单词 | togt-ganger |
释义 | > as lemmastogt-ganger togt-ganger n. [ < Afrikaans togganger (also used)] a travelling trader. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > itinerant piepowderc1436 kedger1497 badgera1500 cadger?a1500 chapman?1593 peripateticc1600 haggler1602 higgler1637 mugger1743 truckerc1790 smouch1849 smouse1850 togt-ganger1879 kurveyor1885 smouser1903 machinga1993 1879 Cape Monthly Mag. Feb. 88 For a long time he used to accompany the togtgangers (hawkers or traders). 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Tocht ganger. 1896 R. Wallace Farming Industries Cape Colony 91 The plant [sc. prickly pear] was first spread in the Colony by transport riders or ‘togt-gangers’. 1957 L. G. Green Beyond City Lights 31 In slack times the clever speculators known as toggangers would drive out of Paarl with cavalcades of carts and wagons. < as lemmas |
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