slovo | definícia |
sundowner (encz) | sundowner,tulák n: Zdeněk Brož |
Sundowner (gcide) | Sundowner \Sun"down`er\, n.
A tramp or vagabond in the Australian bush; -- so called from
his coming to sheep stations at sunset of ask for supper and
a bed, when it is too late to work; -- called also traveler
and swagman (but not all swagmen are sundowners).
Sundowners, -- men who loaf about till sunset, and then
come in with the demand for unrefusable rations.
--Francis
Adams.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
sundowner (wn) | sundowner
n 1: a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown
2: a drink taken at sundown |
| podobné slovo | definícia |
Sundowner (gcide) | Sundowner \Sun"down`er\, n.
A tramp or vagabond in the Australian bush; -- so called from
his coming to sheep stations at sunset of ask for supper and
a bed, when it is too late to work; -- called also traveler
and swagman (but not all swagmen are sundowners).
Sundowners, -- men who loaf about till sunset, and then
come in with the demand for unrefusable rations.
--Francis
Adams.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
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