sea donkey

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The common name for various fish, especially the hake or the spadefish.
    — The ectoparasitic isopod, Nerocila armata Dana, so common on the head of small Sea Donkey (Chaetodipterus faber) was also sometimes attached to Sea Trout fins or head.
  2. Someone or something that lives or works at sea and is similar in some way to a donkey, especially by performing humble tasks.
    — There was an odd look of confusion aloft, or rather let me describe it as a want of that sort of precision which a sailor's eye would seek for and instantly miss, even in the commonest old sea-donkey of a collier.
  3. A term of opprobrium.
    — You've more brass than a highwayman, you fat-headed sea-donkey!

词形变化

sea donkeys plural
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