subs. (old).—An Irishman: see BOG-TROTTER.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. BOG-LANDERS, Irishmen.
1698–1700. WARD, The London Spy, pt. XVI., 383. [BOGLANDER is the name applied to an Irishman in this work.]
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. BOG LANDER, an Irishman, Ireland being famous for its large bogs, which furnish the chief fuel in many parts of that kingdom.
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum. [The same definition given as in GROSE.]
