"Bogtrotter" . . . . . my new word for today......

[Bullwinkle925]

I've resolved at the end of my journal entry that I shall flip open the dictionary and point to a word. If it is unknown to me, I write it in the journal with definition.

"Bogtrotter: (1) A person who lives in or frequents bogs. (hmmm)

(2) Offensive: an Irishman -now I have never heard that slur used. If I ever do, I shall bop the person square in the nose!

:shrug:

[mulsh]

1. just to piss him off my Irish grandmother would say to my

Irish grandfather, " bogtrotter" if this didn't rile him up she'd tell one and all " his people slept with the pigs" They were married for over 50 years so I guess things worked out. But I learned the hard way not to ever call him a bogtrotter. He was anything but a bogtrotter and his family had horses, no pigs. I never found out if they slept with the horses.

[Bullwinkle925]

2. now that is just too funny . . . . .

hey - you're just up the road from me. I'm going to Piedmont Ave tonight to the movies.

[Gormy Cuss]

3. Watch your mouth.

That's a slang term that I haven't heard since I was a kid when the immigrant-generation in my old neighborhood was still living and was also frequently hurling insults at each other. I learned lots of ethnic slurs that way.

[mcctatas]

4. PaddyBlueEyes always calls me a bogtrotter...

of course he is one of those damn lace-curtain heretical Irish so what does he know :P

[PaddyBlueEyes]

5. Alright You

Lace Curtain...wtf? We are rock throwers from waaaay back. so there..bogtrotter.

[Dr. Strange]

6. The Bogtrotters...isn't that that basketball team from Ireland?

You know the ones.

[evlbstrd]

7. I prefer Mackerel snapping Mick

Thank you very much.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

8. Used to play softball on a team called

The Bogtrotters! Probably because we're in Seattle and well, it can seem like a bog sometimes......... :bounce: