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- noun Plural form of
bogtrotter .
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Examples
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They'll love, assuming they take kindly to being called bogtrotters as well.
Irish Blogs 2009
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And what need had he of these things in a new country where the most ignorant of bogtrotters had made great fortunes? in this country which asked only that a man be strong and unafraid of work?
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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And what need had he of these things in a new country where the most ignorant of bogtrotters had made great fortunes? in this country which asked only that a man be strong and unafraid of work?
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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And what need had he of these things in a new country where the most ignorant of bogtrotters had made great fortunes? in this country which asked only that a man be strong and unafraid of work?
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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And what need had he of these things in a new country where the most ignorant of bogtrotters had made great fortunes? in this country which asked only that a man be strong and unafraid of work?
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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And what need had he of these things in a new country where the most ignorant of bogtrotters had made great fortunes? in this country which asked only that a man be strong and unafraid of work?
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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Murtagh, without a word of reply, went to the door, and shouting into the passage something in Irish, the room was instantly filled with bogtrotters.
Participles. 1908
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When we have it arranged I will call together three hundred, as the Times called them, bogtrotters, but better men never stepped on pavement.
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Murtagh, without a word of reply, went to the door, and shouting into the passage something in Irish, the room was instantly filled with bogtrotters, each at least six feet high, with a stout shillealah in his hand.
The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842
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Murtagh, without a word of reply, went to the door, and shouting into the passage something in Irish, the room was instantly filled with bogtrotters, each at least six feet high, with a stout shillelah in his hand.
The Romany Rye George Henry Borrow 1842
jaime_d commented on the word bogtrotters
Irish term for peasants
January 11, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word bogtrotters
And derogatory/offensive term for Irish people.
January 12, 2009