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Crusoe2|ˈkruːsəʊ|
One who is shipwrecked on a desert island, like the hero of Defoe's book. Also attrib. and Comb., as Crusoe life, Crusoe-like adj. and adv. Hence ˈCrusoeing, living like Crusoe.
1888R. L. Stevenson in Scribner's Mag. Feb. 252/1 And then you might go Crusoeing, a word that covers all extempore eating in the open air. 1907Daily Chron. 3 July 5/5 There he had built himself a habitation, Crusoe-like, out of brushwood. 1908Ibid. 16 July 1/5 Blades of penknives were fashioned into needles, hair-combs were made from bush thorns, and altogether the men led a regular Crusoe life. 1926Chambers's Jrnl. 104/1 No other island..has accommodated more Crusoes during the last three centuries than Chatham Island. Ibid., There is another and fell aspect of Crusoeing, however—an aspect which most fiction-writers carefully ignore. |