buggy

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Those three days waiting for the buggy were about the longest I ever spent in my life.

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  1. noun A small, light, one-horse carriage usually having four wheels in the United States and two wheels in Great Britain.
  2. noun A baby carriage.
  3. noun A passenger or recreational vehicle, usually with oversized tires, designed for off-road use.

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  • In appearance it resembles a miniature buggy, and it holds one person, who can stretch his legs in a long, narrow trough between the seat and the splash-board; or, by straddling the trough, the occupant can rest his feet on two conveniently-placed iron steps. —  Peeps at Many Lands: Norway
  • For lying on a bit of hay in the bottom of the buggy was a white lamb no more than half as big as the lively black scamp that had got away from Johnnie the day before Johnnie Green didn't need to ask whose lamb this was. —  The Tale of Snowball Lamb
  • He come in a buggy, and he had this set with him Set o' what Why, set o' books. —  Country Neighbors
  • I may also mention that neither Eustace nor Lawson can do without a buggy, which is not a small expense I suppose the two articles you have mentioned of table expenses and servants include a number of other things; otherwise I cannot imagine how you can go to that expense. —  Life of William Carey
  • Hitched to the buggy was her own horse, which was tied to a post of the corral. —  The Wrong Woman
 

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chaise ·  sleigh ·  cab ·  waggon ·  cart ·  lorry ·  motorcycle ·  bicycle ·  carriage ·  gig ·  brougham ·  automobile

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buggy:   buggies
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. from bug + -y.
  2. Orig. Anglo-Indian, from Hindustani baggī, bagghī, a gig, a buggy, from Hindi bag, move.
  3. A variant of bogie, prob. in simulation of buggy.
 

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