beachcomber

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈbit͡ʃˌkoʊmɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A seaman who is not prepared to work but hangs around port areas living off the charity of others.
    — The society of beach-combers always repays the small pains you need be at to enjoy it. They are easy of approach and affable in conversation.
  2. Any loafer around a waterfront.
  3. A person who collects marine salvage at the coast.
    — Now and again a wreck was to be seen, or a vessel left lonely and sad on a reef, her rigging dismantled and only waiting for beachcombers to come and break her up for the sake of her timber and old iron.
  4. A long rolling wave of the sea.

词形变化

beachcombers plural beach-comber alternative

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.
Proto-Germanic *bakiz
Proto-West Germanic *baki
Old English bæċ
Middle English bache
English beach
English comber
English beachcomber
From beach + comber.
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