bogmann.
/ˈbɒɡman/, U.S. /ˈbɔɡˌmæn/, /ˈbɑɡˌmæn/ 1. A person who inhabits a boggy area. Hence (chiefly Irish English, frequently derogatory): a person from a rural area, a peasant.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [noun]
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > dweller on low land > dweller in marsh
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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.
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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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