lime-juicer

American  

[lahym-joo-ser] / ˈlaɪmˌdʒu sər /

noun

Older Slang: Usually Disparaging and Offensive.

1. a British sailor.

2. a British person.

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Sensitive Note

See limey.

Etymology

Origin of lime-juicer

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

Example Sentences

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

From The Mutiny of the Elsinore by London, Jack

"I saw it done when I was second mate on a lime-juicer," Captain Ward spoke up.

From A Son Of The Sun by London, Jack

Petrak, Buckrow, and the long lime-juicer was all pretty thick when no one was lookin' at 'em.

From The Devil's Admiral by Moore, Frederick Ferdinand

But the instrument, down on his luck and 'fore-the-mast in a "lime-juicer," must needs refer to it, again and again, until the sorely tried man gave way.

From The Boy Scouts Book of Stories by Louderback, Walt

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

From The Road by London, Jack