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单词 plum-puddinger
释义

plum-puddingern.

Brit. /ˌplʌm ˈpʊdɪŋə/, U.S. /ˈpləm ˈpʊdɪŋər/
Forms: 1800s plum-puddinger, 1800s plum-pudd'ner, 1900s– plum-pud'ner.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: plum pudding n. and adj., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < plum pudding n. and adj. + -er suffix1, after plum-pudding voyage n. at plum pudding n. and adj. Compounds 2.
Nautical slang. Now rare and historical.
A whaling ship employed in short voyages; (also) a member of the crew of such a ship. Cf. plum-pudding voyage n. at plum pudding n. and adj. Compounds 2.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > whaling vessel
Greenlandman1659
whale-boat1682
whalefisherman1724
whaleman1767
whaler1806
spouter1815
whale-ship1820
catcher1829
sperm-whaler1834
blubber-boiler1851
plum-puddinger1851
five-boater1887
bay whaler1905
society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > sailors on specific types of fishing boats
doggermana1500
dogger1533
plum-puddinger1851
oyster boatman1859
smacksman1883
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xvii. 95 After listening to these plum-puddingers till nearly eleven o'clock, I went up stairs to go to bed.
1868 Flag of Our Union 27 June 414/2 ‘What ship was he in?’.. ‘In that plum pudd'ner that got in last week.’
1874 C. M. Scammon Marine Mammals N. Amer. ii. iv. 241 Provincetown has ever been foremost with her numerous fleet of plum-puddingers,..which are small vessels employed on short voyages in the Atlantic Ocean.
1934 F. R. Dulles Lowered Boats iv. 45 Only the little ‘plum-pud'ners’ of Rhode Island remained wholly true to the Greenland whale.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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