| 单词 | paddy's hurricane |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPaddy's hurricane Paddy's hurricane n. Nautical slang (now historical) a flat calm. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > complete absence of wind calmness1516 calm1517 malace1623 clock-calm1777 Irishman's hurricane1803 Paddy's hurricane1819 airlessness1831 Irish hurricanea1835 windlessness1916 1819 A. Welby Jrnl. 10 May in Visit to N. Amer. (1821) 6 We are now first experiencing a calm attended by a heavy swell of the sea:—the sailors call this ‘Paddy's Hurricane’. 1856 Ballou's Dollar Monthly Mag. Oct. 321 What little air there was stirring being like paddy's hurricane, right up and down. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 514 Paddy's hurricane, not wind enough to float the pennant. 1903 A. Sonnichsen Deep Sea Vagabonds vii. 114 The winds here never blew at all, or, after the manner of Paddy's hurricane, up and down. 1958 J. G. R. Bisset Sail Ho! v. 48 A dead calm was known as ‘Paddy's hurricane’. < as lemmas |
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