migratoryadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈmʌɪɡrət(ə)ri/,

/mʌɪˈɡreɪt(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈmaɪɡrəˌtɔri/

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Latin migratorius ; migrate v., -ory suffix².

Etymology: Either < post-classical Latin migratorius (see below; < classical Latin migrāt- , past participial stem of migrāre migrate v. + -ōrius -ory suffix²), or independently < migrate v. + -ory suffix².For earlier use of post-classical Latin migratorius, compare the passage below (translated ‘Which we call Birds of passage’ by Ray in 1678):1676 F. Willughby & J. Ray Ornithologiæ i. ix. 17 Avium..quæ statis anni temporibus advolant iterumque discedunt, migratoriæ dictæ. N.E.D. (1906) gives only the pronunciation (məi·grĕtəri) /ˈmaɪɡrətərɪ/.

A. adj.

a. Of an animal: characterized by or given to migration, esp. of a periodic or seasonal kind.In the names of animals sometimes translating the specific epithet migratorius, as in migratory locust n. at Compounds, †migratory pigeon (= passenger pigeon n.), †migratory thrush (= robin n.¹ 3).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by habits or actions > [adjective] > migratory

migranta1682

migratory1708

migrating1753

emigrating1792

emigrant1796

emigratory?1839

migrational1888

1708 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 26 123 Their inquisitive Friends..note down the very Day they first see or hear of the Approach of any of the Migratory Birds.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Bird Migratory Birds, the same with birds of passage.

1772 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 398 Migratory Pigeon.

1793 J. Leslie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Birds VI. 489 [Swallows.] Some are there permanent settlers and others migratory.

1831 R. Jameson Wilson & Bonaparte's Amer. Ornithol. (rev. ed.) II. 293 Columba migratoria, Linnæus and Wilson. Migratory Pigeon... The wild pigeon of the United States.

1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies 206 We were on the great highway of these migratory herds.

1839 T. C. Hofland Brit. Angler's Man. (1841) iv. 107 It [sc. the grayling] is very migratory, and frequently leaves one part of the river for another.

1857 F. Gerhard Illinois as it Is 253 In autumn and spring millions of migratory pigeons (Ectopistes migratoria, And.), arrive.

1876 A. R. Wallace Geogr. Distrib. Animals I. i. i. 20 The same species is often sedentary in one part of Europe and migratory in another.

1900 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 14/1 Then the robin (the migratory thrush), with his bold, cheery note, full of summer life.

1925 S. C. Cronwright-Schreiner (title) Migratory Springbucks.

1966 R. H. Davidson & L. M. Peairs Insect Pests (ed. 6) viii. 129 The Rocky Mountain grasshopper is considered the most important migratory species in the United States and Canada.

1994 New Scientist 14 May 10/1 Siberian cranes (Grus leucogeranus) are one of the world's most endangered species of migratory birds.

b. Of a person, a people, etc.: moving temporarily or seasonally from place to place; nomadic; given to travelling. Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > migration > [adjective] > given to migration

flittingc1425

migratory1755

migrant1807

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Horde, a clan; a migratory crew of people.

1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul iii. iii. 385 The..migratory tribes to the west of the pass of Gholairee.

1826 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 116 Migratory, as our Indians are, they all have, with few exceptions, certain districts which they have occupied for ages.

1834 Lady's Bk. Feb. 85 Rivertonians, in general, were not a migratory people; one trip to New York city, and two as far as Albany, often sufficing for life-time adventures.

1874 J. F. Watson & J. W. Kaye People of India VII. 404 Korkoos are more migratory than Gonds.

1911 Publ. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 12 485 Scarcity of migratory laborers is thus one of the causes tending to drive out extensive grain farming.

1967 D. Jenness Indians of Canada (ed. 7) ix. 126 The plains' Indians, although migratory themselves, had advanced one stage further than the migratory tribes of eastern and northern Canada.

1989 B. Head Tales Tenderness & Power (1990) 49 Desert people are migratory people. At very little provocation a whole village of cousins, aunts, parents, children will move off..overnight.

c. Of a person, people, etc.: moving permanently from one country, locality, place of residence, or place of employment to another.

ΚΠ

1838 A. Jameson Winter Stud. & Summer Rambles Canada II. 277 There are on board..also one large family of American emigrants... Such a group could be encountered nowhere on earth..but here in the west, or among the migratory Tartar hordes of the east.

