trumpetist

[…] without ever spoiling the high-range adjustment of his lips by descending into the lower registers of principal trumpetists […]

1948, Curt Sachs, Our Musical Heritage: A Short History of Music, page 268:

The trumpet was late in joining the orchestra, partly because the self-styled "knightly" guild in which the trumpetists were organized precluded, or at least discouraged, any cooperation with ordinary musicians.

1957, The Encyclopedia Americana: The International Reference Work, page 647:

On another night at the Rosebud, the whole upper deck of the club was taken over by performers accompanying famous Cuban trumpetist and former bandmember of the Havana Latin fusion band […]

2016, Miguel A. Sagué-Machiran, Canoa: Taino Indigenous Dream River Journey:

(rare) A trumpeter; someone who plays a trumpet.


drummist

(rare) A drummer; someone who plays a drum.


cigar box guitarist

en-noun

cigar box guitarist (plural cigar box guitarists)


guitjoist

This band of countrymen consists of fiddler Ketch Secor, guitjoist Kevin Hayes, upright bassist Morgan Jahnig, guitarist Willie Watson, and banjoist Critter Fuqua.

2008, Daniel Martin, "Old Crow Medicine Show's third release heavy on folk", Pioneer (Oklahoma City Community College), Volume 37, Issue 7, 29 September 2008, page 3

Featuring cellist Hannah Alkire and double-neck guitjoist Joe Scott, this eclectic duo blends Celtic, folk, and world music.

2010, Glen Starkey, "His aim is true", NewTimes (San Luis Obispo County, California), Volume 24, Issue 36, 7 April 2010

Double-neck guitjoist Joe Scott and cellist Hannah Alkirem have performed across the U.S., Canada, Australia and Europe and have released 10 albums of acoustic, instrumental fusion.

2014 February 27, Asher Brown-Pinsky, “10-Day Forecast”, in The Gainesville Sun:


banjitarist

Someone who plays the banjitar (guitjo).


bioarcheologist

The desire to maintain specimens intact is shared by bioarcheologists too.

2015 August 6, Otto Appenzeller et al., “Bioarcheology: Medicine, Biology, and Forensic Sciences”, in BioMed Research International, volume 2015, →DOI:


neurooncologist

One who works in the field of neurooncology.


classical guitarist

classical guitarist (plural classical guitarists)


console steel guitarist

console steel guitarist (plural console steel guitarists)

console steel guitar
console steel guitar

Someone who plays the console steel guitar.


steel guitarist

steel guitarist (plural steel guitarists)


diddley bower

(music) Someone who plays the diddley bow.


hammered dulcimerist

hammered dulcimerist (plural hammered dulcimerists)

Someone who plays the hammered dulcimer.


komuzist

[…] that undergo continuous transformation on the lips of the singers and under the fingers of the komuzists in accordance with individual talents, artistic intent and experience, as well as the peculiarities of a given text.

1970, Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council, page 79:


mandocellist

From mandocello + -ist, influenced by cellist.


luminist

(painting) A painter who works in the style of luminism.


lap steel guitarist

lap steel guitarist (plural lap steel guitarists)


pedal steel guitarist

pedal steel guitarist (plural pedal steel guitarists)

Someone who plays the pedal steel guitar.


table steel guitarist

table steel guitarist (plural table steel guitarists)

Someone who plays the table steel guitar.


tenor guitarist

tenor guitarist (plural tenor guitarists)

Analyzable as tenor guitar + -ist or as a Blend of tenor guitar + guitarist.


sarodist

He has produced many of the most outstanding sarodists around the world, but especially in America, where he has a very strong following because of his school there.

2006, Peter Lavezzoli, The Dawn of Indian Music in the West, page 432:


electric cellist

electric cellist (plural electric cellists)


electric violinist

electric violinist (plural electric violinists)


electric sitarist

electric sitarist (plural electric sitarists)


electric harpist

electric harpist (plural electric harpists)


scratchband

scratchband (countable and uncountable, plural scratchbands)

(countable, dated, Virgin Islands) A group of musicians who play scratch music.


squeezeboxer

Someone who plays a squeezebox (accordion).


mouth organist

Someone who plays any of the instruments called a mouth organ (panpipes, Jew's harp, harmonica).


jaw harpist

Someone who plays a jaw harp (Jew's harp).


mouth harpist

Someone who plays a mouth harp (either a harmonica or a Jew's harp).


idiophonist

Someone who plays an idiophone musical instrument.


frottoirist

Someone who plays a frottoir (rubboard).


glass harmonicist

glass harmonicist (plural glass harmonicists)


cowbellist

I spent the next two months back in Michigan, where my days as a cowbellist were coming to an end.

2008, Rick Lax, Lawyer Boy: A Case Study on Growing Up, page 42:

(chiefly humorous) Someone who plays a cowbell.


musical sawist

Synonym of sawist (Someone who plays a musical saw)


bellist

(rare) Someone who plays bells; a musical bell ringer.


pannist

Most contemporary bands are comprised of between fifty and two hundred volunteer pannists, who play one or two harmonic pans; with up to six instruments, bass pannists have to be pretty dextrous, twisting around to reach the right notes.

2018, Polly Thomas, The Rough Guide to Trinidad and Tobago, Apa Publications, →ISBN:


woodwindist

Someone who plays a woodwind instrument, such as the clarinet.


wind instrumentalist

wind instrumentalist (plural wind instrumentalists)


reed instrumentalist

reed instrumentalist (plural reed instrumentalists)


brass instrumentalist

brass instrumentalist (plural brass instrumentalists)


string instrumentalist

string instrumentalist (plural string instrumentalists)

Someone who plays a string instrument (chordophone).


flute-player

(rare, dated) Someone who plays a flute.


bluester

A musician who plays the blues or music influenced by the blues.


rhinestone cowboy

rhinestone cowboy (plural rhinestone cowboys)

A person, especially a country musician, who affects a cowboy-like image but with glamorous and fashionable accents.


frame drummer

Someone who plays any instrument of the frame drum-family.


bucket drummer

Someone who plays a bucket as a musical instrument, usually as a busker or street musician.


hornpiper

From Middle English hornpiper, hornpipere, equivalent to hornpipe + -er.


handclapper

Someone who claps, especially as part of a musical performance; a clapper.


jawboneist

Audio (US)

Someone who plays a jawbone as a musical instrument.


bioclimatologist

From bio- + climatologist or bioclimatology + -ist.

Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at Columbia University, said the study added to evidence that rising temperatures had exacerbated the lack of snow in California.

2015 September 14, Nicholas St. Fleur, “Study Finds Snowpack in California’s Sierra Nevada to Be Lowest in 500 Years”, in New York Times:


Amerindianist

A scholar who studies the American Indians.


graphic artist

Someone who uses visual art to create images for a specific purpose, such as advertising or web design; a graphic designer.


graphic designer

graphic designer (plural graphic designers)

An artist who creates images for a specific purpose, such as advertising or web design.


guslar

bor

gȕslār//гу̏сла̄р


Hardanger fiddler

en-noun

Hardanger fiddler (plural Hardanger fiddlers)


monochordist

Someone who plays a monochord (one-stringed chordophone).


barrel organist

barrel organist (plural barrel organists)


church organist

church organist (plural church organists)


talking drummer

talking drummer (plural talking drummers)


tom-tom drummer

tom-tom drummer (plural tom-tom drummers)


hymenopterologist

Many other cases could be cited, but these, I think, will do to show the difficulty of the study of the Pompilidae, and how deficient our generic definitions must be when our most able hymenopterologists are so easily led astray by superficial resemblances.

1900, The Canadian Entomologist, volume 32, page 153:


house slave

A slave who works in a home, performing domestic duties rather than fieldwork or other hard labor.


field slave

A slave whose duties primarily entail working in a field, such as in agriculture, as opposed to a house slave.


BookTuber

Blend of book + YouTuber, equivalent to book + -Tuber.

And last but certainly not least, to all the online book geeks (booktubers, tweeps, and bloggers), my sincere gratitude, as always, for your support and encouragement!

2012, "Acknowledgements," in Daniel Marks, Velveteen, Delacorte Press (2012), page 450

Thank you to the readers, librarians, booksellers, BookTubers, and bloggers who celebrate stories all over the world.

2015, "Acknowledgements," in Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows, Henry Holt and Company (2015), page 464

Booksandquills: Sanne Vliegenthart (yes, that is her actual name) is also a long-time BookTuber.

2015 September, Helga Pearson, “Book Tube: Video Killed the Blog Star”, in Authors Magazine, page 17:

(Internet) A YouTube videoblogger who reviews or discusses books.

booktuber

YouTuber personality who reviews or discusses books


attorney-at-law

A lawyer qualified to represent in court a party to a lawsuit.


border guard

A person assigned to watch, protect or control the frontier between two sovereign states.

սահմանապահ

a person assigned to watch, protect or control the frontier between two sovereign states


capmaker

A person or company that manufactures caps (the headgear).

sapkakészítő

a person or company that manufactures caps (the headgear)


tromba marinist

tromba marinist (plural tromba marinists)


backtroller

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(fishing) One who fishes by backtrolling.


watchnight

New Year's Eve

whereas watch night is the night that begins at sundown on New Year's Eve and ends with sunrise on New Year's Day

not identical to watchnight – New Year's Eve is the entire day before New Year's Day

And there is one night in the year I have always observed – the good old Methodist vigil called Watch-night, popularly described as "seeing the old year out and the new year in." […] I have only been a Methodist once a year; and peculiar, accordingly, have my watch-night emotions been. There stands the old portico in —— street; can it be a year since I ascended those steps? These are the aisles, the columns, the pulpit, the recess with its inscriptions, the Christmas evergreens yet fresh over the Communion Table – silent preachers all, that seem to say: "You and I are a year older, friend; but we have seen more watch-nights than you, and are likely to see more yet;[…]["]

1861, “Watch-night in the Channel”, in The Sunday at Home: A Family Magazine for Sabbath Reading, London: The Religious Tract Society, →OCLC, page 260:

This was the first watchnight meeting among the Methodists. The people met at half-past eight; the house was filled from end to end; and "we concluded the year," says [John] Wesley, "wrestling with God in prayer, and praising Him for the wonderful work which He had already wrought upon the earth."

