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flotsam [ˈflɒtsəm] n 2. useless or discarded objects; odds and ends (esp in the phrase flotsam and jetsam) 3. vagrants [from Anglo-French floteson, from floter to float] flotsam material floating on the sea, especially debris or goods from ship-wrecks. Cf. jetsam. See also: ShipsFlotsam parts of wreckage of a ship or cargo found floating on the sea, 1607; of odds and ends, 1861. See also jetsam. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
flotsam Translations flotsam [ˈflɒtsəm] n (= floating rubbish) → déchets mpl flottants, déchets mpl à la dérive flotsam and jetsam (= floating rubbish) → déchets mpl flottants (= odds and ends) → objets mpl hétéroclites, déchets mpl flotsam n → Treibgut nt; he was another of the city’s flotsam → er gehörte auch zu den Gestrandeten der Stadt; flotsam and jetsam (floating) → Treibgut nt; (washed ashore) → Strandgut nt; the flotsam and jetsam of our society → die Gestrandeten pl → or das Strandgut unserer Gesellschaft Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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cast up collapse conversation flotage garbage jetsam jetsom junk lagan Physical Appearance reject rubbish ships wreckage | And clear across to the Atlantic, the Junta in touch with them all and all of them needing guns, mere adventurers, soldiers of fortune, bandits, disgruntled American union men, socialists, anarchists, rough-necks, Mexican exiles, peons escaped from bondage, whipped miners from the bull-pens of Coeur d'Alene and Colorado who desired only the more vindictively to fight--all the flotsam and jetsam of wild spirits from the madly complicated modern world. I found some of it hard to endure, though I am a mild-tempered man; but, certainly, when I told the captain to "shut up" I had forgotten that I was merely a bit of human flotsam, cut off from my resources and with my fare unpaid; a mere casual dependant on the bounty, or speculative enterprise, of the ship. Financiers and promoters, and all the flotsam and jetsam of the sea of speculation surged upon the shores of his eleven millions. |
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