单词 | plough jag |
释义 | plough jagn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1852 |
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