1872, L[uke] Tyerman, The Life and Times of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., Founder of the Methodists. … In Three Volumes, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 333:

Wesleyan Methodist Twentieth Century Celebration: Order of Watchnight Service to be Held in Every Wesleyan-Methodist Place of Worship in Great Britain on the Night of Monday, 31st December, 1900, Being the Last Night of the Nineteenth Century

[1900], Wesleyan Methodist Twentieth Century Celebration, London, Aylesbury: Hazell, Watson and Viney, →OCLC, cover title:

The first watch night services ever held in Grace Protestant Episcopal Church were but poorly attended, […]

1901 January 1, “Watch Night Services”, in The New York Times, page 2:

Watchnight. December 31 This is a midnight service that summarizes the past year. In recent centuries, the Moravians and early Methodists have celebrated it as a vigil service focusing on newness, the spiritual life, and covenants.

1999, R. Mark Liebenow, And Everyone Shall Praise: Resources for Multicultural Worship, Cleveland, Oh.: United Church Press, →ISBN, page 77:

(Christianity) A religious service involving a review of the past year and preparation for the year ahead participated in by Methodists and members of other Christian denominations which starts late on New Year's Eve and ends after midnight on New Year's Day; hence, the night that begins on December 31 and ends on January 1.


shabbos goy

/ˈʃɑbəs ˈɡɔɪ/

Borrowed from Yiddish שבת גוי (shabes goy, literally “Sabbath gentile”).

bor+

Sometimes the family was helped on the Sabbath by a shabbos goy who would light some candles in their house.

A Gentile who performs certain acts which are forbidden to observant Jews on the Sabbath/Shabbat, such as kindling fire.


armatole

/ˈɑɹməˌtoʊl/

Borrowed from Greek αρματολός (armatolós), alternative form of αρματόλογος (armatólogos, “a person concerned or involved with arms or weapons”), from άρματα (ármata) (plural of άρμα (árma, “weapon”), from Byzantine Greek ἄρμα (árma), from Latin arma (“armour, defensive arms, shields, weapons of war”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“fitting”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- (“to join”)) + λόγος (lógos, “subject matter”) (from Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos), from λέγω (légō, “I say”), from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-).
The plural form armatoloi and possibly armatoli are from the Greek plural form αρματολοί (armatoloí).

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[page 159] These [the Klephtai] are either Greeks whose ancestors taking refuge in the mountains when the Turks first conquered the country, have transmitted to them hereditary persecution and liberty; or Armatoloi (a sort of Grecian militia, originally established in Thessaly, armed for their own protection, and recognized, though always suspected, by the Turkish authorities) who have been driven by oppression to join their brethren on the mountains, and become, like them, guerrillas. Every thing relating to the Klephtai and Armatoloi ought to be now doubly interesting, since their institutions preserved, through the long darkness of Grecian suffering, the vestal flame of liberty, and their hardy bands have principally contributed to swell the Greek armies. […] [page 160] Call me a priest—to whom I may confess / All my past errors—would the list were less— / A Klephtes long! an Armatolos longer, / Terror of Turks—but now the foe is stronger— / 'Tis Death! […]

1824 July, “Art. VII. Histoire de la Régénération de la Grèce, par F[rançois] C[harles] H[ugues] L[aurent] Pouqueville. 4 tomes. Paris, 1824. [et al.]”, in The Westminster Review, volume II, number III, London: Printed for the proprietors, and published by Robert Heward, at the office of the Westminster Review, 2, Wellington Street, Strand, →OCLC, pages 159–160:

The rank of captain was hereditary; and the profession of an Armatòle probably descendible. The members composing each band were called Pallikàrs: a term for which we have no English equivalent, but which nearly answers to the French expression "des braves." Of these, the first, or Protopalikar, acted as lieutenant and secretary to the captain, and bore, as a badge of office, a silver writing-case affixed to his sash; besides the silver plates bound over the knees, and the ornamental buttons which studded the breast of every Armatòle: […]

1825, “Preface”, in Charles Brinsley Sheridan, transl., The Songs of Greece, from the Romaic Text, Edited by M. C[laude] Fauriel, with Additions. Translated into English Verse, London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Paternoster-Row, →OCLC, page xxii:

From a very early period of the Turkish dominion over Greece, a system was adopted of having a local police, composed of native Greeks, for the preservation of the peace of each district, and for repressing the incursions of the independent tribes of the mountains. The appellation of this police was Armatoles (Ὰρματολοὶ); […] The armatoles were bound to obey the directions of the pasha or his deputy, and the Greek primates. The arms of the armatoles were the same as those of the Albanians, namely, a long gun, a sword, and a dagger.

1830, Thomas Keightley, chapter 1, in History of the War of Independence in Greece. … In Two Volumes (Constable's Miscellany of Original and Selected Publications in the Various Departments of Literature, Science, & the Arts; LX), volume I, Edinburgh: Printed for Constable and Co. and Hurst, Chance, and Co. London, →OCLC, page 7:

The armatoli were a Christian local militia, which had existed in the Byzantine empire, and which had in some degree protected the Greek population against the Franks, the Servians, and the Albanians, during the anarchy that reigned in Greece and Macedonia, while the worthless race of the Paleologoi ruled at Constantinople. The Greeks in the mountain districts, fearing anarchy more than despotism, generally submitted to the sultans on the condition of being allowed to retain their local privileges. The institution of the armatoli was thus adopted into the scheme of the sultan's administration.

1861, George Finlay, “The Condition of the Modern Greeks”, in History of the Greek Revolution … In Two Volumes, volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 24:

(historical) A Greek armed mercenary who enforced Ottoman rule in Greece from the 15th century onward; during the Greek War of Independence (1821–1832), many armatoloi became pro-independence guerrilla fighters opposed to Ottoman rule.

armatol

Greek mercenary who enforced Ottoman rule


cyberathlete

Amy Ketchum is a “cyberhost” at XS New York, which is something of an arcade of the future in Times Square. Her job is […] to provide a running commentary as the “cyberathletes” show their skills at Road Rash and other games.

1997 January 31, “Metro Digest”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(dated) One who competes professionally in video game tournaments.


steel band

A band (musical group) who perform with steelpans.


Landsknecht

en-noun

Landsknecht (plural Landsknechts or Landsknechte)

Landsknechts (plural)
Landsknechte (plural)

Borrowed from German Landsknecht, from Lands (“of the land”) + Knecht (“servant”). Doublet of lansquenet.

(historical) Alternative form of lansquenet


viniculturist

A person who practices viniculture; a viticulturist specifically involved in wine production.


derbendci

From Ottoman Turkish دربندجی (derbendçi).

The derbendci, some two thousand families of Rumelia, acted as guards of mountain passes, bridges, and other strategic locations in exchange for tax relief and represent a transition from real fighters to auxiliary forces.

1993, Peter F. Sugar, Southeastern Europe Under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804, →ISBN, page 39:

The derbendci, inadequate in number, could not cope with the new situation.

1998, Tom Scott, The Peasantries of Europe, →ISBN, page 306:

In other areas self-rule resulted from the fact that certain occupational groups, such as miners, tar extractors, horse breeders, derbendci (guardians of mountain passes), saline workers or producers of gunpowder, had been exempted from certain taxes, and subsequently these 'privileges' were associated with their settlements as well.

2006, Suraiya Faroqhi, The Cambridge History of Turkey, →ISBN, page 161:

These exemptions were similar to those granted to the derbendci, men who guarded roads and mountain passes.

2007, Mark L. Stein, Guarding the Frontier: Ottoman Border Forts and Garrisons, →ISBN, page 90:

Entire villages were often charged with the derbendci duty and consequently exempted from certain taxes.

2012, Michael Ursinus, Grievance Administration (Sikayet) in an Ottoman Province, →ISBN, page 41:

The guards charged with maintaining and defending a derbend in exchange for tax relief.


Iranicist

/ɪəɻɔːnɪsɪst/

A linguist specializing in Iranian languages.


medical practitioner

medical practitioner (plural medical practitioners)

(usually) One who is licensed to do so and serves human patients.


microclimatologist

From micro- + climatologist or microclimatology + -ist.


unhairer

A person employed to remove the hair from animal skins.


trouter

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-trouter.wav

(fishing) An angler who fishes for trout.


pharmacian

From pharmacy + -ian, probably after the model of French pharmacien.

The analogy of these bases to metallic oxides and their valuable applications in medicine have rendered the class a favourite study with both chemists and pharmacians.

1843, Thomas Graham, Robert Bridges, Elements of Chemistry, page 657:

(rare, archaic) Synonym of pharmacist: a person who sells medicines.


pharmacopole

From Latin pharmacopola, from Ancient Greek φαρμακοπώλης (pharmakopṓlēs), from φάρμακον (phármakon, “drug, charm, enchantment”) + -πώλης (-pṓlēs, “-seller, -monger”). Doublet of pharmacopolist.

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φαρμακοπώλης

(archaic) Synonym of quack: a peddler of fraudulent medicines and cures.


blurbist

Months later I met one of the blurbists (that's a word in Webster's Fourth) and found that the author in question, aside from being a fine fellow and vice president of an important movie company, had been dying of cancer at the time the blurbs were requested.

1978 July 23, William Cole, “The Blurb and I”, in The New York Times:

We scan the pages of the book to see what the hidden connection between blurbist and blurbee might be.

1996 August 12, Pico Iyer, “Jacketeering”, in The New York Times:


Dalí

From Catalan Dalí, possibly from dalí (“stick for fording”), from Arabic دَلِيل (dalīl, “sign, guide”).

