Thursday, 17 February 2011

• I wish I had some seadogs in my classes.

  A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg = seadog

  PRONUNCIATION:

  (SEE-dog) 

  MEANING:

  noun:
  1. A veteran sailor.
  2. A harbor seal.
  3. A pirate or privateer.
  4. A faint rainbow-like formation seen in foggy conditions. Also called mistbow, fogbow, and white rainbow.
  
  

  ETYMOLOGY:

  From sea + dog, from use of the word dog as a playful term to refer to someone, as in old dog. Earliest documented use: 1598.

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