drover
English
Alternative forms
- drovier (archaic)
Etymology
drove + -er
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɹəʊ.və/
- (General American) IPA(key): /dɹoʊ.vəɹ/
- Rhymes: -əʊvə(ɹ)
Noun
drover (plural drovers)
- A person who drives animals, especially cattle or sheep, over long distances.
- 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:
- Why, that's spoken like an honest drovier: so they sell bullocks.
- 1893, W. S. Gilbert, Utopia, Limited, Act 1
- Daily driven / (Wife as drover) / Ill you've thriven-- / Ne'er in clover.
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Translations
person who drives animals
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