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English
Etymology
purser (“ship mate in charge of accounting for passengers aboard”) + rigged (“fixed”) + parish (“meaning church community ashore”) + damned (“forsaken”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
purser rigged and parish damned
- (obsolete, nautical, slang) Having joined the United States Navy, either because of destitution or in order to flee problems on land.
1850, Herman Melville, White-Jacket, page 352:“Purser rigged and parish damned,” is the sailor saying in the American Navy, when the tyro first mounts the lined frock and blue jacket, aptly manufactured for him in a State Prison ashore.
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