scuttlebutt 的定义
- Nautical. an open cask of drinking water.a drinking fountain for use by the crew of a vessel.
- Informal. rumor or gossip.
scuttlebutt 近义词
gossip
更多scuttlebutt例句
- We are not encouraged to go into the office, and current scuttlebutt is that we will never go back — or, at most, it would be two days a week.
- That brought a response from John Rutledge, who ran a Florida-based newsletter, The Scuttlebutt.
- Rutledge ran a story in The Scuttlebutt, and Patsy got a phone call from man saying he was her sailor.
- But amid all the celebrity scuttlebutt the paper never quite lost a flair for serious investigative journalism.
- "Just understand that I don't give a hoot in a scuttlebutt if you do turn me over to the police," pursued the man.
- I was about to lead him aft, but his eye caught sight of a scuttlebutt, and the tin-pot on its head.
- I got that from the scuttlebutt, one of the guys who knew him from overseas.
- Was there any scuttlebutt or rumor that he shot himself to get out of the service?
- But any matter, it was pure scuttlebutt; it was pure speculation?