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語源

From Anglo-Norman floteson, from Old French flotaison (“a floating”), from floter (“to float”), of Germanic origin (See float.), + -aison, from Latin -atio.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈflɒtsəm/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈflɑtsəm/
• 韻: -ɒtsəm

名詞

flotsam (countable and uncountable, plural flotsams)

1. Debris floating in a river or sea, in particular fragments from a shipwreck.
   • 1988 May 9, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Michael Dorn, LeVar Burton, Conspiracy (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC:

     WORF: Sensors beginning to pick up small objects, sir.
     PICARD: On screen.
     RIKER: Doesn't look natural.
     PICARD: Agreed. Enlarge and identify.
     WORF: It looks like debris from a space vessel of some kind.
     RIKER: It could be one of those ships that was orbiting Dytallix.
     LA FORGE: We are in close proximity to that planet.
     PICARD: Identify marks Mr. Worf.
     WORF: Nothing so far. Sensors not detecting any bodies in the flotsam. But from the amount of the wreckage, I'm sorry sir, it can only be the Horatio. From the looks of it she's been totally destroyed.

   • 1991 May 30, Emily Gwathmey, “Storage Box: Catchall's New Life as Eye-Catcher”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 2024-12-14:

     STORAGE boxes -- catchalls for flotsam, jetsam, whatnots and thingamajigs -- are gaining new interest as decorative objects for the home.

   • 2021 October 7, Shana Gohd, “The Siren” (0:17 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows‎, season 3, episode 7, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):

     “What about that one?” “That'll do nicely. That gaggle of human flotsam doesn't even belong on the sea.”

派生語

• flotsam and jetsam

参考

• flotsam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• lagan
• jetsam
• derelict
• salvage

アナグラム

• fotmals