单词 | bogman |
释义 | bogmann. 1. A person who inhabits a boggy area. Hence (chiefly Irish English, frequently derogatory): a person from a rural area, a peasant. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun] churlc1275 Hobc1325 Hodgec1386 charla1400 carlc1405 peasanta1450 hoggler1465 agrest1480 hoggener1488 rustical?1532 boor1548 rusticc1550 kern1556 clown1563 Jocka1568 John Uponlanda1568 russet coat1568 rustican1570 hind?1577 Corydon1581 gaffer1589 gran1591 russeting1597 dunghill1608 hog rubber1611 carlota1616 high shoe1647 Bonhomme1660 high-shoon-man1664 cot1695 ruralist1739 Johnnya1774 Harry1796 bodach1830 bucolic1862 cafone1872 bogman1891 country bookie1904 desi1907 middle peasant1929 woodchuck1931 swede-basher1943 moegoe1953 shit-kicker1961 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > dweller on low land > dweller in marsh marshman1455 swamper1775 bogman1891 marshlander1896 1891 Scribner's Mag. Jan. 4/1 Think of troglodytes, pile-villagers, bog-men, riverdrift-men, cave-men, men of the stone, bronze, iron, or steel ages, down to the highly cultured Bostonian men and women of the period. 1937 O. St. J. Gogarty As I was going down Sackville St. 165 I'll not let the bagmen or the bogmen drag me down. 1974 D. Sears Lark in Clear Air i. 21 There ain't..nothing there but wild steers, beaver hay and bog-men. 1992 P. McCabe Butcher Boy (1993) 16 By God Father that's a cold one I said rubbing my hands real bogman style. 2005 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 14 Nov. 31 Behan hated bogmen—rural types comme moi. 2. Any of the bodies, typically belonging to pre-Christian Germanic cultures, found in a well-preserved state in peatbogs in Britain and elsewhere in northern Europe. ΚΠ 1969 R. Bruce-Mitford tr. P. V. Glob Bog People iii. 69 It was purely by chance that a bog man came to light for the second time in a fen at Rørbaek, in north Jutland. 1977 Washington Post 1 June d1/1 Said bog men were found buried (where else?) in a bog outside of Silkenborg. 1991 D. Coupland Generation X i. x. 55 His skin was all folded like a shrunken apple-head person's, but it was dark, peat-colored, and shiny like an old baseball mitt or the Bog Man of Denmark. 1996 A. Michaels Fugitive Pieces i. 49 And that is why..the bog men are so serene. Asleep for centuries, they are uncovered perfectly intact; thus they outlast their killers—whose bodies have long dissolved to dust. 1999 Science Sept. 1485/4 Ötzi and one of Britain's ‘bog men’ were wearing ‘almost the exact same hat’ even though they were separated by 4000 years. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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