scrubber
名词 n.
英 /ˈskɹʌbə/
美 /ˈskɹʌbɚ/|/ˈskɹɐbə/
英文释义
名词 n.
- A person or appliance that cleans floors or similar by scrubbing.
- A soft and flexible handheld polymer-fiber implement for scrubbing tasks.
- A device that removes impurities from gases.
- A machine for washing leather after the tanpit.
- An animal (especially cattle) that has broken away from the herd and established itself in the bush.
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Someone who lives in the bush; a wild person, someone only partly assimilated into society.
— ‘He was a real scrubber that old feller,’ he confided gleefully. ‘No one never got a tag on him before this.’
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A prostitute or a slovenly woman.
— What did you think, it was happy ever after with a Woodlands Road scrubber in a seaside resort?
- A dirty or unhygienic person.
- A horizontal bar allowing the user to set the playback position.
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English scrub
English -er
English scrubber
From scrub + -er.
English scrub
English -er
English scrubber
From scrub + -er.
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