单词 | plum-puddinger |
释义 | plum-puddingern. 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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