英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɛt.səm/; enPR: jĕtˈ-səm
• ハイフネーション: jet‧sam

名詞

jetsam (countable and uncountable, plural jetsams)

1. Items thrown overboard from a ship or boat in distress in order to lighten its load.

   There she was, floating amongst the jetsam, like so much debris.

2. (by extension) Discarded or leftover odds and ends.

   They were the jetsam of the dot-com bust.

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

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

派生語

• flotsam and jetsam

参考

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

アナグラム

• matjes