英语词汇“irish buggy”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(b) Originally and chiefly U.S. Modifying the names of conveyances to designate a wheelbarrow, esp. in Irish buggy. Now historical.Probably with reference to the formerly frequent employment of Irish people as building labourers.

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1885 Daily Leader (Eau Claire, Wisconsin) 16 Aug. I won't tell you what Douglass and Jule are doing because it might offend their feelings if I told you they were running an Irish buggy.

1914 Adams County (Iowa) Free Press 2 May 1/1 Our highly esteemed fellow citizen of English birth got between the handles of an Irish buggy and proceeded to the lumber yard for a few bundles of shingles.

1936 Our Army Sept. 22/1 Old Bill..is the official driver of those one-wheeled vehicles variously dubbed Georgia Buggies, Irish Go-Carts or wheelbarrows.

1949 J. Chisholm Brewery Gulch 42 He could put a loaded Irish-man-o'-war, as the miners called a wheelbarrow, on his hard head and walk off with it.

1996 M. W. Seguin Silver Ribbon Skinny 39 We got anyone who can drive an Irish buggy (wheelbarrow) or use an Irish piccolo and banjo (pick and shovel) workin' in shifts.

单词	irish buggy
释义	> as lemmas Irish buggy (b) Originally and chiefly U.S. Modifying the names of conveyances to designate a wheelbarrow, esp. in Irish buggy. Now historical.Probably with reference to the formerly frequent employment of Irish people as building labourers. ΚΠ 1885 Daily Leader (Eau Claire, Wisconsin) 16 Aug. I won't tell you what Douglass and Jule are doing because it might offend their feelings if I told you they were running an Irish buggy. 1914 Adams County (Iowa) Free Press 2 May 1/1 Our highly esteemed fellow citizen of English birth got between the handles of an Irish buggy and proceeded to the lumber yard for a few bundles of shingles. 1936 Our Army Sept. 22/1 Old Bill..is the official driver of those one-wheeled vehicles variously dubbed Georgia Buggies, Irish Go-Carts or wheelbarrows. 1949 J. Chisholm Brewery Gulch 42 He could put a loaded Irish-man-o'-war, as the miners called a wheelbarrow, on his hard head and walk off with it. 1996 M. W. Seguin Silver Ribbon Skinny 39 We got anyone who can drive an Irish buggy (wheelbarrow) or use an Irish piccolo and banjo (pick and shovel) workin' in shifts. extracted from Irishadj.adv.n. < as lemmas
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