greyback

n. 灰鯨、黑頭鴉、南軍計程車兵

英文釋義

  1. ‘Johnny’ was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; ‘greyback’ derived from their grey Confederate uniforms
  2. a dowitcher with a grey back
  3. a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere