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单词 sheepshagger
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sheepshaggern.

Brit. /ˈʃiːpʃaɡə/, U.S. /ˈʃipˌʃæɡər/, Irish English /ˈʃiːpʃæɡər/, Australian English /ˈʃiːpʃæɡə/, New Zealand English /ˈʃiːpʃɛɡə/
Forms: 1900s– Sheep Shagger, 1900s– sheepshagger.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sheep n., shagger n. at shag v.3 Derivatives
Etymology: < sheep n. + shagger n. at shag v.3 Derivatives. Compare sheep-shagging n.
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’.
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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).
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