swagman
suomi-englanti sanakirjaswagman englannista suomeksi
kulkuri
Substantiivi
swagman englanniksi
A man who travels around with a (l); specifically, an itinerant person, often seeking work in exchange for food and lodging.
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(quote-journal)|date=18 November 1865|year_published=1866|volume=I|issue=12|section=chapter XVIII (The New Hut)|page=177|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=a4pGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA177|column=2|oclc=173347690|passage=And then the swagman was such a companionable little fellow, and told such funny little yarns, and sung so many snatches of odd songs whilst he was at work that once or twice the old man relaxed the cross expression of his facial muscles, and allowed himself to be betrayed into a grim smile, and at last suffered himself to be drawn into conversation, although his answers were short and snappish.
(quote-journal); Sydney, N.S.W.: Joseph T. B. Gibbs and Joseph T. Shallard,(nb...)|date=14 September 1867|year_published=1866|volume=III|issue=107|page=44|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=EN82AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA44|column=2|oclc=173347690|passage=Then the bells struck up for church, and the streets became crowded with well-dressed, warmly-clothed people, hurrying to their various places of worship, and casting glances of pitying curiosity at the two miserable, half-drowned swagmen as they passed.
(quote-journal)|month=December|year=1869|volume=XXXVI (Third Series; volume LXVI overall)|issue=6|page=490|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=5XePJmT0I2cC&pg=PA490|column=2|oclc=911663817|passage=The class who exercise the most depressing influence on these rates, little as the unhappy men think themselves so, will be found to consist of idlers and swagmen.
(quote-book)|year=1872|page=122|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=WCFDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA122|oclc=474253747|passage=Some men, under this plea of "wanting a job," are merely travelling from one part of the country to another for private reasons, and they pick up meat, bread, and tea at each station they pass. ... We have already remarked that these bush- or swagmen carry "swags," ''i.e.'' a blanket made up into a roll six feet in length; the two ends lashed together making the whole resemble one huge horse-collar: this is carried either hanging from one shoulder or resting on the head and back like a coalheaver's pad.
(quote-book)|location=Sydney, N.S.W.|publisher=Angus & Robertson|month=August (date composed)|year=1895|year_published=1921 (1965 printing)|page=213|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/cu31924009183330/page/n232/mode/1up|oclc=5437229|passage=Oh! there once was a swagman camped in a Billabong, / Under the shade of a Coolabah tree; / And he sang as he looked at his old billy boiling, / "Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"
(quote-book)|year=1902|page=143|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/bushstudies00bayngoog/page/n155/mode/1up|oclc=557520454|passage=She was not afraid of horsemen; but swagmen, going to, or worse, coming from the dismal, drunken little township, a day′s journey beyond, terrified her. One had called at the house today, and asked for tucker.
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A person who sells or trades in trinkets or items of low value.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Griffin, George Bohn|Bohn, and Company,(nb...)|year=1861|volume=I|page=447|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=KBBbLQUv1tgC&pg=PA447|column=2|oclc=906088169|passage=The practice of selling by commission, the same as I have shown to prevail among the costers, exists among the miscellaneous dealers of whom I am treating, who are known among street-folk as "swag-barrowmen," or, in the popular ellipsis, "penny swags;" the word "swag" meaning, as I before showed, a collection—a lot. The "swag-men" are often confounded with the "lot-sellers"; ...
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