loblolly boy
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English
Etymology
From loblolly in the sense of gruel made with seaworthy ingredients.
Noun
loblolly boy (plural loblolly boys)
- (historical) In 18th- and 19th-century warships, a non-professional (male) assistant to the ship's surgeon.
- 2023, David Grann, chapter 2, in The Wager, Doubleday:
- he carpenter repairing masts and plugging dangerous leaks in the hull, the surgeon attending to the sick. (His helpers were known as loblolly boys, for the porridge they served.)