the.com/pushchair
A pram with trust issues: folds fast, steers worse, judges your parking.
means A collapsible wheeled chair for pushing a young child around, typically lighter and more upright than a full pram.
from Straightforward British compound word: 'push' plus 'chair', naming the thing exactly as you use it. It emerged as a plainer, foldable alternative to the heavier Victorian-style 'perambulator' (pram), with the term gaining ground in the UK through the 20th century as lighter, buggy-style designs became common — American English mostly calls the same object a 'stroller'.
- US term
- called a stroller there
- origin
- Victorian perambulators got too bulky
- design irony
- one-handed fold, two-handed reality
- weight limit
- usually caps around 15kg