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989), Spanish artist.


string player

a musician who plays a string instrument, one where a bow is used, often in an orchestra.


best girl

(film production) A woman who performs the duties of a best boy.


judgess

The judgess demands in her charge to the jury to “despise and hate all men and to bring up your children to do the same.”

1918, Motography, Volume 19, Issues 1-26:


commissioning editor

en-noun

commissioning editor (plural commissioning editors)

A person who identifies books for a publisher to publish, and acts as a link to authors


prison officer

A person responsible for the supervision and security of prisoners.


associate professor

associate professor (plural associate professors)

China's current economic challenges will be an "important factor" in Mr Xi's negotiations and "would lead to a stronger desire to stabilise the economic, trade and investment relations with the US", Li Mingjiang, an associate professor at Singapore's S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, told the BBC.

2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC:

(education) A teacher in a higher education institution who ranks above an assistant professor and below a professor.


Constable

An English surname originating as an occupation from Old French conestable (“constable”).

A town in Franklin County, New York; named for landowner William Constable.


bioacoustician

From either bio- + acoustician or bioacoustic(s) + -ian.


doctorling

Such is the infallible decision of our German "theologasters" and doctorlings.

1853, The Protestant Quarterly Review, volume 10, page 109:

That last dreadful clause destroyed the fair vision of each sanguine and sanguinary doctorling, of a “free blow," at lectures and a five dollar diploma.

(derogatory) A minor, subordinate, or inferior doctor


lax bro

(slang) A stereotypical male lacrosse player.


railwaywoman

Some 100,000 railwaymen have been released to join the fighting forces, 90,000 are training as Home Guards in addition to their railway work, 170,000 members of the railway staffs have been fully trained in A.R.P. duties, and 100,000 railwaywomen are now employed.

1943 March-April, John R. Hind, “The British Railways at War”, in Railway Magazine, page 95:

(rail transport) A woman who works on a railway.

железничарка

woman who works on a railway — see also railwayman


Dominoid

They're the ones we call Dominoids, and we say they have pizza sauce in their veins.

1986, Tom Monaghan, Robert Anderson, Pizza Tiger, page 18:

Dominoids want to train and want to be trained.

2009, Dave Melton, Tim McIntyre, Hire the American Dream:

Black, like every other Dominoid I interviewed, profoundly doubted that dozens of lawsuits had been filed by relatives of people who had died or been seriously injured in crashes involving Domino's drivers that year.

2012, James Leonard, Living the Faith: A Life of Tom Monaghan, page 139:

(informal) An employee of Domino's Pizza.


pedorthist

A professional who has specialized training to modify footwear and employ supportive devices to address conditions which affect the feet and lower limbs.


coach driver

(UK, Australia) A person employed to drive a coach (long-distance bus).


tonologist

Perhaps the most basic problem which confronts the tonologist is how to formally represent multiple tone heights, both in underlying and in derived representations.

1993, Keith Snider, Harry van der Hulst, “Issues in the Representation of Tonal Register”, in Keith Snider, Harry van der Hulst, editors, The Phonology of Tone: The Representation of Tonal Register, Berlin, New York, N.Y.: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 2:

The letter was written by the late Jan Voorhoeve, a major Africanist and tonologist.

2001, Larry M. Hyman, “Fieldwork as a State of Mind”, in Paul Newman, Martha Ratliff, editors, Linguistic Fieldwork, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 31:

The concept of language universals by generative grammarians directs the Japanese tonologists to view Japanese pitch-accent from a more global perspective[…].

2002, Esther Yuk Wah Lai, Prosody and Prosodic Transfer in Foreign Language Acquisition: Cantonese and Japanese (LINCOM Studies in Language Acquisition; 08), Munich: Lincom Europa, →ISBN, page 176:

Indeed, the proposals might be said to bring together the South-East Asianist's conception of ‘register’ and the tonologist’s conception of ‘register’.

2004, Katrina Hayward, Justin Watkins, Akin Oyètádé, “The Phonetic Interpretation of Register”, in John Local, Richard Ogden, Rosalind Temple, editors, Phonetic Interpretation: Papers in Laboratory Phonology VI, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 307:


anthroposociologist

We may therefore admit the force of the arguments of the school of criminal anthropologists headed by Lombroso, of the school of anthroposociologists headed by Lapouge, of the school of individualists headed by Demolins, and of the statiscians, who have demonstrated the law that the increase of intelligence and of population are inversely proportional […]

1903, Lester Frank Ward, Pure Sociology: A Treatise on the Origin and Spontaneous Development of Society, page 231:

We find, a generation later, the well-informed, impassioned, thought-compelling rhapsodies of the anthroposociologist Vacher de Lapouge.

1917, “France and "The Great Race"”, in The Unpopular Review, volume 8, number 16, page 252:

The anthroposociologist, Ivan Bloch, in The Sexual Life of Our Times (1906), points out how modern society simultaneously ridicules the 'old maid' and 'condemns the unmarried mother to infamy'.

2007, Lisa Appignanesi, Sad, mad and bad: women and the mind-doctors from 1800, page 183:

As an anthroposociologist and a critic of contemporary French society, Vacher de Lapouge was concemed with two dominant social obsessions of the Third Republic: fear of population decline and of racial degeneration.

2013, Antisemitism: An Annotated Bibliography, volume 15, page 99:


cognitologist

(rare) Someone who studies cognitive science.


dairy farmer

(agriculture) A farmer who maintains a herd of dairy cows for the production of milk.


handcyclist

(sports) A person who rides a handcycle or who competes in handcycling.


shutterer

That year four men looked like good material for the expedition: a surveyor, an engineer, a shutterer (concrete moldmaker) and a scaffolding erector.

1983, Ranulph Fiennes, To the Ends of the Earth:

(construction) A worker who constructs shuttering/formwork.


lampadarius

From Latin lampada, from Ancient Greek λαμπάς (lampás, “candle”).

(Christianity) The leader of the second (left) choir of singers in Eastern Orthodox Christianity.


histoscientist

A scientist whose speciality is histopathology.


biogeoscientist

We are seeking a Biogeoscientist to teach introductory, intermediate, and advanced biology and environmental studies courses.

2003, Black Issues in Higher Education, Volume 20, Issues 8-14:

A scholar or researcher in biogeoscience.


kandak

Once a kandak has been trained and equipped, it is posted to an area of the country where it conducts counter-insurgency operations.

2008, John Mackinlay, Terence McNamee, Greg Mills, International peace-building for the 21st century, page 29:

Team Beast was there to advise, assist, and train the Afghan kandak; to increase its operational effectiveness; and to help it enable its brigade.

The kandak was going to raid the village and arrest or kill any enemies they found inside.

2015, Mark Evans, Andrew Sharples, Code Black: Cut off and facing overwhelming odds: the siege of Nad Ali, →ISBN:

A unit in the Afghan army that works in cooperation with American forces.


public defender

public defender (plural public defenders)

(law) An attorney appointed to represent people who cannot afford to hire one.


butterwoman

(dated) A woman who makes or sells butter.


milkperson

milkperson (plural milkpersons or milkpeople)

milkpersons (plural)
milkpeople (plural)

(nonstandard, rare) A milkman or milkwoman.


dustperson

dustperson (plural dustpersons or dustpeople)

dustpersons (plural)
dustpeople (plural)

(nonstandard, rare, chiefly humorous) A dustman or dustwoman.


robopsychologist

From robo- + psychologist.
Coined by Isaac Asimov


aulode

(historical) A singer who accompanies a song played on the aulos.


onsetter

Compared to normative stayers, increasing hyperactivity and maltreatment during childhood were associated with a likelihood of being a late onsetter.

2008, Anna Hyun, Factors Associated with Stability and Change in Offending Among School Enrolled Adolescents and Their Transitions into Emerging Adulthood:

(medicine) One who undergoes the onset of a condition.


chief minister

The leader of government in many semi-autonomous and constituent federal states.


flameworker

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songman

They have epic material so that it takes sometimes forty years to become a songman.

2014, Anne Waldman, Laura Wright, Cross Worlds: Transcultural Poetics: An Anthology:

A singer, especially a singer of songs; a gleeman.


geriatrist

One who studies or works in the field of geriatrics.


cable man

A man that works for the cable television service and installs cable television.


pizza woman

A woman employed to deliver pizza to customers' homes.


e-recruiter

A recruiter who uses e-recruitment technologies.


newspaperperson

newspaperperson (plural newspaperpersons or newspaperpeople)

newspaperpersons (plural)
newspaperpeople (plural)

(nonstandard, rare) A newspaperman or newspaperwoman.


garbageperson

garbageperson (plural garbagepersons or garbagepeople)

garbagepersons (plural)
garbagepeople (plural)

(nostandard, rare, gender-neutral) A garbage collector of any gender; a garbageman or garbagewoman.


war artist

A person who, usually as an occupation, depicts scenes from conflicts.


hammer thrower

(athletics) An athlete who competes in the hammer throw.


synchronized diver

synchronized diver (plural synchronized divers)

Someone who practices synchronized diving.

szinkronugró

someone who practices synchronized diving


field hockey player

field hockey player (plural field hockey players)

One who plays field hockey, especially professionally.


badmintonist

badminton player
badminton player#English


telephone girl

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I've just had a row with a telephone girl, a telephone girl, my brain's in a whirl.

1915, W. David, J. Barnett, Hermann Darewski (lyrics and music), “Which Switch is the Switch, Miss, for Ipswich?”:

(telephony, dated) A female telephone operator.


triangulist

Mr. Church plays well enough for even his rebukes to sniggering children to be enjoyable: when it turns out that none of them will take over the vacant triangle in the school orchestra because the last triangulist's hair fell out, it is all faintly sinister.

1964, The Spectator, Volume 213, page 47:

So, those who wish to apply for the position of triangulist, hands up please.

1968, James Saunders, Neighbours: And Other Plays, page 175:

Of course, we know the difference between good and bad triangulists... but one refuses to see in the sporadic triangle tinkling the ultimate purpose of a human being's earthly existence.

