单词 | bog people |
释义 | bog peoplen. With plural agreement. 1. Collectively: the inhabitants of a boggy area. rare. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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). < n.1878 |
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