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单词 progging
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proggingn.

Brit. /ˈprɒɡɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈprɑɡɪŋ/
Forms: 1500s– progging, 1600s proguing, 1900s– praggin (Caribbean); U.S. regional (north-eastern) 1900s– proging, 1900s– progueing.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prog v.1, -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < prog v.1 + -ing suffix1.
1. The action or process of soliciting; begging. Obsolete.
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the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > begging
thigging1331
cravingc1430
rogation?1536
progging1579
skeldering1600
begging1606
beggary1608
maunding1608
maund1610
gooding1646
mendication1646
mumping1685
mendicity1756
cadge1819
cadging1859
mumpery1894
plinging1910
yegging1913
panhandling1931
aggressive panhandling1981
1579 E. Hake Newes out of Powles Churchyarde newly Renued iii. sig. Ciii I heare so much deceat of theirs in progging after gaine, as tongue can not repeat.
1607 R. West Court of Conscience sig. D2v You neuer were in seruice, you refuse To leaue this shameles course & kind of progging.
1649 J. Milton Tenure of Kings 41 Being call'd to assemble about reforming the Church, they fell to progging and solliciting the Parlament..for a new setling of thir Tithes and Oblations.
1650 M. Nedham Case Common-wealth Eng. 54 A People..poor in Body, Pay, and other Accommodations, save what they have purchased by proguing here in England.
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 389 [He] practiced for divers years progging tricks in employing necessitous persons..to get contributions.
1701 W. Nicholls Treat. Consol. Parents xxvii. 77 Life, which was before wholly engaged in carking and caring and progging for others.
1783 T. Holcroft Human Happiness 6 Nor can your wheedling, or your flogging, keep her consistent in her progging.
2. regional. The action or process of foraging, delving; searching or hunting about, esp. for timber or firewood (British regional), or for food (U.S. regional (esp. Chesapeake Bay), Caribbean, Irish English). Also occasionally: the wood or food for which one forages. Also attributive.
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1680 in J. H. Rieuwerts Gloss. Derbyshire Lead Mining Terms (1998) 123/1 Wee have made several holes on Hopton Moor by progging.
1715 J. Chappelow Right Way to be Rich 87 All their plodding and progging is for themselves.
1785 W. Hutton Bran New Wark 412 Careful for nought but progging for belly-timber.
1873 C. J. G. Rampini Lett. from Jamaica 92 On ‘progging day’ [sc. the weekly Saturday market] no one ever dreams of staying at home.
1937 Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune 24 Dec. 14/2 Tyrone arranges a ‘progging’ expedition, a new pastime of spear-fishing at night under powerful searchlights, and the entire party is invited.
1969 Jrnl. Lancs. Dial. Soc. 7 Words for ‘the collection of material for burning on November 5th’... The southern word is ‘chumping’ and the northern ‘progging’.
1976 W. W. Warner Beautiful Swimmers xii. 285 Progging can also be the occasional trapping of muskrat and mink, gigging for eels or even dipping for peeler crabs.
1989 Oxf. Times Nov. (Limited Edition Suppl.) 15/1 The rhyme..was chanted by Oxfordshire boys while going round the villages collecting fuel for their bonfires... This activity was known as ‘going a-progging’.
2001 J. Barth Coming Soon 2 I tossed..[it] in the crab-basket with my other objets trouvés and carried on with my progging.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

proggingadj.

Forms: see prog v.1 and -ing suffix2.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prog v.1, -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < prog v.1 + -ing suffix2.
Obsolete.
Of a person: that solicits, begs, or forages. Also in extended use.
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a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Spanish Curat iii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. F2v/1 That man in the Gowne, in my opinion Lookes like a proaguing knave.
1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. F3v But when to plantall life quick sense is ti'd, And progging phansie, then upon her guard She gins to stand.
1650 A. Weldon Court & Char. King James ii. 185 Suppressing Promoters, and progging fellows.
1702 Saul & Samuel 45 These old assertors of his Liberties and Properties, that had ever more to lose than this progging Priest and Levite.
1750 C. de Missy Bribery Satire 21 This, among us, by whom most buzz'd or roar'd?.. By progging traders—highwaymen—and smugglers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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