plough-joggerplow-joggern.
/ˈplaʊdʒɒɡə/, U.S. /ˈplaʊˌdʒɑɡər/ humorous and derogatory. Now rare (chiefly U.S. in later use).
A person who ‘jogs’ or pushes a plough, a ploughman; (in extended use) a farmer or rural labourer.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > [noun] > ploughman or woman
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ploughman1223
earmana1250
ploughswain1296
earera1382
plougher?1518
balker1549
scratcher1557
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plough-jogger1600
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plough woman1783
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1600 R. Armin Foole vpon Foole sig. D1v A country Plow Jogger..secretly stole a peece of shoomakers waxe..and comming behinde him, clapt him on the head.
a1658 J. Cleveland Rustick Rampant in Wks. (1687) 429 A medley..of Botchers, Coblers,..Draymen,..and Plough-joggers.
1722 New-Eng. Courant 15–22 Jan. 2/1 It will be well for the World if thou art destin'd to be a Porter or a Plough-jogger.
c1787 in Q. Rev. Jan. (1882) 66 He was..a plain man..who begged to say a few words to his ‘brother plough-joggers’.
?1822 J. H. Payne Love in Humble Life 9 I am no longer a ploughjogger; I'm an officer.
a1852 F. M. Whitcher Widow Bedott Papers (1856) xx. 207 I wanted old Dawson's wife to see't I'd got a pardner ruther above a common plow-jogger, such as hern is.
1862 Harper's Mag. Nov. 782/2 City folks most generally fetch along a lot of traps and finery to show off afore us plowjoggers.
1865 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1861–4 5 255 At least the old plow jogger will be mounted on his buggy seat.
1880 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 469/2 He might have been one of the ‘plow joggers’, as Alonzo derisively styled the rural farmers thereabouts.
1958 Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 9 Oct. 20/2 Many Berkshire plow-joggers are leading lives of quiet desperation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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