“bog、trotter”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

bog-trotter

释义

bog-trotter|ˈbɒg-ˌtrɒtə(r)|
[f. bog n. + trotter.]
†1. One accustomed to make his way across bogs, or to run to bogs for refuge. Obs.
1700Rycaut Hist. Turks III. 276 Being very nimble and active, and a kind of Bog-trotter, Achmet escaped over a Marsh.1755Johnson, Bog-trotter, one that lives in a boggy country.
2. spec. Applied to the wild Irish in the 17th c.; continued in the 18th c. as a nickname for Irishmen.
1682Philanax Misopappas, Tory Plot ii. 18 An idle flam of shabby Irish Bogtrotters.a1733North Lives I. 406 His friends were termed Bog trotters, wild Irish, or, which means the same thing, Tories.1753Smollett Ct. Fathom (1784) 80/1 A beggarly Scot, and an impudent Irish bog-trotter.1773Johnson Lett. 79. I. 132 Moss in Scotland is bog in Ireland, and moss-trooper is bog-trotter.1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 712 Two Irishmen, or, in the phrase of the newspapers of that day, bogtrotters.

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