单词 | bog-trotter |
释义 | bog-trottern.ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1682 |
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