1975, George Seltzer, The Professional symphony orchestra in the United States, page 171:

A rich and varied life, a good deal more interesting than that of Hindemith's classically-minded triangulist.

1977, Country Life, Volume 162, page 611:

Backstage after the concert, the maestro rewards the triumphant triangulist with his trademarked embrace.

1982, The Washingtonian, Volume 17, page 200:

In the 1964 Slovak film, The Case of Barnabas Kos (Solan 1964), the lead character is a rather ordinary, somewhat lazy or absent-minded triangulist for an orchestra whom the board promotes to business manager against his will.

2007, Jonathan L. Larson, Whose Critical Thinking? Political Processes and Regimes of Voice in Western Slovakia, 1948-2005, page 343:

Jerome was getting to be one feisty little triangulist.

2013, Chris Lynch, Scratch and the Sniffs, page 36:


wickerworker

From wickerwork + -er or wicker + worker.

They turned and found the wicker-worker hard at their heels, followed by long trails of withy.

2012, Ngaio Marsh, Death in a White Tie: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #7:

Another increasing concern with both ideological and pragmatic elements related to the situation of wickerworkers.

2013, Joong-Seop Kim, The Korean Paekjong Under Japanese Rule:


Sc.D.

Doctor of Science
Doctor of Science#English

(education) Initialism of Doctor of Science.


gurkhan

From Khitan, via Chinese and Arabic historians, see modern Mongolian гүр хан (gür xan) for details.

(historical) A ruler of the Qara Khitai.


Pama-Nyunganist

A linguist who specialises in studying Pama-Nyungan languages.


Mongolicist

A linguist who specialises in studying Mongolic languages.


Nilo-Saharanist

A linguist who specializes in studying Nilo-Saharan languages.


Austroasiaticist

(linguistics) A linguist who specialises in studying Austroasiatic languages.


Quechuanist

(linguistics) A linguist who specialises in studying Quechuan languages.


Kartvelianist

A linguist who specialises in studying Kartvelian languages.


pidginist

(linguistics) A linguist who specialises in studying pidgins.


Californianist

Californianists have argued that areal patterns in the region show that phonological and grammatical convergence is more prominent than lexical borrowing, challenging the usual understanding that lexical items are universally more "borrowable", needing less intense language contact than is required for convergence of traits of grammar and phonology.

2019, Daniel Siddiqi, The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages, page 579:

A linguist or anthropologist who specialises in studying the peoples and languages of California.


land agent

He held the office as resident land agent of the Holland Land Company for twenty-one years. In this capacity he laid out the city of New Amsterdam, now Buffalo, gave its streets the jaw-breaking names of the Dutch proprietors and made it a flourishing town.

1932, A.M. Sakolski, The great American land bubble, →ISBN, page 81:

As land agent, he had observed the successful German settlement at Muenster, thirty-eight miles north, and the arrival of a French-Canadian group who took up homesteads in 1904 at St. Brieux, in the same area.

1997, Jeanne Ruth Merifield Beck, To Do and to Endure: The Life of Catherine Donnelly, Sister of Service, →ISBN:

Those grants that were taken up depended primarily upon a land agent and an overseer for their operation. The land agent was the owner's representative in America and was responsible for managing the legal and practical affairs related to obtaining and developing the grant.

1998, James J. Miller, An Environmental History of Northeast Florida, →ISBN, page 141:

(historical) A person employed to manage the legal and practical aspects of developing a land grant.


cafegee

(historical) A person employed to make coffee in Turkey or Syria.


toxinologist

A scientist whose speciality is toxinology


sowgelder

The Loone is an ill ſhap'd thing like a Cormorant; but that he can neyther goe nor flye; he maketh a noiſe ſometimes like a Sovvgelders horne.

1634, William Wood, “Of the Birds and Fowles both of Land and Water”, in New Englands Prospect. A True, Lively, and Experimentall Description of that Part of America, Commonly Called New England; […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Bellamie, […], →OCLC, 1st part, page 31:

First he that led the cavalcate, / Wore a sow-gelder’s flagellet, / On which he blew as strong a levet.

1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:

Next, old Echepole, the sowgelder, received a blow in his forehead from our Amazonian heroine, and immediately fell to the ground.

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:


rosemaler

/ˈɹəʊzəˌmɑːlə/

/ˈɹoʊzəˌmɑlɚ/

From rosemaling + -er; or borrowed from Norwegian Bokmål rosemaler, from rose (“rose”) + male (“to paint”) (cognate with Old Danish malæ (Danish male), Old Norse mála, Old Swedish mala (Swedish mala), from Middle Low German mālen (“to paint”)) + -er (“-er, suffix indicating a person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb”).

Vesterheim, the Norwegian American Museum in Decorah, Iowa, […] sponsored a national exhibition of rosemaling in 1967 and began inviting Norwegian masters to the museum to give workshops to grassroots rosemalers.

2006, Philip Nusbaum, “Rosemaling”, in Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, Andrew [R. L.] Cayton, editors, The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 410:


coal cracker

Our first coal region poll, and what a great one it was! Coal Crackers sure do love their pizza.

1998 October, “Top Ten Lists: Pizza Parlors”, in CoalRegion.com, retrieved 2016-10-29:

Pawel Gobol is Joey's humble father, a coal cracker who worked in the mines since he was 15.

2008, Gene Gomolka, Coal Cracker's Son, Back cover (Google books)

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Mike Stack . . . said his grandfather was a “coal cracker from Girardville.”

2016 March 20, Mark Gilger Jr., “Revelers celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, Irish history at Girardville parade”, in The Republican-Herald, Pennsylvania, US, retrieved 2016-10-29:

(US, slang) A native or established resident of the traditional coal-mining area of northeastern Pennsylvania; a worker in the mines of this region.


cart tart

(colloquial, derogatory) A female flight attendant.


gemwright

Probably a modern calque of Old English ġimwyrhta (“jeweler”), equivalent to gem + wright.

calque

In Valinor, the Elves are masons, gemwrights, and boat-builders, and their wives talented weavers and embroiderers.

2005, Ty Rosenthal, The Arts & Crafts Movement and JRR Tolkien - Ansereg:

Wulltid scratched his head. “I tried. I could have kept that place clear for two years. Three, even. But that Gemwright wanted five years! [...]”

2010, Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven, The Burning City:

A Hapan gemwright whose intricately fitted gems enjoyed a brief but influential vogue a few centuries back.


street sweeper

A person who is employed to sweep streets, pavements, and gutters, keeping them clear of litter.


ticket collector

en-noun

ticket collector (plural ticket collectors)

This left Crewe on time, but was stopped at Stafford, after which we discovered we were being diverted from the Trent Valley main line to the Birmingham line. The ticket collector then appeared and informed passengers that there had been a derailment at Shilton and that we might expect to be 45min late on arrival.

1963 December, “News and Comment: The West Coast main line today”, in Modern Railways, page 368:

A person who checks that passengers on a train etc have a valid ticket, and marks or clips it so that it cannot be used again.


mouldmaker

A tradesman who makes moulds; a manufacturer of moulds.


developmental biologist

developmental biologist (plural developmental biologists)

developmental biology
developmental biology


Lord Privy Seal

(politics, UK) The fifth of the Great Officers of State in the United Kingdom, the position is now considered to be sinecure.


powdermaker

2000, Glenys Crocker, Alan Crocker, Surrey Industrial History Group, Damnable inventions: Chilworth gunpowder and the paper mills of the Tillingbourne
After the sale the powdermakers met to agree on the price of gunpowder and the powdermakers in the Lake District, where mills had been established near Kendal in 1763, were concerned about being undersold in Scotland.

A person or company that makes gunpowder.


Zephyrette

From zephyr (“light wind from the west”) + -ette (suffix forming nouns meaning the female equivalent of something). Zephyr is derived from Latin zephyrus, Zephyrus (“personification of the west wind”), from Ancient Greek Ζέφῠρος (Zéphŭros, “personification of the west wind”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃yebʰ- (“to enter, penetrate; to copulate”). Sense 1 (“on-board hostess”) is derived from the California Zephyr train.

der

The Zephyrette then takes the reservations of the Pullman passengers.

1952, David L. Paden, Problems and Economics of Dining Car Service (unpublished M.B.A. dissertation), Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University, →OCLC, page 163:

A good part of the train's personality lay in the Zephyrette, an on-board factotum who, like an airline stewardess, was a mix of hostess, paramedic, tour guide, secretary, nanny, security guard, purser, public relations agent and ombudswoman.

1995, Henry Kisor, Zephyr: Tracking a Dream Across America, New York, N.Y.: Times Books/Random House, →ISBN; republished Holbrook, Mass.: Adams Publishing Group, 1995, →ISBN, page 18:

Zephyrettes were a fixture on the CZ right to the last day of service on March 22, 1970.

1997, Mike Schafer, Joe Welsh, “Triumvirate Triumph: The California Zephyr”, in Classic American Streamliners, Oscola, Wis.: MBI Publishing Company, →ISBN, image caption, page 68:

"Zephyr and Ezekiel, huh?" Tommy had the courage to ask, shaking their hands. The two wooly-headed, intellectual-looking twins laughed. "Well, our dad's name was Zechariah and our mom worked as a Zephyrette on the California Zephyr passenger train," Ezekiel explained. "So I guess you could say they liked the letter z."

2009 October 6, Sean Phelan, Coming of Age, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 246:

(historical) An on-board hostess on the California Zephyr train, which originally operated between 1949 and 1970.


doo-wopper

A street-corner group of doo-woppers caught his hear.

1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 166:


telepresenter

A medical assistant who is present with the patient during a teleconsultation led by a remote physician.


Eminem

Of her husband, now a successful attorney, she says: "He's no Eminem, but he's not a buck-toothed, tractor-driving white boy either. He's a cool, worldly dude.

