redandwhite February 15, 2023, 12:43pm 7. On old sailing vessels, the butt was a barrel of fresh water kept on deck and to scuttle a ship was to puncture the hull of the ship. Since their orders had come through, the “ scuttlebutt” among the excited and curious crew had been of little besides the fabled “White City”. Monterrey, Mexico seemed like an odd choice, but this list supports it. 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p.His resolve not to worry about unfounded scuttlebutt lasted about two minutes. 2003, Len Custer, Called to Serve: A Historical Novel of the Korean War, page 211,."You got some pet coolie down there you want to put in Chien's place." A fifth for Yale dropped them to third overall, while a 14th from Boston College landed. "That's the scuttlebutt," Bronson said defiantly. While Coast Guard ran away with the final race win, Georgetown finished in third place to secure the title. 1962, Richard McKenna, The Sand Pebbles, page 137,.( informal, uncountable ) Gossip, rumour, idle chatter.The word became applied to the conversations and gossips the sailors held around the barrels, and its the slang term for such talk to this day. elle est régulièrement classée parmi les quinze premières universités des États-Unis. Fondée en 1789 par l’ évêque John Carroll et sise à Washington, D.C. We all grabbed towels that belonged to whoever lived there, and we wet them down in the scuttlebutt and wrapped them around our faces to filter out as much smoke as possible. It came from the water barrels on the old sailing ships water barrels were known as butts and had holes cut in the tops or 'scuttled', hence 'scuttlebutt'. L’ université de Georgetown est une institution catholique denseignement supérieur dirigée par les jésuites. Springer, Inferno: The Epic Life and Death Struggle of the USS Franklin in World War II, page 218, 1991, Paul Stillwell, Battleship Arizona: An Illustrated History, page 79,ĭuring the midwatch a radioman striker (that is, a seaman trying to advance to radioman third class) was taking a drink of water from the third-deck scuttlebutt.Leaning over the scuttlebutt one afternoon, Bond suddenly realized he'd been gulping water for maybe a minute. 1986, John Wheatcroft, Slow Exposures, page 114,.( nautical, countable ) A keg of drinking water with a hole cut in it, on board ship.Since sailors exchanged gossip when they gathered at the scuttlebutt for a drink of water, scuttlebutt became Navy slang for gossip or rumours. Scuttlebutt ( countable and uncountable, plural scuttlebutts) Scuttlebutt in slang usage means rumor or gossip, deriving from the nautical term for the cask used to serve water (or, later, a water fountain). In sense of gossip, because sailors would gather around the scuttlebutt to drink and exchange gossip compare water cooler and furphy.
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