bogman

bogman

(ˈbɒɡˌmæn)
n, pl -men
(Archaeology) archaeol the body of a person found preserved in a peat bog
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bogman

Any human body found preserved in a peat bog, such as in Ireland.
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He then dismissed Bogman as he played back to the ball and again the stumps were sent tumbling.
You never know who you might run into From a Bogman on Roath Park Lake to storyteller Peter Finch seeing off the Red Route Marchers, there are plenty of surprises lurking around every corner at the annual celebration.
The excellent I'm A Bogman, with its lyrics about "bringing home the turf, no matter what the weather," evoked the harsh life on the land, and the anger and disgust were palpable when he sang Viva La Quinca Brigada, about the fight against Franco in the Spanish Civil War and Ireland's support for Franco.
Evan's brother Tom won the Confined race on Fruit Fayre at Bitterly where Jason Cook took the Maiden on The Bogman's Ball.
Leon Redler, who helped Fowler realize Bogman Palmjaguar, 2007, a cinematic portrait of a grizzled, delusional environmental activist living a hermit's life in the Scottish wetlands.
Bogman's Music (nominated for a Governor General's Award).
Then the Connemara Bogman's Ball is not to be missed.
"By reclassifying our slaves as 'cattle', we'll receive grants to feed and house them," explained Northern Ireland Farmer's Union spokesman Josias Bogman yesterday, while parking his Range Rover outside his 8-bedroom house in South Armagh.
Well, the crotchety old maids and boney-arsed bogman who live within close proximity to the museum came to feel that the sounds of skateboards click-clacking about the grounds were starting to drown out the ambiance of sirens, horns, and homeless entrepreneurs who are temporarily out of work, cash, and mind.
Close friend and hotelier Basil Keogh said: "She was the belle at our Bogman's Ball every year, but we never thought she had a penny.
Patty's eccentric aunt refuses to believe in the "monster," however, and speculates that people project their own beastliness onto something external "so they can hate it, and they call it war, they call it the bogman, or beast, or wolf." Patty's boyfriend, a schoolteacher, argues likewise that the wolf is a misunderstood animal, even a holy creature, a scapegoat: "Theriophobia.
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