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单词 bog-trotter
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bog-trottern.

Brit. /ˈbɒɡˌtrɒtə/, U.S. /ˈbɔɡˌtrɑdər/, /ˈbɑɡˌtrɑdər/
Etymology: < bog n.1 + trotter n.
1. One accustomed to make his way across bogs, or to run to bogs for refuge. Obsolete.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > one going on foot > on specific type of terrain
bog-trotter1700
bush-walker1955
1700 P. Rycaut Hist. Turks III. 276 Being very nimble and active, and a kind of Bog-trotter, Achmet escaped over a Marsh.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Bog-trotter, one that lives in a boggy country.
2. spec. (depreciative, and usually considered offensive). Applied to the rural Irish in the 17th cent.; continued in the 18th cent. as a nickname for Irishmen.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Irish > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Ireland
IrishmanOE
Ireis1297
hooded mana1464
Mac1518
Irish1553
Teague?1661
bog-trotter1682
Milesian1682
dear joy1688
Teaguelander1689
paddy1714
bog-lander1736
bog-stalkera1758
brogueneer1758
paddywhack1773
Pat1796
West Briton1805
Irisher1807
Patlander1820
Greek1823
Mick1850
redneck1852
Grecian1853
mickeyc1854
Mike1859
harp1904
1682 ‘Philanax Misopappas’ Tory Plot: 2nd Pt. 18 An idle flam of shabby Irish Bogtrotters.
1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 192 His Friends were termed Bog-Trotters, wild Irish, or, which means the same Thing, Tories.
1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom I. xxxi. 226 A beggarly Scot, and an impudent Irish bog-trotter.
1773 S. Johnson Let. 21 Sept. (1992) II. 74 Moss in Scotland, is Bog in Ireland, and Mosstrooper is Bogtrotter.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 712 Two Irishmen, or, in the phrase of the newspapers of that day, bogtrotters.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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