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单词 airgonaut
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airgonautn.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: aeronaut n.
Etymology: Humorous alteration of aeronaut n. after Argonaut n. and air n.1 Compare airgonation n.Apparently only in the works of Horace Walpole.
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.
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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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