loblolly boy

loblolly boy ExamplesWord Origin noun Obsolete.

1. an assistant to the surgeon on board a ship.

Origin of loblolly boy First recorded in 1740–50 Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for loblolly boy Historical Examples of loblolly boy

None of your fresh-water and loblolly-boy terms, if you please.

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846

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British Dictionary definitions for loblolly boy loblolly boy loblolly man noun

1. British navy (formerly) a boy or man acting as a medical orderly on board ship

Word Origin for loblolly boy C18: from loblolly sense 2, applied to a ship’s doctor’s medicines Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012