The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bogtrotter \Bog"trot`ter\, n.
One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to
the lowest class of Irish.
--Halliwell.
Wiktionary
n. One who lives in a boggy country; applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish.
Usage examples of "bogtrotter".
When a gentleman has had a particularly good meal, Bogtrotter, he always sends his compliments to the chef.
Or perhaps it was a booby-trapped cake and the whole thing would blow up the moment it was cut, taking Bruce Bogtrotter with it.
Bruce Bogtrotter was three-quarters of the way through and still going strong.
She glared at Bruce Bogtrotter who was sitting on his chair like some huge overstuffed grub, replete, comatose, unable to move or to speak.
She raised it high in the air and brought it down with a crash right on the top of the wretched Bruce Bogtrotter's head and pieces flew all over the platform.
When the bogtrotter created a diversion, he really created a diversion.
Thomas shrugged, hoping that theyd never find the bogtrotters burned bones in the wreckage where they most likely resided.
And what need had he of these things in a new country where the most ignorant of bogtrotters had made great fortunes?
He was making them laugh even three years later as he lay in his bedroom, dying of esophageal cancer, eyes glassy with morphine, telling stories about Padeen the bogtrotter in a hoarse whisper while his old mates visited and sometimes held his hand when the pain was especially bad.