roustabout
英式音标:roustabout怎么读
美式音标:roustabout怎么读
roustabout词义
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n. (美)码头工人;甲板水手;马戏场杂工;非技术工
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复数: roustabouts;
中文词源
roustabout 杂工,非技术工
roust,唤醒,about,到处。比喻用法。
roustabout英文词源
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- 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).