate in summer. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11885n.22002 |
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