| 单词 |
Rumpty |
| 释义 |
Rumpty, n.2 Air Force slang.|ˈrʌmptɪ| Also Rumpety. [f. rump n.1, after bumpety, bumpity adv.] A Farman training aeroplane, used esp. during the war of 1914–18.
1917A. S. G. Lee Let. 31 Aug. in No Parachute (1968) vi. 103 The Maurice Farman Rumpety I learned to fly on. 1917in Liberty (1926) 28 Aug. 14/1 We are going to start on Rumptys as these Henry Farman planes are called. 1934V. M. Yeates Winged Victory i. x. 83 Tom told them the first time he went up was in a Rumpty, that was to say, a Maurice Farman Shorthorn, a queer sort of bus like an assemblage of birdcages. Ibid. 86 After Rumpties he had gone on to Avros which really were aeroplanes, and quite different to fly. 1968J. J. Hudson Hostile Skies iii. 33 The ‘Rumpty’, the famous Farman primary trainer. |

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