2002 February, Hyun Kim, “Head of the Class”, in Vibe, volume 10, number 2:

In an early song that did not end up on his album, I Don't Know, he responded to critics who compared him to the white rapper Eminem. I'm no Eminem / but I'm not wack either / The only reason you compare me to him / Is because I'm not black either.

2007, Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America, →ISBN, page 56:

This is the entry point for all the Eminems, and for all the Eminems to come

2011, Morris Berman, Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline, →ISBN:

Rocky was no Eminem.

2015, Narinder Dhami, Bhangra Babes, →ISBN:

All I know is: I'm no Eminem, and I want nothing to do with a cypher, even though all of these guys (and one chick) are looking at me expectantly like, Why wouldn't dude want to join in?

2016, Allison Glock-Cooper, T. Cooper, Changers, Book Two: Oryon, →ISBN:

(colloquial) A talented rapper, on the same level as the rapper Eminem.


population biologist

en-noun

population biologist (plural population biologists)


evolutionary taxonomist

evolutionary taxonomist (plural evolutionary taxonomists)

A taxonomist who erects taxa based on evolutionary similarities, without requiring that each taxon be a clade.


phyleticist

A taxonomist who uses both cladistics and phenetic data to construct a phylogeny.


craneman

(mining, historical) A boy employed to hoist the corves of coals on to the rolleys with the crane.


head chef

The main chef in a restaurant, in charge of the kitchen and of the team of other chefs.


one-woman band

(music) A woman who plays multiple instruments at once.


special educator

special educator (plural special educators)

special education
special education#English

(education) A teacher who specifically teaches children with special needs; a special education teacher.


differential psychologist

differential psychologist (plural differential psychologists)

differential psychology
differential psychology#English

(psychology) A psychologist who focuses their studies on differential psychology.


Radium Girl

(US, historical) A female factory worker who contracted radiation poisoning from luminous paint (containing radium) used in watch dials in the early 20th century.


monumental mason

monumental mason (plural monumental masons)


welldigger

Some of them are indispensable such as blacksmith, carpenter, barber, shoemaker, potter, washerman, village messenger, etc. while others assist him indirectly, like bricklayers, welldiggers, masons, teachers, weavers, traders, oilmen, agricultural labourers and scavengers.

1990, G. R. Madan, India's Developing Villages, page 16:

For centuries, welldiggers had looked for groundwater and divined where to dig guided by instinct alone.

2017, Orhan Pamuk, The Red-Haired Woman: A novel:


pastry chef

A chef who makes desserts of all kinds, whether or not these actually incorporate pastry.


performance artist

performance artist (plural performance artists)

A person who creates and performs in performance art.


collembologist

The capture is apparently lower in the tropics, at least from what I have experienced as a collembologist.

2013, Eduardo H Rapoport, Areography: Geographical Strategies of Species, page 179:

One who studies springtails (hexapods of the subclass Collembola).


Leonardeschi

/ˌlɪ.ənɑːˈdɛskɪ/

etymologically less correct but possibly more common

/ˌlɪ.ənɑːˈdɛʃɪ/

/lənɑɹˈdɛʃi/

Borrowed from Italian leonardeschi, the masculine plural form of leonardesco (“of or pertaining to Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardesque”), named after the Italian Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) + -esco (“-esque”, suffix forming an adjective or noun indicating relationship, membership or quality).

named-after

In this connexion we may think of the importance of the Lombards, the Leonardeschi, and the Venetians for contemporary northern painting.

1969, Gert von der Osten, Horst Vey, translated by Mary Hottinger, Painting and Sculpture in Germany and the Netherlands 1500–1600 (The Pelican History of Art; Z31), Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, →OCLC:

There are good reasons to think that Caravaggio admired the renaissance art of the Leonardeschi. For this Boy peeling fruit, he may have been thinking specifically of the famous Flora that was painted around 1510 by Francesco Melzi, one of Leonardo's most faithful Milanese students and indeed his legal heir.

2003, Caravaggio & His World: Darkness & Light, Sydney, N.S.W.: Art Gallery of New South Wales; Melbourne, Vic.: National Gallery of Victoria, →ISBN, page 82:

In the first half of the sixteenth century, only the leonardeschi — those painters who undergo the influence of Leonardo and his works — correspond to such needs.

2007, Carlo Pedretti, Margherita Melani, editors, Leonardo Da Vinci: The European Genius: Paintings and Drawings: Exhibition in the Basilica of Koekelberg, Brussels, in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome for the Constitution of the European Community (1957–2007), Foligno, Perugia, Italy: Cartei & Bianchi, →ISBN, page 170, column 1:

A group of artists who worked in the studio of, or under the influence of, Leonardo da Vinci.


waste picker

A person who salvages reusable or recyclable materials thrown away by others to sell or for personal consumption.

拾荒者

person who salvages materials thrown away


teaching assistant

en-noun

teaching assistant (plural teaching assistants)

learning disabilities
learning disability

(education) A person who assists a teacher with instructional responsibilities, often by supporting students with learning disabilities or physical disabilities.


education assistant

education assistant (plural education assistants)


numerical taxonomist

numerical taxonomist (plural numerical taxonomists)

A scientist who uses or promotes numerical taxonomy.


ship chandler

Coordinate term: sutler

A chandler (dealer of supplies) for marine supplies.


sound technician

sound technician (plural sound technicians)

A technician whose job is to assemble, operate and maintain the technical equipment used to record, amplify, enhance, mix or reproduce sound


crunkmeister

From crunk + -meister (suffix indicating an expert on a specified subject).

suffix

In the South, where folks often walk straight off the corner into the congregation, people expect rap to touch on the sacred as well as the profane, though it handles the latter much more convincingly than the former. Pastor Troy flips this equation. On his uneven but occasionally stirring new release, the ATL crunkmeister is at his best when dropping lyrics about the rapture […]

2002, Vibe, volume 10, number 11, [Miamisburg, Oh.?]: Vibe Media Group, Miller Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 162:

The Source Hip-Hop Music Awards returns to South Florida Oct. 10, the magazine officially announced at a news conference in New York Thursday. […] Chicago newcomer Kanye West tops the list of nominees with seven nods. Atlanta rapper Ludacris follows with six; crunkmeister Lil Jon was nominated for four awards.

2004 September 10, Evelyn McDonnell, “Source Awards hop to Miami”, in The Miami Herald, number 362, Miami, Fla.: Miami Herald Media Company, The McClatchy Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4A, column 1:

Lil Jon, Petey, T.I., Trick Daddy, all you thuggin' crunkmeisters, I apologize. A while back, I started listening to Power 92, where crunk currently reigns supreme, and now I'm fucking hooked.

2005 January 6, Brendan Joel Kelley, “Crunk junkie”, in Phoenix New Times, Phoenix, Ariz.: New Times, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-16:

[A] couple of reggae-flavored tracks [from In My Mind by Heather Headley], including the Shaggy-assisted "Rain," and the sweetly nostalgic doo-wop throwback "Back When It Was," which, in a marked stylistic departure, was produced by crunkmeister Lil Jon.

2006, People, volume 65, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 41:

And though his [Juicy J's] sound has definitely diverged from the gritty gangsta rap style he perfected while in Three 6 Mafia, the rubbery-voiced emcee, who now makes upbeat, bouncy party jams, is still every bit the crunkmeister.

2017 February 2, Jessie Schiewe, “Chronicles of the Juice Man: Three 6 Mafia co-founder Juicy J is killing it as a solo artist”, in SF Weekly, San Francisco, Calif.: Clint Reilly Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-09-16:

(music, slang, rare) A performer of crunk music.


cheesewright

As we have already suggested, the high costs and comparative scarcity of skilled cheesewrights and butter-makers placed a burden of work and supervision upon the farmer and his wife that they were less than ever willing to countenance.

2000, Edward John T. Collins, Joan Thirsk, The Agrarian History of England and Wales, page 475:


guest relation officer

en-noun

guest relation officer (plural guest relation officers)


musicaster

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volleybelle

Now a part of the decorated DLSU Lady Spikers, this petite lass already showed glimpses of her skills as she, together with veteran volleybelle Charleen Cruz bagged home second honor merits in the recently concluded UAAP Beach Volleyball tournament...

2010, Green Gallery: Lady Spiker Amanda Villanueva:

(Philippines, sports journalism) A female volleyball player.


lion tamer

A circus performer who interacts with a lion as an entertainment.

oroszlánszelídítő

circus performer who interacts with a lion (or other big cat) as an entertainment


guidance counselor

guidance counselor (plural guidance counselors)


yosi boy

(Philippines, slang) An ambulant male cigarette vendor.


takatak boy

(Philippines, slang) An ambulant male vendor, typically selling candies and cigarettes.


boatperson

boatperson (plural boatpersons or boatpeople)

boatpersons (plural)
boatpeople (plural)


imbongi

imbongi (plural izimbongi or iimbongi or imbongis)

izimbongi (plural)
iimbongi (plural)
imbongis (plural)

Borrowed from Zulu imbongi and Xhosa imbongi. The plural izimbongi is derived from Zulu, while iimbongi is from Xhosa.

Let us consider the contemporary oral poetry of the Xhosa Bantu[…], and its highest form, the praise-poetry of male tradents, who were attached until recently to tribal chiefs. The tradents are imbongi ‘praise poets’ and the genre of their work is the izibongo ‘praise poem.’ “The lines of the imbongi’s oral izibongo do not display either syllabic or quantitative meter … though there is some reason to believe that one may be able to determine certain recurrent intonational patterns that function as meter” ([Jeff] Opland 1975: 194).

1980, M. O'Connor, “Hebrew Verse Structure”, in Hebrew Verse Structure, Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, published 1997, →ISBN, section 1.7.2 (Constriction in Other Languages), page 157:

[…] Mbutuma and Manisi are both "traditional" iimbongi, but Manisi's oral poetry is more historical than Mbutuma's – so that the bearer of a tradition is an individual creative artist even though he shares attributes with other participants in the tradition. […] Few Xhosa iimbongi today are untouched by urbanization, literacy, and exposure to mass media. How have these forces affected the tradition? To what extent can modern iimbongi be considered traditional?

