Bog-warrior

n.

Heard in Kilkenny

A resident of a rural area, often used dismissively.

In use

All he talks about is his new tractor, the bog-warrior

Posh English

He discourses of nothing but his new tractor, that turf-cutting gladiator of the swamps.

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