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Scuttlebutt   /skˈətəlbˌət/   Listen
noun
scuttlebutt  n.  
1.
See scuttle butt.
2.
A drinking fountain on board a ship or at a naval station.
3.
The latest gossip; rumors.





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"Scuttlebutt" Quotes from Famous Books



... I don't give a hoot in a scuttlebutt if you do turn me over to the police," pursued the man. "I'm going to be taken care of. So will you! You'll be tied up! Courts like to have chief witnesses attend ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day
... night the six men stuck to their savage toil, the blood from their blistered hands reddening the shafts of the shovels. Every now and again one or another of them, choked with the dust, went to get a draft of lukewarm water from the scuttlebutt. But no one stayed over long on these excursions. The breeze had blown up into a gale. The night overhead-was starless and moonless, but every minute the black heaven was split by spurts of lightning, which showed the laboring, dishevelled ship ...
— A Master of Fortune • Cutcliffe Hyne
... out. Foggy; can't see two lengths; two of us on the lookout—Ham is under the scuttlebutt, drunk; whiskey lower; slight connection here, maybe—Women are quarreling among themselves; they're a heap of trouble; never quiet till they're seasick; found out they get seasick in a head sea; will remember this—The lion got out last night and made a lunch out of my ...
— The Grain Ship • Morgan Robertson


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