scuttle-butt

名词 n. 动词 v.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative form of scuttlebutt. alt-of,alternative
    — [S]o they continue to fire as directed, until they are either sent down to the cock-pit themselves, or have a momentary respite from their exertions, when, choaked with smoke and gunpowder, they go aft to the scuttle-butt, to remove their parching thirst.
动词 v.
  1. Alternative form of scuttlebutt. alt-of,alternative
    — During the fighting for Manila, it was scuttle-butted among the troops that they must never put pin-up pictures on the walls of the Manila Hotel because Mrs. [Douglas] MacArthur owned fifty per cent of the property and Brigadier General Courtney Whitney, of MacArthur's staff, owned the other half.

词形变化

scuttle-butts plural scuttle-butts present,singular,third-person scuttle-butting participle,present scuttle-butted participle,past scuttle-butted past
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