Sorry, may someone please help me with this simply qüestion? What is the exact meaning of buggy? i don’'t manage to find an understandable answer from the regulars resourse availables here? Is a sort of a car?
Hola, Gerard, bienvenido a LingQ.
At the time of the story, a buggy was a vehicle pulled by a horse or horses.
Take a look at this: horse and buggy - LinuxMint Image Search Results
Nowadays a buggy could mean a kind of automobile, as here:
http://tinyurl.com/kkavqp6
Good luck with your language studies!
In the UK a buggy is also a name for a pushchair for children who have outgrown their pram (or as the nannies among us would have said once upon a time “a perambulator”).
Wow, “pushchair”? In Aus we call that a “stroller”.
I think pushchair is going the way the perambulator has strolled. Buggy is the most frequently used word, but what do I know? Well, I know that I used to push my daughter in a “Sportskarre” in Germany. That word now causes great hilarity among young mothers.
In the states nowadays I hear only “stroller.” Very rarely I will read ‘pram.’
But “baby buggy” does serve a higher purpose: for practicing your English pronunciation, try saying this tongue-twister over and over:
rubber baby buggy bumper
Hmm. I have to work on my pronunciation, I produced a number of strange words.