roustabout
英 ['raʊstəbaʊt]
美['raʊstəbaʊt]
- n. （美）码头工人；甲板水手；马戏场杂工；非技术工
词态变化
复数: roustabouts;
中文词源
roustabout 杂工，非技术工
roust,唤醒，about,到处。比喻用法。
英文词源
- 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).