单词 | airgonaut |
释义 | † airgonautn. humorous. Obsolete. A person who travels through the air by means of a hot-air balloon. Cf. airgonation n.Apparently only in the writings of Horace Walpole. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > people who fly in aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > balloonist ballooner1783 aeronaut1784 airgonaut1784 balloonist1784 aerostat1788 air-balloonist1791 voyager1826 air sailor1834 balloon driver1838 balloonatic1854 hot-air balloonist1887 1784 H. Walpole Let. 15 Oct. in Corr. (1837) III. 354 You know how little I have attended to these airgonauts. 1785 H. Walpole Let. 13 May (1858) VIII. 552 It had set out privately from Mousley, in my neighbourhood, and went higher than any airgonaut had yet reached. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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