English Dictionary

swagman

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈswæɡmæn/

名詞

オーストラリア英語 ニュージーランド英語 歴史的 イギリス英語 古語 アメリカ英語 俗語

(Australia, New Zealand, historical) A man who travels around with a swag (“bundle of personal items”); specifically, an itinerant person, often seeking work in exchange for food and lodging.

日本語の意味

（オーストラリア・ニュージーランドの歴史的文脈で）まとまった荷物を持ち歩きながら移動し、しばしば労働の見返りとして食事や宿泊を得る放浪の男、または旅人

The swagman sat by the campfire, humming as he mended his boots.

スワッグ（持ち物を包んだ束）を持って各地を渡り歩く男は、焚き火のそばに座り、ブーツを繕いながら鼻歌を歌っていた。

意味（1）

(Australia, New Zealand, historical) A man who travels around with a swag (“bundle of personal items”); specifically, an itinerant person, often seeking work in exchange for food and lodging.

And then the swagman was such a companionable little fellow, and told such funny little yarns, and sung so many snatches of odd songs whilst he was at work that once or twice the old man relaxed the cross expression of his facial muscles, and allowed himself to be betrayed into a grim smile, and at last suffered himself to be drawn into conversation, although his answers were short and snappish.

意味（2）

(Britain, archaic) A person who sells or trades in trinkets or items of low value.

The practice of selling by commission, the same as I have shown to prevail among the costers, exists among the miscellaneous dealers of whom I am treating, who are known among street-folk as swag-barrowmen, or, in the popular ellipsis, penny swags; the word swag meaning, as I before showed, a collection—a lot. The swag-men are often confounded with the lot-sellers; …

意味（3）

(US, slang) A middleman who buys and sells stolen goods; a fence.

He is, in the street talk, a swagman, one of perhaps hundreds of hustlers in the city who distribute an estimated $5-million worth of goods ripped off each year at New York's airports, waterfronts, factories and truck parts. … According to Tommy, the mob uses swagmen like himself as down-the-line distributors for these large jobs.

swagmen （ plural ）