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单词 progger
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proggern.1

Brit. /ˈprɒɡə/, U.S. /ˈprɑɡər/
Forms: 1600s– progger, 1800s prooager (English regional (Yorkshire)).
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prog v.1, -er suffix1.
Etymology: < prog v.1 + -er suffix1. Compare earlier progging adj., prog man n.
1. British regional and Irish English. A person who solicits for something, esp. habitually; a beggar. Now rare.
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the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar
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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.
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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

Brit. /ˈprɒɡə/, U.S. /ˈprɑɡər/, Scottish English /ˈprɔɡər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prog v.2, -er suffix1.
Etymology: < prog v.2 + -er suffix1.
English regional (northern) and Scottish.
A butcher's spike or knife; (also gen.) any sharp implement used for stabbing or piercing.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > hook or frame for hanging meat
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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).
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