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double-buggy

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: N/A

buggy with two seats; also called “the express”

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: And there used to be a top up on them like to keep the sun off you. We call that a carriage here. And ah then they had a ah just a buggy with- like an open buggy. They call that a- a- a- a- buggy too, or a double buggy. Yeah like there was a seat in seat in the back and seat in the front. You could make a buggy out of it if you wanted, but there just to- you could go to town take it just to town or-anything-like-that.
buggy with two seats; also called “the express”
ExampleMeaning
No. We, ah, had a nice supper up there, and a neighbour man brought us double buggy, and, ah, my brothers, well they had a buggy load of their own, do-you-see. Ah, and they all come to the, ah, station and brought us at about twelve-o'-clock at night. And we got on the train there, and we went up to, ah, Goodland.
buggy with two seats; also called “the express”
ExampleMeaning
Then we had the ah, wagon. I guess that's just the buggy and the wagon. We had a couple of buggies, we got another one from a sale or something and we had it. Interviewer: Um, a buggy that had more than one seat would have a special name, would it? Speaker: Double buggy. Interviewer: Oh yes? Speaker: Sometimes they'd call them the express, I don't know whether that was maybe just a local way of saying it. But double buggy was usually two seats.
buggy with two seats; also called “the express”