| 单词 | pilot officer prune |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPilot Officer (also P.O.) Prune b. Air Force slang. Originally and chiefly as Pilot Officer (also P.O.) Prune. (The name of) a character in a series of Air Force information cartoons during the Second World War (1939–45); (hence) an incompetent or negligent pilot. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > confused, muddled person > [noun] mafflardc1450 juffler15.. dromedary1567 madbrain1570 batie buma1586 addle-head1592 blunderkin1596 nit1598 addle-pate1601 hash1655 blunderbuss1692 blunderhead1692 shaffles1703 fog-pate1732 blunderer1741 puzzle-pate1761 slouch1767 étourdi1768 botch1769 puddle1782 bumble1789 scatter-brain1790 addle-brain1799 puzzle-head1815 shaffler1828 chowderhead1833 muddlehead1833 muddler1833 flounderer1836 duffer1842 muddle-pate1844 plug1848 incompetent1866 schlemiel1868 dinlo1873 drumble-dore1881 hodmandod1881 dub1887 prune1895 foozler1896 bollock1916 messer1926 Pilot Officer (also P.O.) Prune1942 spaz1965 spastic1981 1942 Tee Emm (Air Ministry) 2 67 All because the Prunes of the Air Force will ignore the existence of A.A. Danger Areas. 1942 T. Rattigan Flare Path i. 30 They call me P.O. Prune—he's a character in The Training Manual—sort of crazy, good-tempered, half-witted sort of bloke..and I—well, I kind of act P.O. Prune for them. 1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 49 Prune, Pilot Officer, a fictitious character who behaves as every officer should not, created by Squadron Leader Anthony Armstrong and the artist RAFF (L. A. C. W. Hooper)... Prune was created to teach pupils and other flying personnel how things should not be done. 1988 Times (Nexis) 6 Nov. I'm sorry, too, I said the pilots in it were all Prunes. Pilot Officer Prune, the brilliant but fictitious creation of the RAF training manual, who showed all young pilots how not to do it, may have been a crumb. But he was not a creep. 2005 Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 26 Oct. 10 The RAF had its share of PO Prunes but the fellow in trouble would make it clear and the fire engine..would be at hand. < as lemmas |
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