бъчва с вода за пиене noun (cask with a hole cut into its top, used to provide drinking water on board a ship)
слухове noun (gossip, idle chatter — see also gossip)
сплетни noun (gossip, idle chatter — see also gossip)

Dutch

1 entries

geroddel noun (gossip, idle chatter — see also gossip)

Finnish

4 entries

huhupuhe noun (gossip, idle chatter — see also gossip)
reiällinen vesitynnyri noun (cask with a hole cut into its top, used to provide drinking water on board a ship)
huhuta verb ((transitive, slang) to spread (information) by way of gossip or rumour)
levittää verb ((transitive, slang) to spread (information) by way of gossip or rumour)

Hebrew

1 entries

חָבִית מֵי שְׁתִיָּה noun (cask with a hole cut into its top, used to provide drinking water on board a ship)

Hungarian

3 entries

mendemonda noun (gossip, idle chatter — see also gossip)
mesebeszéd noun (gossip, idle chatter — see also gossip)
pletyka noun (gossip, idle chatter — see also gossip)

Macedonian

3 entries

бу́ре за во́да noun (cask with a hole cut into its top, used to provide drinking water on board a ship)
гла́сови noun (gossip, idle chatter — see also gossip)
слу́х noun (gossip, idle chatter — see also gossip)

Polish

1 entries

plotka noun (gossip, idle chatter — see also gossip)

Russian

3 entries

лагу́н noun (cask with a hole cut into its top, used to provide drinking water on board a ship)
слу́хи noun (gossip, idle chatter — see also gossip)
спле́тни noun (gossip, idle chatter — see also gossip)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries

trač noun (gossip, idle chatter — see also gossip)

Ukrainian

1 entries

плі́тка noun (gossip, idle chatter — see also gossip)

Sample sentences

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The scuttlebutt is they're going to Australia.

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The scuttlebutt is that layoffs are coming.

Source: tatoeba (13008033)

[S]o they continue to fire as directed, until they are either sent down to the cock-pit themselves, or have a momentary respite from their exertions, when, choaked with smoke and gunpowder, they go aft to the scuttle-butt, to remove their parching thirst.

Source: wiktionary

In this way, with an occasional break by relieving the wheel, heaving the log, and going to the scuttle-butt for a drink of water, the longest watch was passed away; […]

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