释义 |
flot·sam \ˈflätsəm sometimes -lōt-\ noun (-s) Etymology: alteration of earlier flotsen, from Anglo-French floteson, from floter to float, from Old French — more at flotant 1. : wreckage of a ship or its cargo found floating on the sea — distinguished especially in legal usage from jetsam and lagan 2. : something floating or drifting about on or as if on the surface of a body of water: as a. : a floating population (as of useless, vagrant, or worthless people) < the skid row flotsam > b. : an accumulation of unimportant, miscellaneous, and often disordered trifles |