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单词 bog people
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bog peoplen.

Brit. /ˈbɒɡ ˌpiːpl/, U.S. /ˈbɔɡ ˌpip(ə)l/, /ˈbɑɡ ˌpip(ə)l/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bog n.1, people n.
Etymology: < bog n.1 + people n. In sense 2 after Danish mosefolket (1965, in source translated in quot. 1969 at sense 2).
With plural agreement.
1. Collectively: the inhabitants of a boggy area. rare.
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1878 Times 29 Jan. 4/6 The old troglodytes, pile-villagers, and bog-people prove to be quite a respectable society.
1988 Toronto Star (Nexis) 29 Nov. w10 Chevrier and other bog people..are appealing to citizens to join a city-wide movement to convince Mississauga city council that the picturesque wetland is a chunk of local natural history that is worthy of preservation.
2. Collectively: the bodies, typically belonging to pre-Christian Germanic cultures, found in a well-preserved state in peatbogs in northern Europe. Cf. bogman n. 2.
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1969 R. Bruce-Mitford tr. P. V. Glob (title) The bog people: Iron-Age man preserved.
1988 Paleobiology 14 334 The so-called ‘bog people’ from the peats of northern Germany, Scandinavia, Britain, and Ireland..have been mistaken for recent murder victims.
1996 A. Michaels Fugitive Pieces ii. 221 I had discovered the perfectly preserved bog people in National Geographic , and derived a fascinated comfort from their preservation.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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