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单词 plough jag
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plough jagn.

Brit. /ˈplaʊ dʒaɡ/, U.S. /ˈplaʊ ˌdʒæɡ/
Forms: 1800s– plew jag, 1800s– plough jag.
Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: plough jack n.
Etymology: Apparently alteration of plough jack n. (although this is first attested slightly later).
English regional (chiefly Lincolnshire).
A mummer participating in the celebration of Plough Monday. Also: a Plough Monday celebration. Cf. plough bullock n. 2, plough stot n.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > mime > mumming > [noun] > mummer > types of
witch-mana1538
plough bullock1762
plough stot1817
witch-chap1827
plough bullocker1848
plough jag1852
plough jack1859
plough witcher1860
oonchook1885
janney1896
plough witcha1903
hodener1909
1852 L. A. Atkinson in Folk-lore (1896) 7 335 At Christmastide,..for a week or so, twelve men called ‘boggans’ went round all the villages near Haxey, and called at the farmhouses and cottages, much as plough-jags do.
1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh III. 230 What the mummer is to some other parts of England, the plough-jag is to Lincolnshire.
1896 Folk-lore 7 332 His statement connects the Haxey custom with the ordinary twelfth-tide mummers or plough-jags of the county.
1933 E. K. Chambers Eng. Folk-play 90 The performers call themselves Plough Jacks, Plough Jags, Plough Stots, Plough Bullocks, Plough Boggons, Plough Witchers, or Morris Dancers.
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 229/1 Plough-jags were also celebrated with food, drinking, entertainments..and traditional Mummers' Plays.
1999 Scunthorpe Evening Tel. (Nexis) 5 Jan. 14 When it came to teatime her older brother told me I must hurry home or the Plough Jags would get me.

Derivatives

ˈplough jagging n. = plough bullocking n. at plough bullock n. Derivatives.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > mime > mumming > [noun] > type of
hodening1807
plough bullocking1838
plough witching1854
plough jagging1866
1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. 152 The custom of maurice dancing or plough-jagging..ceased.
1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh III. 229 Plew-jaggin' is for lads and young men..not for a chap like me, that's just a-goin' to be married.
1999 Scunthorpe Evening Tel. (Nexis) 5 Jan. 14 By the 1930s Plough Jagging in Alkborough had shrunk to being a group of youths blacking their faces, knocking on doors and begging.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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