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Davy Jones - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun
from The Century Dictionary.
noun Nautical , the spirit of the sea; a sea-devil.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
proper noun proper noun sea bed , bottom of the ocean .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun
Etymologies
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Of uncertain origin.
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Another little fellow by the name Davy Jones had already made his mark in a combo called the Monkees and Bowie thought better than to spend the rest of his career explaining the distinction.
London Free Press 2010
Another little fellow by the name Davy Jones had already made his mark in a combo called the Monkees and Bowie thought better than to spend the rest of his career explaining the distinction.
London Free Press 2010
David Bowie then still called Davy Jones joined in '64 after splitting from his freshman band The King Bees.
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 185 Phil Ramone 2011
Well, some years back he made a little deal with a guy called Davy Jones , and not the one from the Monkees.
CNN Transcript Jun 25, 2006 2006
The Davy Jones is a direct offset to our first well and is on the same big structure that you've seen the different cross-sections on, so we've already proved that the structure at Davy Jones is a trapping structure.
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010
So we have some really petroliferous units that we have as targets around this whole strike part of this what I'll call the Davy Jones trend.
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010
Slide 4 points to Davy Jones , which is a major discovery.
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010
That said, combinations of humans and CGI can look really good, such as Davy Jones at about 1:32.
Award-winning VFX supervisor working on pilot 2009
Jonah and St. John were seafaring characters, and the Roman Catholic holy clerk St. Nicholas was baptized "Davy Jones ," with sundry other reasons good at sea.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. Various
If you do -- capsize, an 'Davy Jones 's locker is the word.
The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands 1859
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