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

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.

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

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"A—a lime-juicer?" repeated Alice in some surprise.

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On the Lord Summerville was a mad Pennsylvania boy who had, like myself, gone to sea for the first time ... but he had had no uncle to beat timidity into him ... and he had dared ship as able seaman on the big sky-sailed lime-juicer, and had gloriously acquitted himself.

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

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