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Synonyms for jetsam

Grammar : Noun
Spell : jet-suh m
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒɛt səm

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Définition of jetsam

Origin :
  • 1560s, jottsome "act of throwing goods overboard to lighten a ship," alteration and contraction of Middle English jetteson, from Anglo-French getteson, Old French getaison "a throwing" (see jettison). Intermediate forms were jetson, jetsome; the form perhaps was deformed by influence of flotsam. From 1590s as "goods thrown overboard;" figurative use by 1861. For distinction of meaning, see flotsam.
  • As in waif : noun lost or unclaimed person or thing
  • As in flotsam : noun floating debris
Example sentences :
  • How many performances of Tristan does this make, Mr. Jetsam?
  • Extract from : « Melomaniacs » by James Huneker
  • This is my estate, and all flotsam and jetsam as is washed ashore is mine.
  • Extract from : « King o' the Beach » by George Manville Fenn
  • The flotsam and jetsam are mere shreds and fragments of wasted lives.
  • Extract from : « How the Other Half Lives » by Jacob A. Riis
  • The crowd passes over him in a flood, leaving him like jetsam among the stones.
  • Extract from : « Jeremiah » by Stefan Zweig
  • I copped it on the high seas—flotsam and jetsam,' says the 'roughneck.'
  • Extract from : « The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure » by Rex Beach
  • The shelving sandy beach is strewed with the jetsam of the storm.
  • Extract from : « With Drake on the Spanish Main » by Herbert Strang
  • But the jetsam is in the position of a passenger who has been carried off by the wrong train.
  • Extract from : « Darwin and Modern Science » by A.C. Seward and Others
  • The two Kabyles are Mohammed's, and the flotsam and jetsam is mine.
  • Extract from : « The Golden Silence » by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
  • I am not a purposeless bit of jetsam flung out on the ocean of time to be tossed about helplessly.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
  • No, there had been no wreck, yet all about her lay the wave-sodden flotsam and jetsam of many past disasters.
  • Extract from : « The Dragon's Secret » by Augusta Huiell Seaman
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