Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Sailor; also "mate;" boon companion.
Etymologies
- From the French. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I navigator and you matelot, merely share this passage, this berth, this bunk bed, with me on top.”
“Confused but good points above. on January 19, 2008 at 2: 37 pm | Reply Guzz matelot”
“And … again as stated earlier …. the squaddie/matelot/brylcream boy would have sorted the gobby person out.”
“Being an ex matelot myself, I would not have done anything different and gone along with whatever the Iranians told me to do for the benefit of the camera.”
“Interesting, I personally object to the teacher being lashed, but is our house in order? on November 27, 2007 at 8: 47 pm | Reply Guzz matelot”
“French glossary: coucher = to lie down matelas = mattress matelot = sailor vouloir = to want”
“An American woman goes into a department store in France and says, "Je voudrai un matelot.”
“Close up, she was ten years too old even for Gaius, and probably married to a slobbish matelot who beat her.”
“He is dressed as an old-fashioned matelot, with a blue-and-white striped sweater, tight bell bottom trousers, and a white neckerchief.”
“Boudancourt was yelling similar instructions to his own people; among them, the m'decin-major and a matelot were helping Elspeth down to the nearest boat.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘matelot’.
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End in -ot
Just what it says. Words that end in -ot.
wainscot, ascot, marmot, jot, ocelot, spot, blot, scot, lot, shot, dot, snot and 219 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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Literarie: Mussolini: My Part In His ...
Bits from the predictably odd and chaotic Spike Milligan book of this title. He writes in diary-style about his service in the British Army's World War II campaign in Italy.
"I admit the way...b4, matelot, asleep, landing, fags, spam, ash wednesday, derv, nebelwurfer, the shits, hole in the ground, cookhouse and 79 more...
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encountered while fact-checking and c...
great words come across doing freelance fact-checking and copyediting work.
megabat, chiroptera, bathyscaphe, serac, icefall, lamellae, haltere, homologate, gallinaceous, gorgonin, peloton, patinodrome and 59 more...
Tweets
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bilby "A merry matelot approaches with a Huge Brown Kettle.
'You lads like some cocoa?'
We galloped at the speed of light to our big packs and returned to meet the merry matelot as he descended from the Bridge. He pours out the thick brown remaining sludge. The gulls in our wake scream as they dive bomb the morning garbage. We sip the cocoa, holding the mug with both hands to warm them. A change from holding the mug to warm the Naafi tea."
- Spike Milligan, 'Mussolini: My Part In His Downfall.' Apr 18, 2009
chained_bear Merriam-Webster Online has some interesting things to say about this word:
Pronunciation: \ˈmat-ˌl�?, ˈma-tə-\
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from Middle French, from Middle Dutch mattenoot, literally, bedmate
Date: circa 1847
British: sailor
I wonder if this is like tiemate--sailors who were buddies who'd braid (plait) each other's pigtails. It was just the seemingly unrelated reference to "sailor" that made me think of it.
Mar 22, 2008