doodlebugger

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A dowser searching for subterranean natural resources such as water or oil. slang
    — This was a "doodlebugger," a man who searches for oil with divining rods of wondrous shapes and descriptions. And not just any doodlebugger, but one of the hottest noses in the amateur oil-sniffing game – Walter J. Nelson.
  2. A geophysicist working in the field to explore oil or other natural resources. broadly,slang

词形变化

doodlebuggers plural

词源

Etymology tree
English doodlebug
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English doodlebugger
From doodlebug (“divining rod”) + -er.
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