1846 J. Hall Wilderness & War Path 2 It was the village of a migratory people, habituated to sudden changes of residence, and always ready to move at a moment's warning, with all their population and property.

1878 19th Cent. Mar. 449 Our population is so migratory that recruits are seldom enlisted in the parishes they were born in.

1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar v. 41 A vast migratory wave of population had been set in motion behind the Rhine and Danube.

1917 A. Henderson in T. Godfrey Prince of Parthia 20 During the second quarter of the century, North Carolina became a Mecca for the migratory population of Pennsylvania.

1966 Demography 3 355/1 (heading) The Migratory Stream.

1988 Demography 25 447 The migratory population tends to be especially selective with respect to measures..such as age and education.

d. Medicine and Embryology. Of a cell or organ: moving from one position in the body to another; moving out of a blood vessel into the tissues. Also: of or relating to such movement.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > part of body > [adjective] > migratory

flying1805

migratory1874

1874 Proc. Royal Soc. 1873–4 22 389 The channels are more or less filled with migratory, or lymph, corpuscles.

1877 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. XV. 763 The Movable (Migratory) Kidney.

1885 Proc. Royal Soc. 1884–5 38 359 Subsequently migratory cells from the somites apply themselves to the endoderm and ectoderm.

1927 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 13 374 The penetration of an embryonic optic nerve into the medulla determines a migratory avalanche of the medullar cells about it.

1949 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 136 459 The inhibition of Schwann cell migratory activity by adhesion of Schwann cells to nerve fibres.

1971 Science 15 Jan. 138 (caption) A migratory glial cell.

2001 Developmental Biol. 234 352 Diverse trunk and limb blood vessels have endothelial cells that developed from migratory somitic angioblasts.

e. Medicine. Affecting different parts of the body (esp. different joints) in turn; changing position within the body or within an organ.

ΚΠ

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 594 The..Gyrated Variety [of psoriasis] runs in a migratory course.]

1879 P. H. Chavasse Advice to Wife Managem. Health 178 False [labour] pains are generally migratory—changing from place to place—first attacking..one part, then another.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 13 One of the most characteristic features of the disease [sc. Acute Rheumatism] is the migratory nature of the joint affection.

1977 Ann. Internal Med. 86 687/2 The patient continued to have migratory pains in large and small joints.

1989 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Med. 82 553/1 A woman who developed typical features of the glucagonoma syndrome including..necrolytic migratory erythema and markedly raised glucagon levels.

2001 Respiratory Med. 95 348 Chest X-ray and computed tomography scan showed bilateral migratory pulmonary infiltrates.

2. Of, for, relating to, characterized by, or involving migration.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > migration > [adjective]

migratorya1797

migratorial1865

a1797 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1812) V. 518 This purpose [sc. intermixture of mankind] is sometimes carried on by a sort of migratory instinct; sometimes by the spirit of conquest.

1801 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. II. ii. 340 The Saigas are of a migratory disposition.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 594 The second or Gyrated Variety [of psoriasis] runs in a migratory course.

1826 T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds (1847) I. p. xxix (note) Their long migratory flight..to their halting places.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xliv. 220 Attempts have been made to construct elaborate migratory charts of the sperm whale.

1920 E. Wharton Age of Innocence xix. 185 The eight tall ushers, gathering themselves together like birds or insects preparing for some migratory manoeuvre, were already slipping through the side doors.

1968 R. O. C. Norman Princ. Org. Synthesis xiv. 435 Aryl groups have a far greater migratory aptitude than alkyl groups or hydrogen.

1976 T. Cooper Guide to Bees & Honey ii. iv. 88 Migratory beekeeping is where the beekeeper moves his colonies directly to fields of nectar-producing crops.., or to natural areas of dense forage.

1992 Organometallics 11 1372/1 The majority of fast hydride migratory processes involve coordination numbers greater than 6.

