loblolly boyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From loblolly in the sense of gruel made with seaworthy ingredients.

名詞

loblolly boy (plural loblolly boys)

1. (historical) In 18th- and 19th-century warships, a non-professional (male) assistant to the ship's surgeon.
   • 2023, David Grann, chapter 2, in The Wager, Doubleday, page 39:

     [T]he carpenter repairing masts and plugging dangerous leaks in the hull, the surgeon attending to the sick. (His helpers were known as loblolly boys, for the porridge they served.)