scuttlebutt
noun · verbB2Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable)(countable, nautical) Originally (now chiefly historical), a cask with a hole cut into its top, used to provide drinking water on board a ship; now (by extension, informal), a drinking fountain on a modern ship.
Đồng nghĩa: scuttle-cask
- 2.
(slang, uncountable)(uncountable, originally US, nautical slang) Gossip, idle chatter; also, rumour.
Đồng nghĩa: furphy, babble, bavardage, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blabbing, blather, blathering, chatter, chinwag, chit-chat, claver, clepe, gabble, hot air, mardle, natter, palaver, prate, prattle, scuttlebutt, small talk, tattle, twaddle, waffle, yackety-yak, yap, yatter, clatfart, goss, gossip, gossipry, labrish, scuttlebutt, skeet, tale, tattle, tidbit, tittle-tattle, twittle-twattle
Động từ
verb- 1.
(rare, slang, transitive)To spread (information) by way of gossip or rumour.
- 2.
(intransitive, slang)To chat idly or gossip; also, to spread rumours.
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thumb|The modern scuttlebutt (drinking) of USS Olympia (C-6). This ship#Noun|ship was the first United States Navy vessel fitted with a chilled [[drinking water dispenser.]]