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单词 jack nasty-face
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Jack Nasty-face
Jack Nasty-face n. slang (originally and chiefly Nautical). (a name for) a low-ranking sailor; (also occasionally in extended use) any person regarded as low or contemptible; cf. Jack Nasty n. Now rare (archaic and historical in later use).The name Jack Nastyface was used as a pseudonym by William Robinson, British sailor and writer (c1787–1836), in his memoir Naut. Econ. (1836).
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1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) (at cited word) Jack Nasty Face, a sea term, signifying a common sailor.
1833 Monthly Mag. & Brit. Reg. May 507 A low-lived ignorant menial, the dog-boy's first cousin, Jack Nasty-face, the whipper in.
1889 Chambers's Jrnl. 3 Aug. 496/1 His [sc. the ship's cook's] assistant enjoys, with no apparent reason, the name of ‘Jack Nasty-face’.
1945 N. R. Raine Capt. Kidd iii. 39 Has your mother turned honest woman, Jack Nasty-face?
1990 E. L. Rasor Brit. Naval Hist. since 1815 vi. 195 For the British Army it is ‘Tommy Atkins’.., and for the Royal Navy, ‘Jack Tar’, earlier ‘Jack Nastyface’.
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