B. n.

rare. A migratory person; a migratory bird.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp

harlot?c1225

raikera1400

vacabond1404

vagrant1444

gangrela1450

briber?c1475

palliard1484

vagabondc1485

rogue1489

wavenger1493

hermit1495

gaberlunzie1508

knight of the field1508

loiterer1530

straggler1530

runagate1534

ruffler1535

hedge-creeper1548

Abraham man1567

cursitor1567

runner1567

walker1567

tinker1575

traveller1598

Tartar1602

stravagant1606

wagand1614

Circumcellion1623

meechera1625

hedge-bird1631

gaberlunzie man1649

tramp1664

stroller1681

jockey1685

bird of passage1717

randy1724

tramper1760

stalko1804

vagabondager1813

rintherout1814

piker1838

pikey1838

beachcomber1840

roadster1851

vagabondizer1860

roustabout1862

bum1864

migratory1866

potter1867

sundowner1868

vag1868

walkabout1872

transient1877

Murrumbidgee whaler1878

rouster1882

run-the-hedge1882

whaler1883

shaughraun1884

heather-cat1886

hobo1889

tussocker1889

gay cat1893

overlander1898

stake-man1899

stiff1899

bindle-stiff1900

dingbat1902

stew-bum1902

tired Tim (also Timothy)1906

skipper1925

Strandlooper1927

knight of the road1928

hobohemian1936

plain turkey1955

scrub turkey1955

derro1963

jakey1988

crusty1990

1866 Harper's Mag. Jan. 234/2 The biennial journeys of the wild-goose would encompass the globe, and others of the migratories are capable of long flights; but if they find suitable stopping-places they prefer to accomplish the way by easy stages.

1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 27 Winged migratories, having but heaven for home.

1915 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 30 113 The final third were the migratories,—the pure hobo, or..the ‘fruit tramp’.

1932 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 37 926 The beginning of a satisfactory code of treatment was arrived at for the migratories in all parts of the country.

Compounds

migratory labour n. = migrant labour n. at migrant adj. and n. Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > casual or temporary worker > collectively

casual labour1851

migratory labour1868

togt1901

migrant labour1913

1868 De Bow's Rev. Aug. 719 A large proportion of the harvest work on English farms is performed by migratory labor—; by men on tramp, who make their livelihood in that way.

1948 Rep. Native Laws Comm. 1946–8 (Dept. Native Affairs, S. Afr.) 8/1 The Natives in the Reserves..could no longer resist the pressure of over-population. No doubt, the system of migratory labour further retarded the process.

1985 S. Afr. Panorama June 35 It was on the Kimberley diamond mines that the system of employing migratory labour from the Black homelands was introduced for the first time.

migratory labour system n. = migrant labour system n. at migrant adj. and n. Compounds.

ΚΠ

1952 B. Davidson Rep. S. Afr. ii. iv. 111 Many business men already understand the need..to bring the migratory labour system to an end.

1989 Weekly Mail 3 Feb. 12 The migratory labour system has not only given rise to violence, it has resulted in the suppression of..fundamental human rights.

migratory locust n. any locust or grasshopper that is characterized by migrating; spec. and originally the large locust Locusta migratoria (widespread in tropical and subtropical areas of the Old World), which periodically increases suddenly in numbers, performs mass migrations, and devastates vegetation.

ΚΠ

1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 255 (heading) The migratory locust.

1871 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (rev. ed.) xl. 260 The Migratory Locust (Acrydium migratorium..) of Africa and Southern Asia.

1925 Ecology 6 459 The reviewer was impressed with..a similar relation between the Rocky Mountain Locust (Melanoplus spretus Uhl.) and the Lesser Migratory Locust (M. atlanis Riley).

1947 New Biol. 3 9 One of the best studied locusts is the Migratory locust (Locusta migratoria) which occurs in many countries of the Old World, including south-eastern Europe.

1972 Science 24 Mar. 1330/2 Populations can build up on the ground until conditions are favorable, whereupon a mass exodus may occur. Aphids provide good examples of this phenomenon as do the various migratory locusts.

1996 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93 8654/1 In the migratory locust, Locusta migratoria, three AKHs are found, a decapeptide and two octapeptides.

migratory worker n. = migrant worker n. at migrant adj. and n. Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > itinerant labourer

roundsman1795

rounder1817

roundman1827

row-man1840

mud-dauber1866

stiff1899

migratory worker1915

migrant worker1923

1915 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 30 111 The two years of 1913 and 1914 will be known in western labor history as ‘the period of the migratory worker’.

