sandhog

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈsændhɒɡ/    美 /ˈsændhɔɡ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person employed to dig tunnels, or (more generally) to work underground or under water. US,also,figuratively,slang
    — Sandhogs working behind a hydraulic shield excavated the riverbed silt inch by inch and installed linking sections of cast-iron tubes as they went. The digging chamber was filled with compressed air pumped in from the surface. The work was dangerous. The men who did the work, the sandhogs, were considered heroes.
动词 v.
  1. To work at digging tunnels, or (more generally) underground or under water. US,intransitive,slang

词形变化

sandhogs plural sand hog alternative sand-hog alternative sandhogs present,singular,third-person sandhogging participle,present sandhogged participle,past sandhogged past

词源

词源 1
From sand + hog, perhaps alluding to a hog (“animal of the Suidae family, especially a boar, pig, or warthog”) digging in sand.
词源 2
From sand + hog, perhaps alluding to a hog (“animal of the Suidae family, especially a boar, pig, or warthog”) digging in sand.
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