lime-juicer

[ lahym-joo-ser ]

nounOlder Slang: Usually Disparaging and Offensive.
  1. a British sailor.

  2. a British person.

Origin of lime-juicer

1
First recorded in 1855–60; so called because British sailors were required by law to drink lime juice to ward off scurvy

usage note For lime-juicer

See limey.

Words Nearby lime-juicer

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How to use lime-juicer in a sentence

  • These were rather numerous (as Nares contemptuously put it) “for a lime-juicer.”

  • He had sailed always on French merchant vessels, with the one exception of a voyage on a "lime-juicer."

    The Road | Jack London
  • At noon we picked up a ship ahead, a lime-juicer, travelling in the same direction, under lower-topsails and one upper-topsail.

  • And we were near him, on the poop, when he drove by an east-bound lime-juicer, hove-to under upper-topsails.

  • These were rather numerous (as Nares contemptuously put it) "for a lime-juicer."

    The Wrecker | Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne