Irish tramps: so called from their skill in crossing the Irish bogs, from tussock to tussock, either as guides or to escape pursuit.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.