| 单词 | sopwith pup |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSopwith pup 5. A nickname for: the Sopwith Scout, a small, fast aeroplane used in the First World War (1914–18). More fully Sopwith pup. The term pup was never officially recognized but became established because the plane looked like a smaller version of its larger predecessor the 1½ Strutter. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > with more than one wing either side > specific biplanes tabloid1913 longhorn1914 pup1917 pursuit biplane1920 1917 Jane's All World's Aircraft 103 b Sopwith Scout Tractor. Known as the ‘Pup’, and one of the fastest machines in the world... The ‘Sopwith Pup’ on active service has passed the 25,000 feet level with a Naval pilot. 1918 H. G. Wells Joan & Peter xiii. 613 They [sc. air force officers] made a language for themselves an atrocious slang of facetious misnomers,..the machines were ‘'buses’ and ‘camels’ and ‘pups’. 1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station xiii. 211 A single-seater machine, the Pup, which was also a product of the Sopwith Aviation Company, passed into the Service during this year [i.e. 1916]. 1977 J. Cleary High Road to China i. 20 Pups, Camels..even some Spads and Nieuports. 1993 P. Bryers Adultery Department (BNC) 41 He concentrated hard. He was in a Sopwith Pup, or was it a Camel? < as lemmas |
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