| 单词 | oily wad |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoily wad oily wad n. Navy slang (a) a torpedo boat burning fuel oil (now historical); (b) a seaman without a special skill, or with no ambition. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > torpedo boat torpedo boat1810 torpedo-vessel1877 torpedo craft1885 torpedo destroyer1896 T.B.1897 mosquito boat1911 oily wad1925 MTB1936 PT boat1941 torpilleur1950 society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > inefficient, lazy, or unseamanlike sailor lubber1579 guinea pig1748 marine1829 soldier1840 lubbard1867 Paddy Wester1892 ullage1901 oily wad1925 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 213 Oily wads, a Navy nickname for a class of oil burning torpedo boat destroyers. 1929 F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 97 Oily Wads, the name occasionally applied to seamen in the Navy who do not specialise in anything, from the amount of time they have to spend cleaning brass-work with oily wads. 1931 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals (1932) 199 Some oily-wad of a Bulleana struck up about not having got his proper bird. 1961 F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 152 Oily wad, a seaman with no ambition. 1963 Times 13 June 17/1 His first command, which he held from May 1908, to January 1910, was torpedo boat no. 14 in the Home Fleet, one of the first oil-burning ships in the Navy, known to those serving in them as ‘oily wads’. < as lemmas |
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