1983, Jeff Opland, “Change in the Tradition”, in Xhosa Oral Poetry: Aspects of a Black South African Tradition (Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture; 7), Cambridge, New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 234:

In the national figures this bawdy laughter seems hardly ever to be present; it is only slyly winked at once in the King's praises in the "pillow" reference, but on the whole it is suppressed or censored out by successive izimbongi.

1991, Liz Gunner and Mafika [Pascal] Gwala, translators and editors, “Introduction: Izibongo, Power, and the Popular Voice”, in Musho!: Zulu Popular Praises (African Historical Sources; no. 3), East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University Press, →ISBN:

Sunday Times Managing Editor, Ray Hartley – a former political correspondent – is brutal about the state of political journalism. He questions the lack of analysis and debate about government policy and dismisses a lot of the writing about President [Thabo] Mbeki and the government as 'hagiography'. While the government may have its media imbongis (praise singers), much of the problem lies with inexperienced political reports and poor newsroom leadership.

2005, Angela Quintal, “Political Reporting”, in Adrian Hadland, editor, Essays on South African Journalism, Cape Town: HSRC Press, published 2006, →ISBN, pages 55–56:

Modern South African film directors and performers as bards, izimbongi or storytellers have only residues of existing 'traditional societies' to bring to the surface. Where primarily oral cultures elaborate their stories within the epic form, fables and extraordinary heroes and fantasies, the izimbongi in The People's Poet and Songololo are more concerned with cultural loss, oppression, colonisation and emancipation.

2006, Keyan G[ray] Tomaselli, “Orality in African Cinema: Reasoning, Representation and Relativism”, in Encountering Modernity: Twentieth Century South African Cinemas (SAVUSA Series; 4), Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers; South Africa: UNISA Press, →ISBN, page 92:

Mandhlakazi provided a description of the dress and actions of izimbongi (praise singers) as they recited and performed praises and told Stuart, / I, Mandhlakazi, once asked a son of Magolwana how it was that the Zulu izimbongi were able to remember the praises of kings to so extraordinary a degree[…]. He said it was because they were given always tripe to eat. Moreover, they used to eat the drug umklele, […]

2015, Elizabeth A. Eldredge, “Oral Traditions in the Reconstruction of South African History”, in Kingdoms and Chiefdoms of Southeastern Africa: Oral Traditions and History, 1400–1830 (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora; 64), Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press; Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 46:

An interesting exception to the generally formal, apprenticeship-based training assumed for the professions is that of the imbongi, or praise-poet, among groups such as the Zulu and Xhosa in southern Africa. The imbongi is in many ways a unique figure in traditional society; his role is part historian, part counselor, part social and political critic. The imbongi fulfills a role similar to that played by the medieval bard, relying both on the established oral tradition and his own ability to improvise in creating the appropriate izibongo (praise-poem) for the occasion.

2018, Timothy Reagan, “‘A Wise Child is Talked to in Proverbs’: Indigenous Educational Thought and Practice in Africa”, in Non-Western Educational Traditions: Local Approaches to Thought and Practice, 4th edition, New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 83:

(chiefly South Africa) A praise singer, a traditional bard in Zulu culture.


phthirapterist

An entomologist who studies the Phthiraptera, or lice.


tardigradologist

Accordingly, requests for specimens were sent to all European tardigradologists.

1977, The Wasmann Journal of Biology - Volumes 35-36:

Unfortunately, extenuating circumstances kept the tardigradologists from meeting in 1983, ...

1987, Roberto Bertolani, Biology of Tardigrades, page 13:

The designation of 'amateur tardigradologist' does not, in any way, infer inferior quality work -- it should be remembered that the early microscopists and many of the great scientists of the past were amateurs by today's criteria.

1994, Ian M. Kinchin, The biology of tardigrades, →ISBN, page 139:

This is probably more an artefact of where marine tardigradologists have been working and collecting rather than any zoogeographic pattern.

2000, Records of the South Australian Museum - Volumes 33-35, page 84:

A biologist who specializes in studying tardigrades.


chiropterist

A zoologist who studies bats (Chiroptera).


hemipterist

An entomologist who studies hemipterans.


hymenopterist

suf

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Hymenoptera</i>

My collecting partner for this trip was long-time friend and hymenopterist Mike Arduser.

2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:

(entomology) An entomologist who studies hymenopterans.


staphylinidologist

An entomologist who studies staphylinid beetles.


paleornithologist

A paleontologist who studies fossil birds.


quadraturist

/ˈkwɒdɹət͡ʃəɹɪst/

From Italian quadraturista. Equivalent to quadrature + -ist.

When the two friends were engaged in decorating the archiepiscopal palace at Ravenna, and at the courts of Parma and Modena, Mitelli alternately assisted the figurist and the quadraturist.

1854, Luigi Antonio Lanzi, The History of Painting in Italy, From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century:

Agostino Mitelli also worked with them as both figurist and quadraturist. Colonna, however, was an extremely capable quadraturist, and he became so specialised that he soon left Il Dentone's studio, setting himself up independently.
It is not a simple task to distinguish which of the two artists painted ceilings or walls in the Rooms, or to whom the activity of figurist or quadraturist should be attributed.

2004, Marilena Mosco, Ornella Casazza, The Museo Degli Argenti:

He had worked with the Bolognese quadraturist Antonio Maria Bernardi, who had served Max Emmanuel at Schloss Lustheim (the hunting lodge connected with Schleissheim) from 1688 to 1689.

2016, Daniel Fulco, Exuberant Apotheoses: Italian Frescoes in the Holy Roman Empire:


gyprocker

/ˈd͡ʒɪpɹɒkə(ɹ)/

A laborer who works with gyprock, plaster and drywall.


pump attendant

Someone who works at a petrol station filling up vehicles with petrol


tea lady

A woman employed to provide beverages and snacks in an office or other work environment.


taxi uncle

From taxi + uncle; a respectful form of address to an older man.

2000, May 15, soc.culture.singapore, Taxi driver, in Google Groups
pretty interesting to yak with these taxi uncles...sometimes they can also give you tips on where and when the traffic police ambush with their speed detectors

2003, May 13, soc.culture.singapore, Do you want to drive a Taxi ?, in Google Groups
I think you better get feedback from the taxi uncles....they complain the company sometime delay payment, refuse those with illegible/corrected amount even though coutersigned....etc

2008, Politikus, Taxi fare hike, drastic drop in demand., in Google Groups
I talked with a taxi uncle who has been driving a cab since 1982.

“Taxi Uncle,” said Valli, coming to her senses, “can't you take another route?”

2009 May 12, Preeta Samarasan, Evening Is The Whole Day, page 131:

“Then I will call the taxi uncle to take us back to the hospital,” she says and starts to walk down the road. I grab her hand and bring her back to face me. “Shh! Don't make a noise,” I whisper to her. “I don't have money for the taxi uncle. I have to ...

2009 July 21, Ru Freeman, in A Disobedient Girl: A Novel, page 254

Would a taxi uncle know the exact location if I tell him Sungei Buluh R&R?

2011, Andy Leong, “Latest Trip's programe & Map to the Restaurant.”, in Google Groups:

A taxi uncle will, more often than not, have a strong opinion as to where the best laksa/chicken rice/kway teow is to be had. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatlife/11076166/Why-getting-to-know-a-Singapore-taxi-uncle-is-an-expat-essential.html

2014 September 5, Rowena Michaels, “Why getting to know a Singapore 'taxi uncle' is an expat essential”, in The Telegraph (United Kingdom):

In Singapore, taxi drivers are more familiarly known as “Taxi Uncles”…The Taxi Uncle is notorious for cutting lanes without signalling, violent braking at the road shoulder to pick up / drop off passengers, reckless driving, changing shifts, …

2015 June 16, Ludger Hovestadt, Vera Bühlmann, A Quantum City: Mastering the Generic, page 183:

He is experienced and knows the best spots to pick up passengers, as well as the unspoken rules for managing difficult customers, but Mr Dai is not what you’d call a “taxi uncle”.

2016 March 11, Kenneth Lim, "Freedom, flexible hours drive younger Singaporeans to taxi industry", in Today Online (Singapore)http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/freedom-flexible-hours-drive-younger-singaporeans-taxi-industry?page=1

In recent years, a new breed of taxi drivers has emerged-these folks are much younger than the stereotypical "taxi uncle"

2016 May 13, Joanne Poh, “3 popular jobs for Singaporeans who want to be their own boss”, in AsiaOne (Singapore):

You chance upon a rather talkative taxi uncle who is very interested in your lifestyle… Understand that the taxi uncle is just showing an interest…

2016 September 15, Kelly Jackson-Nash, CultureShock! Singapore:

With more than three decades of driving under his belt, this "taxi uncle" has seen the changes in one of Singapore's most iconic professions, which began in the 1930s, and is facing its greatest disruption now with competition from ride-hailing apps.

2017 August 17, Adrian Lim, “The Live They Live: From taxi uncle to Grab drive”, in The Straits Times (Singapore):

(Singapore) A male taxi driver in Singapore.


bus captain

There is hardly any justification for a fare hike just to pay for and retain the bus captains, which was what SBS's Mrs Cheng had used as a justification.

2001, Sintercom, Not ST Forum: Bus fare hike, Google Groups

The bus captain informed her that the journey cost $1.60.

2011, Ruth Cheng, TODAY (Singapore), page 13:

This includes an annual wage supplement and a year-end annual variable bonus in place of the initial ex-gratia and sign-on bonuses given to Chinese bus captains on two-year contracts like the one He was on.

Go-Ahead Singapore, the country’s fourth public bus operator, has raised the basic starting pay of its local bus captains by about 4.6 per cent, in a move that comes on the back of recent pay hikes announced by two of its rivals.