1939 Fortune Oct. 104/1 Government payments to..rehabilitate tenant farmers and migratory workers..represent sound policy.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	migratory
释义	migratoryadj.n. Brit. /ˈmʌɪɡrət(ə)ri/, /mʌɪˈɡreɪt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈmaɪɡrəˌtɔri/ Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin. Or (ii) formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Latin migratorius ; migrate v., -ory suffix². Etymology: Either < post-classical Latin migratorius (see below; < classical Latin migrāt- , past participial stem of migrāre migrate v. + -ōrius -ory suffix²), or independently < migrate v. + -ory suffix².For earlier use of post-classical Latin migratorius, compare the passage below (translated ‘Which we call Birds of passage’ by Ray in 1678):1676 F. Willughby & J. Ray Ornithologiæ i. ix. 17 Avium..quæ statis anni temporibus advolant iterumque discedunt, migratoriæ dictæ. N.E.D. (1906) gives only the pronunciation (məi·grĕtəri) /ˈmaɪɡrətərɪ/. A. adj. 1. a. Of an animal: characterized by or given to migration, esp. of a periodic or seasonal kind.In the names of animals sometimes translating the specific epithet migratorius, as in migratory locust n. at Compounds, †migratory pigeon (= passenger pigeon n.), †migratory thrush (= robin n.¹ 3). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > [adjective] > migratory migranta1682 migratory1708 migrating1753 emigrating1792 emigrant1796 emigratory?1839 migrational1888 1708 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 26 123 Their inquisitive Friends..note down the very Day they first see or hear of the Approach of any of the Migratory Birds. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Bird Migratory Birds, the same with birds of passage. 1772 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 398 Migratory Pigeon. 1793 J. Leslie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Birds VI. 489 [Swallows.] Some are there permanent settlers and others migratory. 1831 R. Jameson Wilson & Bonaparte's Amer. Ornithol. (rev. ed.) II. 293 Columba migratoria, Linnæus and Wilson. Migratory Pigeon... The wild pigeon of the United States. 1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies 206 We were on the great highway of these migratory herds. 1839 T. C. Hofland Brit. Angler's Man. (1841) iv. 107 It [sc. the grayling] is very migratory, and frequently leaves one part of the river for another. 1857 F. Gerhard Illinois as it Is 253 In autumn and spring millions of migratory pigeons (Ectopistes migratoria, And.), arrive. 1876 A. R. Wallace Geogr. Distrib. Animals I. i. i. 20 The same species is often sedentary in one part of Europe and migratory in another. 1900 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 14/1 Then the robin (the migratory thrush), with his bold, cheery note, full of summer life. 1925 S. C. Cronwright-Schreiner (title) Migratory Springbucks. 1966 R. H. Davidson & L. M. Peairs Insect Pests (ed. 6) viii. 129 The Rocky Mountain grasshopper is considered the most important migratory species in the United States and Canada. 1994 New Scientist 14 May 10/1 Siberian cranes (Grus leucogeranus) are one of the world's most endangered species of migratory birds. b. Of a person, a people, etc.: moving temporarily or seasonally from place to place; nomadic; given to travelling. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > migration > [adjective] > given to migration flittingc1425 migratory1755 migrant1807 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Horde, a clan; a migratory crew of people. 1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul iii. iii. 385 The..migratory tribes to the west of the pass of Gholairee. 1826 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 116 Migratory, as our Indians are, they all have, with few exceptions, certain districts which they have occupied for ages. 1834 Lady's Bk. Feb. 85 Rivertonians, in general, were not a migratory people; one trip to New York city, and two as far as Albany, often sufficing for life-time adventures. 1874 J. F. Watson & J. W. Kaye People of India VII. 404 Korkoos are more migratory than Gonds. 1911 Publ. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 12 485 Scarcity of migratory laborers is thus one of the causes tending to drive out extensive grain farming. 1967 D. Jenness Indians of Canada (ed. 7) ix. 126 The plains' Indians, although migratory themselves, had advanced one stage further than the migratory tribes of eastern and northern Canada. 1989 B. Head Tales Tenderness & Power (1990) 49 Desert people are migratory people. At very little provocation a whole village of cousins, aunts, parents, children will move off..overnight. c. Of a person, people, etc.: moving permanently from one country, locality, place of residence, or place of employment to another. ΚΠ 1838 A. Jameson Winter Stud. & Summer Rambles Canada II. 277 There are on board..also one large family of American emigrants... Such a group could be encountered nowhere on earth..but here in the west, or among the migratory Tartar hordes of the east. 1846 J. Hall Wilderness & War Path 2 It was the village of a migratory people, habituated to sudden changes of residence, and always ready to move at a moment's warning, with all their population and property. 