Bog warrior

n.

Heard in Cork, Galway and Dublin

A man from west Cork, typically from a farming background, who owns a digger or shovel and can be hired to cut drainage ditches in bogs or marshy ground.

In use

We need a Bog warrior to make land.

Posh English

We require a gentleman from west Cork with an excavator to improve that drainage.

Same phrase, other counties

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