| 单词 | poop-ornament |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspoop-ornament poop-ornament n. Nautical slang (now rare) a ship's apprentice. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > young or inexperienced sailor > apprentice brass-bounder1890 poop-ornament1902 1874 Times 8 Dec. 7/2 Ships' boats have a nasty trick of leaking when they have acted only as poop ornaments for many months.] 1902 Athenæum 8 Feb. 177/1 He [sc. the apprentice in the merchant service] was and is emphatically the ship's loblolly-boy..miscalled ‘a blarsted poop ornament’, the drudge even of ordinary seamen. 1934 J. Masefield Taking of Gry 75 I looked at these fellows, and concluded that the lieutenant was a young poop-ornament and that the men were slacking. < as lemmas |
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