单词 | sheepshagger |
释义 | sheepshaggern. slang (British, Irish English, Australian, and New Zealand). derogatory. A man who engages in or is said to engage in sexual intercourse with sheep. Usually as a term of abuse: a man from a hilly or rural region (of the type used for sheep-farming); a country bumpkin; (originally, Military slang) a member of various Scottish regiments, esp. the Black Watch (see quots. 1958, 1969).Of the original usage Paul Beale notes, in Partridge's Dict. Slang (ed. 8) (1984), that the use is ‘highly offensive, and not used..in the hearing of one member of the Regt, let alone a crowd; even a subdued “baa!” could be dangerous’. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > rustic or peasant > ignorant chuffc1440 lob1533 lobcocka1556 hick1565 bumpkin1570 swad1572 hob-clunch1578 hoblob1582 clubhutchen1584 gran1591 bacon1598 boor1598 hobbinol1600 homespun1600 lob-coat1604 loblolly1604 hobnail1645 bacon-slicer1653 jobson1660 hob-thrush1682 country put1688 put1688 clodhopper1699 bumpkinet1714 joskin1811 yokel1819 whopstraw1821 chaw-bacon1822 lobeline1844 farmer1864 sheepshagger1958 1958 M. Bence-Jones Paradise Escaped iv. 73 I used to know a Rockburn once... He was in the Sheep Shaggers. 1969 M. Pugh Last Place Left xxix. 208 ‘I've been trying to remember the Black Watch nickname.’.. In fact, the nickname was the Sheep Shaggers. 1980 Village Voice (N.Y.) 21 Jan. 25/1 An unspeakable country filled with unspeakable people, sheepshaggers and smugglers. 1982 Private Eye 2 July 11/1 She is now back and planning a Victory Parade not to mention her own visit to the newly reconquered territories to receive the homage of the grateful sheepshaggers, all fifty-nine of them. 1992 I. Pattison More Rab C. Nesbitt Scripts 62 Who are you calling a sheepshagger? 2001 N. Griffiths Sheepshagger 87 You're a local. Might've fuckin guessed. Something fuckin weird about you sheepshaggers, I'm tellin yer. Fuckin banjo-players around here. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1958 |
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