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Definition of scuttle-butt in English Turkish dictionary
- scuttlebutt
- şayia
- scuttlebutt
- su mancanası
- scuttlebutt
- {i} dedikodu
- scuttlebutt
- {i} mancana
- scuttlebutt
- {i} söylenti
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Definition of scuttle-butt in English English dictionary
- scuttlebutt
- A butt with a scuttle, a keg of drinking water with a hole cut in it, on board ship, around which sailors would gossip
- scuttlebutt
- Gossip, rumour, idle chatter
- scuttlebutt
- {i} barrel of drinking water on a ship (Nautical); rumor, gossip (Slang)
- scuttlebutt
- a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people; "the divorce caused much gossip"
- scuttlebutt
- A keg of water on board ship, around which sailors would gossip
- scuttlebutt
- stories about other people's personal lives, especially stories that are unkind or untrue = gossip (scuttlebutt (19-20 centuries), from scuttled (18-19 centuries) (from SCUTTLE) + butt (15-21 centuries) (from botte, from buttis); because sailors gathered around the container to talk)