单词 | progger |
释义 | proggern.1 1. British regional and Irish English. A person who solicits for something, esp. habitually; a beggar. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar beggara1250 bidder1362 mendinantc1395 mendivaunt1395 craver1406 thigger1424 gangrela1450 mendicant1474 mendiant1483 eremite1495 Lazarus?a1513 truandals1523 bellyterc1540 clapperdudgeon1567 beggar-man1608 maunder1609 maunderer1611 Abraham cove1612 eleemosynary1643 mumpera1652 jockey1685 progger1685 asker1708 thigster1710 prog1828 shooler1830 cadger1851 panhandler1893 Weary Willie1896 schlepper1901 plinger1904 peg-legger1915 tapper1930 clochard1940 1685 R. Lucas Enq. Happiness i. ii. 47 How far should I prefer the..unconcernment of a Poet..before the former sort of servile Philosophic Proggers! 1703 Fox with Fire-brand Unkennell’d & Insnar’d 22 The Church Party..were always such Drudges and Proggers for one another. 1799 C. Schwiers Gram. Dutch Lang. 282/1 Baatzoeker, progger. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Prooagers, beggars. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 262/2 Progger, a scrounger. 2. U.S. regional (esp. Chesapeake Bay). A person who forages around marshes and beaches for clams, crabs, etc. ΚΠ 1774 L. Carter Diary 27 June (1965) II. 840 He then became a great progger in Catching fish, Beavers, otters, Muskrats, and Minxes with his traps. 1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods II. 604 A miserable set who help the oystermen in winter and ‘go clamming’ in summer. They are locally known as ‘proggers’. 1944 Sun (Baltimore) 4 Mar. 8/3 Gilbert Byron has presented us with one of his most characteristic poems, all about the ‘progger’, who is, in Delaware and Chesapeake tidewater parlance, a fellow who makes a living by oystering, digging clams and doing odd jobs along shore. 1973 Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 2 121 The white watermen of the lower Eastern Shore of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay... These ‘proggers’ living off the crabs, oysters, terrapins, ells, ducks, and other creatures of the bay and marshes possessed a distinctive subculture. 2001 J. Barth Coming Soon 363 Just an old-time Chesapeake progger's what I am, and you'd be s'prised what turns up in these marshes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). proggern.2 English regional (northern) and Scottish. A butcher's spike or knife; (also gen.) any sharp implement used for stabbing or piercing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > hook or frame for hanging meat cambrelc1450 gambrel1547 butcher's hook1596 flesh-hook1596 cambren1656 shamble-hook1688 stage1715 meathook1771 progger1818 gamble1831 gallows1866 gammon1874 1818 W. Midford Coll. Songs 46 in Eng. Dial. Dict. The progger an' steel. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words 552 Progger, a butcher's stabbing knife. 1962 ‘C. Marchant’ Heritage of Folly i. 37 A short silence followed, broken only by the sound of the progger as Mrs Batley thrust it through the hessian. 1974 S. Dobson Geordie Dict. 50 Progger, a butcher's stabbing knife. 1985 Conc. Sc. Dict. 522/1 Progger, a pricker, marking point. 1998 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 25 July 17 Re: the lady having difficulty finding proggers for clippy mats. The idea used when I was younger was when a wooden clothes peg broke was to sharpen the unbroken end to a sharp point. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11685n.21818 |
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