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"text": "[T]he scuttle-butts are on the starboard side of the galley. You will find a bottle on one of them that will serve as a dipper. Drink moderately, for your life's sake, and get a pannikin from the galley and bring it aft, filled.",
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"ref": "1936 October, “Eight Tankers Equipped with Modern Facilities for Food Preservation”, in Refrigerating Engineering: Economic Application of Air Conditioning and Refrigeration, volume 32, number 4, New York, N.Y.: American Society of Refrigerating Engineers, →OCLC, page 285, column 1",
"text": "When the eight new tankers of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey start on their coastwise service, their crews will be assured of the proper preservation of their perishable foods. Carrier refrigerating systems will provide for the 1220 ft.³ refrigerator, chill room of 890 ft.³, and the scuttle butt with storage capacity of 40 gal. of drinking water.",
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"ref": "1986, John Wheatcroft, Slow Exposures, Cranbury, N.J., London: Cornwall Books, page 114",
"text": "Leaning over the scuttlebutt one afternoon, Bond suddenly realized he'd been gulping water for maybe a minute. […] The rest of the afternoon, all that night, and all the next day, his thirst was unquenchable. […] During the night he woke many times, his throat parched and burning, to crawl out of his sack and rush to the scuttlebutt for water.",
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"ref": "1991, Paul Stillwell, “The Tranquil Twenties: August 1921 – May 1929”, in Battleship Arizona: An Illustrated History, Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, page 79, column 1",
"text": "During 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.",
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"ref": "2007, Joseph A[dam] Springer, Inferno: The Epic Life and Death Struggle of the USS Franklin in World War II, St. Paul, Minn.: Zenith Press, page 218",
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"ref": "1978 April, Lloyd Norman, “The Military Chiefs and Defense Policy: Is Anyone Listening?”, in L. James Binder, editor, Army, volume 28, number 4, Arlington, Va.: Association of the United States Army, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 1",
"text": "The Pentagon rumor factory hasn't been very busy lately, but some reports are being scuttlebutted about that the U.S. military chiefs are being downgraded in the pecking order and that their military advice has been bypassed or ignored by the Carter Administration.",
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"ref": "1998 September 2, Dennis Reynolds, “Statement of Dennis Reynolds, Grant County Judge, Grant County, Or”, in Removing Roadblocks to Responsible Forest Management: Hearing before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session […] (Serial No. 105-64), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 23",
"text": "[B]ased on information coming back to the community after the initial review at the regional level, a concern that there was someone or some entity at the regional office that—who had a purposeful intent of scuttlebutting the Summit sale.",
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"ref": "2003, Bridget Connelly, “On the Trail of the Thousand Dollar Bride”, in Forgetting Ireland, St. Paul, Minn.: Borealis Books, Minnesota Historical Society Press, part 1 (Oblivion), page 51",
"text": "Despite my sister's story, I am pretty sure they would have dismissed the bride story as so much malarkey scuttlebutted about by the town \"talkers.\"",
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"ref": "2007, Richard Gartner, The Angel Jon, Mustang, Okla.: Tate Publishing & Enterprises, page 172",
"text": "Baloth growled angrily, balefully glaring at the perked ears of the nosy shoe shining demon, who knew he would be scuttle butting this entire conversation as soon as he got done with his chore.",
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"ref": "1946, John LaCerda, “Whitecaps on the Moat”, in The Conqueror Comes to Tea: Japan under MacArthur, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, →OCLC, pages 97–98",
"text": "During the fighting for Manila, it was scuttle-butted among the troops that they must never put pin-up pictures on the walls of the Manila Hotel because Mrs. [Douglas] MacArthur owned fifty per cent of the property and Brigadier General Courtney Whitney, of MacArthur's staff, owned the other half.",
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"ref": "1952 June, James A. Young, Jr., “Letters”, in Arthur L. Schoeni, editor, Naval Aviation News, Washington, D.C.: Chief of Naval Operations and Bureau of Aeronautics, →OCLC, page 32, column 1",
"text": "Could that picture (of the water skiier taking a spill in the April issue) possibly be the latest development in the \"one man helicopter\" which is currently scuttlebutting around the aviation underground?",
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"ref": "1967 March 2, Alton Lennon, committee member, “Statement of Adm. David L. McDonald, Chief of Naval Operations”, in Hearings on Military Posture and a Bill (H.R. 9240) to Authorize Appropriations during the Fiscal Year 1968 […] before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, First Session […] (Serial No. 8), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 626",
"text": "Isn't it scuttlebutted and kicked around that if Litton is successful that it will use its yard down at Pascagula, Miss.? Isn't that generally understood between you two gentlemen?",
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"ref": "1984 July 21, “Inside Track”, in Adam White, editor, Billboard: The International Newsweekly of Music & Home Entertainment, volume 96, number 28, New York, N.Y.: Billboard Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 72, column 4",
"text": "Prodigal Son: Steve Wax, who rose meteorically from local promotion to top national posts with Bell and Elektra/Asylum, scuttlebutted as readying a return to the record arena.",
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"ref": "1986, Robert Ludlum, chapter 17, in The Bourne Supremacy, New York, N.Y.: Random House, page 236",
"text": "We've all been scuttlebutting about him. He hasn't come to the consulate, hasn't even called our head honcho, who wants to get his picture in the papers with him.",
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"text": "During the fighting for Manila, it was scuttle-butted among the troops that they must never put pin-up pictures on the walls of the Manila Hotel because Mrs. [Douglas] MacArthur owned fifty per cent of the property and Brigadier General Courtney Whitney, of MacArthur's staff, owned the other half.",
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"ref": "1967 March 2, Alton Lennon, committee member, “Statement of Adm. David L. McDonald, Chief of Naval Operations”, in Hearings on Military Posture and a Bill (H.R. 9240) to Authorize Appropriations during the Fiscal Year 1968 […] before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, First Session […] (Serial No. 8), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 626",
"text": "Isn't it scuttlebutted and kicked around that if Litton is successful that it will use its yard down at Pascagula, Miss.? Isn't that generally understood between you two gentlemen?",
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"ref": "1984 July 21, “Inside Track”, in Adam White, editor, Billboard: The International Newsweekly of Music & Home Entertainment, volume 96, number 28, New York, N.Y.: Billboard Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 72, column 4",
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"ref": "1986, Robert Ludlum, chapter 17, in The Bourne Supremacy, New York, N.Y.: Random House, page 236",
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"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-scuttlebutt.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f6/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-scuttlebutt.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-scuttlebutt.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f6/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-scuttlebutt.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-scuttlebutt.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "scuttle-butt"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(transitive, slang) to spread (information) by way of gossip or rumour",
"word": "levittää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(transitive, slang) to spread (information) by way of gossip or rumour",
"word": "huhuta"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(intransitive, slang) to spread rumours",
"word": "levittää juoruja"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"United States Navy"
],
"word": "scuttlebutt"
}
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