單詞
roustabout
英 ['ra?st?ba?t]
美['ra?st?ba?t]
基本信息
- n. （美）碼頭工人；甲板水手；馬戲場雜工；非技術工
詞態變化
復數:?roustabouts;
中文詞源
roustabout 雜工，非技術工
roust,喚醒，about,到處。比喻用法。
英文詞源
- roustabout (n.)
- "deck hand, wharf worker," 1868, perhaps from roust + about. But another theory connects it to British dialect rousing "rough, shaggy," a word associated perhaps with rooster. With extended senses in U.S., including "circus hand" (1931); "manual laborer on an oil rig" (1948).
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