Jolly Roger

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌdʒɒli ˈɹɒdʒə/    美 /ˌdʒɑli ˈɹɑdʒɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The traditional flag used on European and American pirate ships, and, more recently, by submarine crews, often pictured as a white skull and crossbones on a black field; the blackjack.
    — A Day or two after they parted, [Francis] Spriggs was choſe Captain by the reſt, and a black Enſign was made, which they called Jolly Roger, with the ſame Device that Captain [Edward] Low carried, viz. a white Skeliton in the Middle of it, with a Dart in one Hand ſtriking a bleeding Heart, and in the other, an Hour Glaſs; when this was finiſhed and hoiſted, they fired all their Guns to ſalute their Captain and themſelves, and then looked out for Prey.

词形变化

Jolly Rogers plural

词源

Possibly from jolly + Roger (“dialectal nickname for the Devil”).
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