2016, Kenneth Cheng, TODAY (Singapore) 1 July (Online)

The 34-year-old started his training to be a bus captain in February and has been driving with SBS Transit since April this year.

(Singapore) A bus driver who also functions as a bus conductor along with other duties such as ensuring proper care for the bus.


bus conductor

A person on a bus who collects fares and issues tickets


bus conductress

en-noun

bus conductress (plural bus conductresses)


citizen scientist

citizen scientist (plural citizen scientists)

But now the stage is set for the return of the amateur, in a twenty-first century incarnation, as the citizen scientist. The popular spirit is willing. Citizen scientists already comprise the vanguard of a new nature movement, one as focused on […]

2012, Janis L. Dickinson, Rick Bonney, Citizen Science: Public Participation in Environmental Research, Cornell University Press, →ISBN:

As a citizen scientist, you may want to submit well-documented photographs to the website Odonata Central to increase the information available about where and when species turn up in this country. If you see migrating dragonflies, you can […]

2014, Ann Cooper, Dragonflies: Q&A Guide: Fascinating Facts About Their Life in the Wild, Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 94:

An amateur (or nonprofessional) scientist; especially, a person who collects data from the natural world that can be used by scientists.


data scientist

Goldman is a good example of a new key player in organizations: the “data scientist.” It’s a high-ranking professional with the training and curiosity to make discoveries in the world of big data. The title has been around for only a few years. (It was coined in 2008 by one of us, D.J. Patil, and Jeff Hammerbacher, then the respective leads of data and analytics efforts at LinkedIn and Facebook.) But thousands of data scientists are already working at both start-ups and well-established companies.

2012 October, Thomas H. Davenport, D.J. Patil, “Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century”, in Harvard Business Review:

The data scientist is responsible for mining the organization's data—structured and unstructured data that is both internal and external of the organization—to uncover new insights about the business. Data scientists are data hoarders, seeking […]

2013, Bill Schmarzo, Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 41:

(job, sciences) A scientist involved in data science.


lokun

From Hokkien 老君 (ló-kun), from Malay dukun (“shaman or medicine man”). Doublet of dukun.

What they say about the doctors, generalist and the specialist: […] The specialist(aka tua lokun) knows more and more about less and less until eventually he knows everything about nothing.

2006 October 30, kaupehkaubu, “Malaysia A Police State? Is Mahathir Serious?”, in Sangkancil (Usenet):

Anything more than SGD$30, they would complain: “Wah, this lo kun (doctor) jing qwee (very expensive)!”

2012 October 31, Chang Mei Bin, “The Testimony of the Late Dr Richard Teo, the Singaporean Millionaire Plastic Surgeon”, in SacredHeart1984 (Usenet):

The lo-kun stared steadily at the computer screen, his finger still, uncertain what to do, unable to understand if some tragic meaning lay behind that long coughing fit.

2015, Gwee Li Sui, Singathology: 50 New Works by Celebrated Singaporean Writers:

(Singapore and Malaysia, informal, colloquial) doctor; physician


process worker

The term control panel refers to the instrumentation console in a central control room through which process information is communicated to the process worker and via which the worker changes the state of the process.

2010, CCPS (Center for Chemical Process Safety), Guidelines for Preventing Human Error in Process Safety, →ISBN, page 121:

The process worker, explains Gorz ([19] 111ff.) citing Ilnox, is the by-product of computerization, which represents a new interface between the production process and the worker. The skilled and unskilled worker of the production line will cease to have any physical interaction with the product, but will now focus mainly on controlling and maintaining the production process.

2016, Sabina Jeschke, Christian Brecher, Houbing Song, Industrial Internet of Things: Cybermanufacturing Systems, →ISBN, page 563:

For example, the tradesman may decide to abandon his trade meantime because he can make a better living as a process worker or even as a labourer.

2017, Paul Lafitte, Social Structure and Personality in the Factory, →ISBN, page 78:

The knowledge worker may have a supervisor, but he or she is never supervised in the same way that a manual or process worker is supervised.

2017, David I. Ben-Tovim, Process Redesign for Health Care Using Lean Thinking, →ISBN:

An unskilled or semiskilled worker who is responsible for running processing machinery in a factory.


Playboy Bunny

As a result, the fifteen women blur, dissolve into one—a big Playboy''' bunny, masochist to the tip of her Pucci tail, hopping from one key sexual event to another so that life itself seems unlived.

1972 July 31, Linda Wolfe, “Luce Women [review of Jack Olsen, The Girls in the Office (1972)]”, in Clay S[chuette] Felker, editor, New York, volume 2, number 14, New York, N.Y.: New York Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 55, column 3:

Terri Bryant, a former member of the singing group, The Fifth Dimension, always wondered what it would be like to be a Playboy Bunny hostess when she performed with that popular singing group at the Playboy Clubs in Lake Geneva, Wis., and Great Gorge, N.J. […] Ms. Bryant had her dream come true at the Playboy Club in Chicago[…].

1980 April 3, “Former Fifth Dimension has Dream Come True: Night as a Playboy Bunny”, in John H[arold] Johnson, editor, Jet, volume 58, number 3, Chicago, Ill.: Johnson Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 61:

The Playboy bunny symbol is widely used throughout the Bebo network in both skins and other applications. Marie's extensive use of the Playboy bunny merchandise both off and online, indicates the normalization, banality even, of the Playboy bunny, marketed at teen and tween girls, illustrating the trend towards 'porno-chic' for these age groups[…].

2011, Jessica Ringrose, “Are You Sexy, Flirty, or a Slut?: Exploring ‘Sexualization’ and How Teen Girls Perform/Negotiate Digital Sexual Identity on Social Networking Sites”, in Rosalind Gill, Christina Scharff, editors, New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →ISBN, part II (Negotiating Postfeminist Media Culture), page 108:

By the mid-1960s Hefner had amassed a fortune of $100 million, including a lasciviously appointed forty-eight-room mansion staffed by thirty Playboy "bunnies" ("fuck like bunnies" is a phrase we have largely left behind, but most people at the time caught the allusion).

2012, David Farber, The Sixties: From Memory to History, page 247:

She [Maria Richwine] studied dancing and for a while worked as a Playboy Bunny. While visiting England she decided to become an actress.

2014, Frank Javier Garcia Berumen, “The 1970s”, in Latino Image Makers in Hollywood: Performers, Filmmakers and Films since the 1960s, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 102:

Female waitresses, called "Playboy Bunnies," wore bushy cotton tails, rabbit ears, and bowties. […] Playboy Bunnies are not sex workers; however, anecdotal evidence demonstrates that some have been paid for their time during which they voluntarily performed sexual favors for guests at Playboy's lounge and mansion. Playboy Bunnies may be photographed for Playboy; and several Playboy Playmates have dressed in Playboy Bunny costumes while appearing in magazine editorials.

2015, Carmen M. Cusak, “Bestiality in Art and Culture”, in Animals, Deviance, and Sex, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, pages 62–63:

A waitress at a Playboy Club, characteristically dressed in a strapless teddy, black pantyhose, cuffs, a collar and bowtie, bunny ears, and a short, fluffy tail.


tocologist

One who studies tocology; an obstetrician.


rhinoplast

This prohibition was already present in Leviticus 21:18, where it is written that men with charum, that is, men with flat noses, cannot become priests in the temple. In canon law the loss of a nose could plausibly mean the termination of a marriage. Would a new nose reinstate one, the rhinoplast Otto Hildebrand mused a few centuries later?

2015, Valeria Finucci, The Prince's Body: Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine:


houngenikon

The houngenikon thereupon starts off the song, the drums and the chorus join in and when it is ended the houngan inquires: “Are you satisfied?”

1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 51:

The drums changed and the Houngenikon came dancing on to the floor, holding a vessel filled with some burning liquid from which sprang blue and yellow flames.

Sometimes Bienaimé nods in the direction of a particularly noisy racket, and the houngenikon flicks at those kids with his whip.

I was told that the Vodou priest Cesar had had a serious fight with Nicole, the ounjenikon, mistress of song, of his temple.

1995, Karen McCarthy Brown, in Cosentino (ed.), Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, South Sea International Press 1998, p. 211

(voodoo) The leader of singing in a voodoo ceremony.


arms-bearer

As for women, only Venus, stripped of her femininity as arms-bearer for Caesar, and the virginal goddess Vesta are present (4.1.46 and 4.1.21).

2005, Ronnie Ancona, Ellen Greene, Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry, →ISBN, page 316:

And the men of the outpost called to Jonathan and his arms-bearer: "Come on up to us, and we will show you a thing! "

2009, Hillel I. Millgram, The Invention of Monotheist Ethics - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 128:

His arms-bearer answered him, "Do whatever you like. You go first, I am with you, whatever you decide."

2014, Adele Berlin, Marc Zvi Brettler, The Jewish Study Bible, →ISBN:

Ilos would stand arms-bearer for our father and Drimios for Tros' favorite heketas.

Lamenting the fact that "scarcely an inch of the page of history has been appropriated" to the memory of the black arms-bearers of the Revolutionary War, Henry Highland Garnet sought to redress the balance in an address before the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1840.

1988, Benjamin Quarles, Black mosaic: essays in Afro-American history and historiography:

An important rule of heraldry (often overlooked by makers of historical dramas) is that only the arms-bearer could wear or use his own arms and fly his own banner and standard - his retainers and followers could only use his livery colours and his badge or badges on pennons and flags.

1990, William G. Crampton, The Complete Guide to Flags, page 15:

By setting rules specifying whom arms-bearers were not allowed to attack, the kinds of property they were not allowed to touch, and days of the week and seasons of the year when they were not allowed to use arms, the peace council regulations also gave the Church the authority to determine who could employ arms, for what purpose, on whose command, against whom, and when.

2002, Tomaz Mastnak, Crusading Peace, →ISBN:

An armed fighter, such as a soldier or knight; one who carries and uses a weapon, as opposed to a member of the support personnel.


linguister

Probably from Portuguese lingüista (“linguist”) reinterpreted as linguist + -er.

