单词 | plough-jogger |
释义 | plough-joggerplow-joggern. humorous and derogatory. Now rare (chiefly U.S. in later use). A person who ‘jogs’ or pushes a plough, a ploughman; (in extended use) a farmer or rural labourer. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun] > ploughman or woman earthlingOE ploughman1223 earmana1250 ploughswain1296 earera1382 plougher?1518 balker1549 scratcher1557 bawker1591 plough-jogger1600 plough-jobber1667 plough woman1783 tailsman1867 1600 R. Armin Foole vpon Foole sig. D1v A country Plow Jogger..secretly stole a peece of shoomakers waxe..and comming behinde him, clapt him on the head. a1658 J. Cleveland Rustick Rampant in Wks. (1687) 429 A medley..of Botchers, Coblers,..Draymen,..and Plough-joggers. 1722 New-Eng. Courant 15–22 Jan. 2/1 It will be well for the World if thou art destin'd to be a Porter or a Plough-jogger. c1787 in Q. Rev. Jan. (1882) 66 He was..a plain man..who begged to say a few words to his ‘brother plough-joggers’. ?1822 J. H. Payne Love in Humble Life 9 I am no longer a ploughjogger; I'm an officer. a1852 F. M. Whitcher Widow Bedott Papers (1856) xx. 207 I wanted old Dawson's wife to see't I'd got a pardner ruther above a common plow-jogger, such as hern is. 1862 Harper's Mag. Nov. 782/2 City folks most generally fetch along a lot of traps and finery to show off afore us plowjoggers. 1865 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1861–4 5 255 At least the old plow jogger will be mounted on his buggy seat. 1880 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 469/2 He might have been one of the ‘plow joggers’, as Alonzo derisively styled the rural farmers thereabouts. 1958 Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 9 Oct. 20/2 Many Berkshire plow-joggers are leading lives of quiet desperation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1600 |
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