groan-box

Updated: June 28, 2025

"Never mind, Tom," said Packenham hopefully, one day, "he's a big eater, and is bound to get the fever if we give him a fair show in the Solomons. Then we can dump him ashore at some missionary's he and his infernal groan-box and go back to Sydney without the beast."

Louis Becke - A Memory Of The Southern Seas: 1904