Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cook on board ship: used chiefly in opprobrium.
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Examples
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This second mate'd had his skull split by a crazy sea-cook.
CHAPTER XLII 2010
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His plea was insanity, from having had his head chopped open a long time before by a crazy sea-cook.
CHAPTER XXIV 2010
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No matter what occupation, sea-cook or stationary engineer, sand teamster or warehouseman, in every case there was an idle worker ready to do the work.
THE TRAMP 2010
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Just say 'Ddgging a new lock for the Panama Canal' or 'He said I looked like Boris Karloff' or 'I'm the son of a sea-cook' and I crack up.
Time to play. LuLu 2008
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Crabtree, who was a baccy chewing old son of a sea-cook.
Canada for Gentlemen James Seaton Cockburn
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That pale-eyed son of a sea-cook has landed us on the wrong side of the
Where the Sun Swings North Barrett Willoughby
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No one but a man like Jonas, who had the combined talents of a sea-cook and a cowboy, could have managed it.
The Wrong Woman Charles D. Stewart
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Were he given to reflection, it ought not to surprise him to find a Portuguese sea-cook maintaining that it is wrong to steal, except from the rich; or to learn that a Wahabee saint rated the smoking of tobacco as the worst possible sin next to idolatry, while maintaining that murder, robbery, and such like, were peccadilloes which a merciful God might properly overlook.
A Handbook of Ethical Theory George Stuart Fullerton
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"You double-faced, sneaking son of a sea-cook!" blazed Lander.
Rival Pitchers of Oakdale Morgan Scott
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This second mate'd had his skull split by a crazy sea-cook.
Chapter 42 1914
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