English Dictionary

swag

IPA（発音記号）

/swæɡ/

動詞

オーストラリア英語 自動詞 他動詞

(Australia, transitive, intransitive) To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket). / To transport stolen goods.

日本語の意味

（オーストラリア英語）毛布にくるまった所持品（スワッグ）を持って徒歩で旅をすること / 盗品を運搬すること

After the cattle drive ended, the young drover decided to swag to the next town with only the blanket on his back and a billy for company.

牛の追い立てが終わると、若いドローバーは毛布に包んだ荷物を背負って徒歩で次の町へ向かうことにし、相棒はやかん一つだけだった。

意味（1）

(Australia, transitive, intransitive) To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket).

He told me that times had been bad at Invercargill, and that he had started for fresh pastures, had worked his passage up as mate in a small craft from the south, and, arriving in Port Underwood, had swagged his calico tent over the hill, and was now living in it, pitched in the manuka scrub.

意味（2）

To transport stolen goods.

Well, one night we were rather hard up and we wanted a good feed, so five or six of us set out, along with a great stout fellow, and we actually stole a whole sheep that was hanging at a butcher's door, and the big chap swagged it home.

swags （ present singular third-person ）

swagging （ participle present ）

swagged （ participle past ）

swagged （ past ）