Munro bagger
- noun
- Jargon
:
escalador de Munros
- After reaching Ben Nevis, he was finally able to call himself a Munro bagger.
Examples
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Many Munro baggers keep detailed logs of each peak they have conquered.
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The club organized a trip aimed at helping new members become Munro baggers.
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She is an avid Munro bagger.
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Many Munro baggers gather at the base of Ben Nevis.
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After reaching the summit of her last peak, she proudly became a Munro bagger.
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He joined a group of Munro baggers to climb all the mountains over 3,000 feet.
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The enthusiastic Munro bagger shared stories of her adventures on the most challenging hikes.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Munro + bagger
The compound is partly compositional: a learner who knows 'bagger' (agent from 'to bag' = to take/collect) and recognises 'Munro' as a named mountain group could infer it labels someone who 'collects' Munros (i.e. visits or climbs them). However, the precise mountaineering sense (climbing the specific Scottish Munros, often defined by the 3,000 ft criterion) is culturally specific jargon and not fully predictable from the parts alone, so it is only partly transparent.
Etymology
Munro bagger combines two ideas. Munros are the high Scottish mountains over 3,000 feet named after Sir Hugh Munro, and bagger comes from the idea of 'bagging' or collecting things. So a Munro bagger is 'a person who climbs many or all the Munros'.
