loblolly boy

noun

, Obsolete.

loblolly boy

First recorded in 1740–50

C18: from loblolly sense 2, applied to a ship's doctor's medicines

None of your fresh-water and loblolly-boy terms, if you please.

I laid my hand on the rope, and together we drew the loblolly boy upward and out under the blue of heaven.

Loblolly boy, a derisive term for a surgeons mate in the navy.

I've been called that so often, and become so accustomed to it, and "loblolly boy," that it had no effect.

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