1878 19th Cent. Mar. 449 Our population is so migratory that recruits are seldom enlisted in the parishes they were born in. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar v. 41 A vast migratory wave of population had been set in motion behind the Rhine and Danube. 1917 A. Henderson in T. Godfrey Prince of Parthia 20 During the second quarter of the century, North Carolina became a Mecca for the migratory population of Pennsylvania. 1966 Demography 3 355/1 (heading) The Migratory Stream. 1988 Demography 25 447 The migratory population tends to be especially selective with respect to measures..such as age and education. d. Medicine and Embryology. Of a cell or organ: moving from one position in the body to another; moving out of a blood vessel into the tissues. Also: of or relating to such movement. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > part of body > [adjective] > migratory flying1805 migratory1874 1874 Proc. Royal Soc. 1873–4 22 389 The channels are more or less filled with migratory, or lymph, corpuscles. 1877 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. XV. 763 The Movable (Migratory) Kidney. 1885 Proc. Royal Soc. 1884–5 38 359 Subsequently migratory cells from the somites apply themselves to the endoderm and ectoderm. 1927 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 13 374 The penetration of an embryonic optic nerve into the medulla determines a migratory avalanche of the medullar cells about it. 1949 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 136 459 The inhibition of Schwann cell migratory activity by adhesion of Schwann cells to nerve fibres. 1971 Science 15 Jan. 138 (caption) A migratory glial cell. 2001 Developmental Biol. 234 352 Diverse trunk and limb blood vessels have endothelial cells that developed from migratory somitic angioblasts. e. Medicine. Affecting different parts of the body (esp. different joints) in turn; changing position within the body or within an organ. ΚΠ 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 594 The..Gyrated Variety [of psoriasis] runs in a migratory course.] 1879 P. H. Chavasse Advice to Wife Managem. Health 178 False [labour] pains are generally migratory—changing from place to place—first attacking..one part, then another. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 13 One of the most characteristic features of the disease [sc. Acute Rheumatism] is the migratory nature of the joint affection. 1977 Ann. Internal Med. 86 687/2 The patient continued to have migratory pains in large and small joints. 1989 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Med. 82 553/1 A woman who developed typical features of the glucagonoma syndrome including..necrolytic migratory erythema and markedly raised glucagon levels. 2001 Respiratory Med. 95 348 Chest X-ray and computed tomography scan showed bilateral migratory pulmonary infiltrates. 2. Of, for, relating to, characterized by, or involving migration. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > furnishing with inhabitants > migration > [adjective] migratorya1797 migratorial1865 a1797 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1812) V. 518 This purpose [sc. intermixture of mankind] is sometimes carried on by a sort of migratory instinct; sometimes by the spirit of conquest. 1801 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. II. ii. 340 The Saigas are of a migratory disposition. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 594 The second or Gyrated Variety [of psoriasis] runs in a migratory course. 1826 T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds (1847) I. p. xxix (note) Their long migratory flight..to their halting places. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xliv. 220 Attempts have been made to construct elaborate migratory charts of the sperm whale. 1920 E. Wharton Age of Innocence xix. 185 The eight tall ushers, gathering themselves together like birds or insects preparing for some migratory manoeuvre, were already slipping through the side doors. 1968 R. O. C. Norman Princ. Org. Synthesis xiv. 435 Aryl groups have a far greater migratory aptitude than alkyl groups or hydrogen. 1976 T. Cooper Guide to Bees & Honey ii. iv. 88 Migratory beekeeping is where the beekeeper moves his colonies directly to fields of nectar-producing crops.., or to natural areas of dense forage. 1992 Organometallics 11 1372/1 The majority of fast hydride migratory processes involve coordination numbers greater than 6. B. n. rare. A migratory person; a migratory bird. