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flotsam
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Learner's definition of FLOTSAM
[noncount]
: floating pieces, parts, etc., from a ship that has been wrecked（漂浮的）船体残骸 — often used figuratively常用作比喻 — often used in the phrase flotsam and jetsam常用于短语flotsam and jetsam — compare jetsam
- flotsam washed up on the shore冲到岸边的漂浮残骸
- bits of flotsam gathered from yard sales从宅前旧物售卖中搜集来的零碎玩意儿
- human flotsam [=people who have no home or who have been forced to leave their homes]无家可归的流浪者
- He spends a lot of time sorting through the flotsam and jetsam that come(s) across his desk each day.他每天都要花大量的时间来整理他满桌的零碎杂物。
Did you know?
Flotsam and Jetsam Aren't Just Ursula's Eels
English speakers started using flotsam, jetsam, and lagan as legal terms in the 16th and 17th centuries (the earliest evidence of flotsam dates from around the early 1600s). The three words were used to establish claims of ownership to the three types of seaborne, vessel-originated goods they named. Flotsam was anything from a shipwreck (the word comes from Old French floter, meaning "to float"). Jetsam and lagan were items thrown overboard to lighten a ship. Lagan was distinguished from jetsam by having a buoy attached so the goods could be found if they sank. In the 19th century, when flotsam and jetsam took on extended meanings, they became synonyms, but they are still very often paired.
Example Sentences
flotsam washed up on the shore the dispirited family picked through the flotsam of their possessions after the hurricane, looking for anything that could be salvaged
Recent Examples on the Web The entire red flag approach will collapse under its own weight, taking down the goodness of the idea by allowing flotsam and riffraff to sink the entire ship. 
Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 June 2022 So, much of the industry’s flotsam and jetsam washes up in warehouses like this one, located off Interstate 81, a few exits from the President Biden Expressway in Scranton, the president’s hometown. Michael Corkery, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2022 Its receding waters are leaving behind the usual flotsam and jetsam of a lake heavily trafficked by weekend boaters — and even exposing a ship dating back to World War II. CBS News, 5 July 2022 From those pensive jigsaw puzzles, Scarbath shapes works of different textures from the flotsam and jetsam of everyday life: a shard of colored glass or a pebble that just caught her eye. Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2022 Beyond the vacuum’s reach, half a dozen blackbirds picked through the flotsam, while outside the boom, plastic bottles bobbed downstream. New York Times, 14 June 2022 Many of her puppets—all handmade, some constructed out of pots and pans or other flotsam—are in the collection of the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 22 June 2022 All told, there are about 37,000 pieces of Gucci rarities, flotsam and priceless artifacts housed in the archives. Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2021 Logs and branches sail downstream on the current, forming snags that catch more flotsam, stray fishing bobbers and tangled tree stumps, soggy old baseball caps. Katie Arnold, Outside Online, 25 July 2014 See More
Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 June 2022 So, much of the industry’s flotsam and jetsam washes up in warehouses like this one, located off Interstate 81, a few exits from the President Biden Expressway in Scranton, the president’s hometown. Michael Corkery, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2022 Its receding waters are leaving behind the usual flotsam and jetsam of a lake heavily trafficked by weekend boaters — and even exposing a ship dating back to World War II. CBS News, 5 July 2022 From those pensive jigsaw puzzles, Scarbath shapes works of different textures from the flotsam and jetsam of everyday life: a shard of colored glass or a pebble that just caught her eye. Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2022 Beyond the vacuum’s reach, half a dozen blackbirds picked through the flotsam, while outside the boom, plastic bottles bobbed downstream. New York Times, 14 June 2022 Many of her puppets—all handmade, some constructed out of pots and pans or other flotsam—are in the collection of the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 22 June 2022 All told, there are about 37,000 pieces of Gucci rarities, flotsam and priceless artifacts housed in the archives. Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2021 Logs and branches sail downstream on the current, forming snags that catch more flotsam, stray fishing bobbers and tangled tree stumps, soggy old baseball caps. Katie Arnold, Outside Online, 25 July 2014 See More Word History
Etymology
Anglo-French floteson, from floter to float, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English flotian to float, flota ship
First Known Use
circa 1607, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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