bargee
(bɑːˈdʒiː)
[f. barge n.1 + -ee. (The suffix is used irregularly.)]
A bargeman.
| 1666 Pepys Diary (1879) VI. 89 Spent the evening on the water, making sport with the Westerne bargees. 1831 Hone Year Bk. 672 A great sum is gained by the ‘bargees’ (bargemen, Eton phraseology). 1861 Hughes T. Brown Oxf. xxxiii, A man who sets up for a country gentleman with the tongue of a Thames bargee. 1873 G. C. Davies Mount. & Mere xviii. 155 The bargees, who navigate barges laden with fragant hay or corn up the stream. |