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp harlot?c1225 raikera1400 vacabond1404 vagrant1444 gangrela1450 briber?c1475 palliard1484 vagabondc1485 rogue1489 wavenger1493 hermit1495 gaberlunzie1508 knight of the field1508 loiterer1530 straggler1530 runagate1534 ruffler1535 hedge-creeper1548 Abraham man1567 cursitor1567 runner1567 walker1567 tinker1575 traveller1598 Tartar1602 stravagant1606 wagand1614 Circumcellion1623 meechera1625 hedge-bird1631 gaberlunzie man1649 tramp1664 stroller1681 jockey1685 bird of passage1717 randy1724 tramper1760 stalko1804 vagabondager1813 rintherout1814 piker1838 pikey1838 beachcomber1840 roadster1851 vagabondizer1860 roustabout1862 bum1864 migratory1866 potter1867 sundowner1868 vag1868 walkabout1872 transient1877 Murrumbidgee whaler1878 rouster1882 run-the-hedge1882 whaler1883 shaughraun1884 heather-cat1886 hobo1889 tussocker1889 gay cat1893 overlander1898 stake-man1899 stiff1899 bindle-stiff1900 dingbat1902 stew-bum1902 tired Tim (also Timothy)1906 skipper1925 Strandlooper1927 knight of the road1928 hobohemian1936 plain turkey1955 scrub turkey1955 derro1963 jakey1988 crusty1990 1866 Harper's Mag. Jan. 234/2 The biennial journeys of the wild-goose would encompass the globe, and others of the migratories are capable of long flights; but if they find suitable stopping-places they prefer to accomplish the way by easy stages. 1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 27 Winged migratories, having but heaven for home. 1915 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 30 113 The final third were the migratories,—the pure hobo, or..the ‘fruit tramp’. 1932 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 37 926 The beginning of a satisfactory code of treatment was arrived at for the migratories in all parts of the country. Compounds migratory labour n. = migrant labour n. at migrant adj. and n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > casual or temporary worker > collectively casual labour1851 migratory labour1868 togt1901 migrant labour1913 1868 De Bow's Rev. Aug. 719 A large proportion of the harvest work on English farms is performed by migratory labor—; by men on tramp, who make their livelihood in that way. 1948 Rep. Native Laws Comm. 1946–8 (Dept. Native Affairs, S. Afr.) 8/1 The Natives in the Reserves..could no longer resist the pressure of over-population. No doubt, the system of migratory labour further retarded the process. 1985 S. Afr. Panorama June 35 It was on the Kimberley diamond mines that the system of employing migratory labour from the Black homelands was introduced for the first time. migratory labour system n. = migrant labour system n. at migrant adj. and n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1952 B. Davidson Rep. S. Afr. ii. iv. 111 Many business men already understand the need..to bring the migratory labour system to an end. 1989 Weekly Mail 3 Feb. 12 The migratory labour system has not only given rise to violence, it has resulted in the suppression of..fundamental human rights. migratory locust n. any locust or grasshopper that is characterized by migrating; spec. and originally the large locust Locusta migratoria (widespread in tropical and subtropical areas of the Old World), which periodically increases suddenly in numbers, performs mass migrations, and devastates vegetation. ΚΠ 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 255 (heading) The migratory locust. 1871 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. (rev. ed.) xl. 260 The Migratory Locust (Acrydium migratorium..) of Africa and Southern Asia. 1925 Ecology 6 459 The reviewer was impressed with..a similar relation between the Rocky Mountain Locust (Melanoplus spretus Uhl.) and the Lesser Migratory Locust (M. atlanis Riley). 1947 New Biol. 3 9 One of the best studied locusts is the Migratory locust (Locusta migratoria) which occurs in many countries of the Old World, including south-eastern Europe. 1972 Science 24 Mar. 1330/2 Populations can build up on the ground until conditions are favorable, whereupon a mass exodus may occur. Aphids provide good examples of this phenomenon as do the various migratory locusts. 1996 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93 8654/1 In the migratory locust, Locusta migratoria, three AKHs are found, a decapeptide and two octapeptides. migratory worker n. = migrant worker n. at migrant adj. and n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > itinerant labourer roundsman1795 rounder1817 roundman1827 row-man1840 mud-dauber1866 stiff1899 migratory worker1915 migrant worker1923 1915 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 30 111 The two years of 1913 and 1914 will be known in western labor history as ‘the period of the migratory worker’. 1939 Fortune Oct. 104/1 Government payments to..rehabilitate tenant farmers and migratory workers..represent sound policy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1708
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