One day a linguister, a native commission agent, arrived in a trading canoe, and stated that […] a prince some way up the river […] had [said] […] that if I sent him five longs and five gallons of rum he would […] let my trade pass.

1887, Richard Edward Dennett, chapter 4, in Seven Years Among the Fjort: Being and English Trader’s Experiences in the Congo District, London: S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, pages 80–81:

A “chief linguister” went along in order to act as a broker for the ship’s captain or supercargo.

1991, Philip D. Curtin, chapter 3, in The Tropical Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade, Washington, DC: American Historical Association, page 34:

(archaic) Synonym of interpreter, particularly

(historical) A native agent facilitating European trade in East and Central Africa in colonial contexts.


Philippinist

A linguist who studies Philippine languages.


mining engineer

mining engineer (plural mining engineers)


Baul

Baul songs

One of a class of a syncretic religious sect of hardy, mystic minstrels from rural Bengal.


Tungusologist

As the handwriting is quite good, the photogravured reproduction made under the auspices of the Minzokugaku Kyökai (Ethnological Society), in Tokyo, in 1944, with the title "A Tungus Dictionary, Tungus-Russian and Russian-Tungus, photogravured from the Manuscripts, by the Late Prof. S. M. Shirokogoroff is an extremely valuable aid to the Tungusologist […]

Today, when the entire Tungusic territory is accessible to scholars from all over the world, it is possible and, in fact, necessary for all Tungusologists, domestic or foreign, to collect and exchange fresh field information.

1997, Hiroshi Shōji, Juha Janhunen, Northern minority languages: problems of survival, page 184:

They were taken down by V. A. Avrorin, a distinguished Tungusologist and linguist, during an expedition in 1948.

2000, Lauri Honko, Textualization of Oral Epics, page 145:


Dietman

A newly elected Dietman, Ozawa Ichirō, said that “my energy is now devoted to two things: handling requests from my constituency and learning how the Diet works. […]”

1980, John Creighton Campbell, Contemporary Japanese Budget Politics:


food artist

Now instead of pictures of the product usually enhanced by food artists, the consumer can actually see what they are buying. The product speaks for itself as it is very appealing and appetizing.

2007, Milling & Baking News, volume 86, numbers 21-26, page 45:

A person employed to arrange food in an attractive presentation to be photographed for use on packaging etc.


defense attorney

defense attorney (plural defense attorneys)

辯護律師 /辩护律师

a lawyer who represents defendants in legal proceedings

A lawyer who represents defendants in legal proceedings.

A lawyer who regularly represents defendants who have insurance and is chosen by the insurance company.

A lawyer who regularly represents criminal defendants.


walk-on girl

/ˌwɔːk ɒn ˈɡɜːl/

/ˌwɔk ɑn ˈɡɝl/

/ˌwɑk ɑn ˈɡɝl/

Again anticipating opportunity, Tommy Cox jets to Alaska and books Sarah Palin to be a walk-on girl at the 2009 Desert Classic final.

2010, Paul Siegel, chapter 7, in 2008: The Year in Darts, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 39:

His then girlfriend, Bernice Grey was a minor model turned darts walk-on girl. Jack's checklist-life could not have got much better compared to his childhood ambitions.

2012, Mark Wollacott, “Blank Jack (Teaser)”, in 108 Breaths, Circencester, Gloustershire: Wyrd Works, →ISBN, page 112:

The rah-rah girls dancing onstage were shaking their thing as Phil wobbled his way down the runway flanked by a Dutch walk-on girl dressed like a Thunderbirds pilot, all enhancements bouncing to the Eurobeat, as the surgeon intended. Then it was Mike's turn. His girl was dressed in a lime-green minidress and fat gold rope chain (subconsciously channelling Run DMC), which wasn't the only plastic on show. Neither walk-on girls I recognise. They must be the continental ones.

2017, King Adz, “Continental Darts”, in Fear and Loathing on the Oche: A Gonzo Journey through the World of Championship Darts, London: Yellow Jersey Press, →ISBN:

Flanked by a minder and a walk-on girl he strode down the walkway, hands in prayer, eyes turned heavenward.

2017, Matthew E. Pointon, “Holy Mass”, in Short Stories Volume 2 (2006–2010), [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu, →ISBN, page 179:

Walk-on girls will no longer be used by the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) after talks with broadcasters. The long-established practice of women escorting male players to the stage will be abandoned, starting with this weekend's Masters in Milton Keynes. […] But walk-on girl Charlotte Wood, who says darts accounts for 60 per cent of her income, says her rights "are being taken away". […] The Women's Sport Trust tweeted: "We applaud the Professional Darts Corporation moving with the times and deciding to no longer use walk-on-girls. Motor racing, boxing and cycling … your move."

2018 January 27, “Darts: PDC to Scrap Walk-on Girls after Broadcaster Talks”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2018-06-21:

(darts) A woman who escorts a player to the stage at a darts event.


makanga

In the Nairobi City Council today, we have many councillors who were makangas. I hope that in future the Opposition will see it fit to elect people of high calibre as councillors rather than bring in the kind of makanga councillors we have today, who have contributed to the decay in the City of Nairobi.

1994 July 5, Prof. Saitoti, “Report, Parliamentary Debates”, in Kenya National Assembly Official Record, volume 5, number 13, page 376:

Sometimes there are several matatus en route to the same destination, so makangas will “fight”over you. One may even grab your luggage and force you to follow him to his matatu.

2009, Joseph R. Oppong, Esther D. Oppong, Kenya, →ISBN, page 79:

One owner who operated on a route known for its 'dot.com' youth stated 'Those who call passengers cannot get anybody if they are dirty and badly dressed, makangas (touts) must be clean and well dressed; wear bling blings and sagging jeans.'

2015, Roger Behrens, Dorothy McCormick, David Mfinanga, Paratransit in African Cities: Operations, Regulation and Reform, →ISBN:

(Kenya) A tout; one who is hired to convince passengers to take a specific taxi or matatu.


parandero

On the Caribbean coast, the Ganfuna communities are known for their paranda, most of whose practitioners (paranderos) are fairly elderly and live in Belize.

2002, Moon handbooks: Guatemala, page 63:

The possibility, however remote, was enough for one parandero to point this out as part of my education into the tradition. In retrospect, during the first night of parang in 1989, I learned far more than chords and rhythms.

2008, Kevin K. Birth, Bacchanalian Sentiments: Musical Experiences and Political Counterpoints in Trinidad., →ISBN:

Few people know this, but at a time when many young people were turning away from Garifuna traditions, Andy's very first recording was a song on Traditional Music of the Garifuna (Black Carib) of Belize (Folkways, 1 982), with late parandero Gabaga Williams on guitar, backed by a female chorus and Garifuna drummers.

The paranderos, the singers, had arrived.

2016, Elizabeth Nunez, Even in Paradise, →ISBN, page 263:

Paul Nabor was a legendary Garifuna parandero from Punta Gorda, Wilfred Peters was a Creole brukdown accordionist from Belize City, and Florencio Mess is a traditional Maya harpist living in the farming village of San Pedro Columbia.

2016, Alex Egerton, Paul Harding, Lonely Planet Belize, →ISBN:

(Caribbean) A man who performs parang music.


quarter-miler

(athletics) An athlete who specialises in running quarter mile races (or the equivalent 400 metres)


sheep farmer

A farmer with a flock of sheep; a shepherd.


chicken farmer

A farmer who keeps or works with chickens.


babbitter

Many expert babbitters heat their boxes and shafts to a temperature of about 180° before pouring, which insures them against cold sheets, and generally produces a much finer bearing surface and a more perfect casting.

1907, Albert L. Clough, The Operation, Care and Repair of Automobiles, page 295:


chauffeur driver

chauffeur driver (plural chauffeur drivers)


mineowner

Someone (person or corporation) who owns a mine.


mosaist

A person who creates mosaics, a mosaicist.


Neutral Paralympic Athletes

Neutral Paralympic Athletes at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

neutral Paralympic athletes
neutral Paralympic athletes#English

Neutral Paralympic Athlete
Neutral Paralympic Athlete#English

Alternative form of neutral Paralympic athletes; plural of Neutral Paralympic Athlete


electrotechnician

Someone who specializes in electrotechnology.


electrical engineer

electrical engineer (plural electrical engineers)

Back-formation from electrical engineering.

back-form

electrical engineering
electrical engineering#English

Someone who specializes in electrical engineering.


colinguist

The poverty of the Telengana region contrasted with the relative affluence of the Nizam and Hyderabad City; the absence of colinguists in the state administration further reminded Telugu speakers of their inferior status.

1980, Claude Emerson Welch, Anatomy of Rebellion, page 254:

After much cogitation, they determine that even making free with possible worlds would not crush this belief, whether their own, or their colinguist's of whatever rank or station.

2003, John Woods, Paradox and Paraconsistency, page 303:

Atlantic ethnicities were specifically negotiated responses to Atlantic circumstances; sometimes one's coreligionists and colinguists were the most advantageous group through which to organize—but not always, or even often, given the radical dispersal and isolation of the individuals captured in Africa.

2015, Joseph C. Miller, The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History, page 195:


tractor driver

One who drives a tractor. (This entry is a translation hub.)


tractorist

According to data from the Ministry of Agriculture, in 2006 large farms employed less than 42 percent of the number of agricultural specialists as in 1990, 19 percent the number of workers in animal husbandry, and 25 percent the number of tractorists and machinists as in 1990.⁶⁷

2013, Stephen K. Wegren, “Agriculture”, in Stephen K. Wegren, editor, Return to Putin's Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain, 5th edition, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 223:


benchrester

Accuracy folks (benchresters, varminters, etc.) lean decidedly towards the Remington. Its tubular design allows it to be chucked in a lathe and "hot-rodded" very easily.

1997 December 23, Marcus [username], “Re: New Pre '64 or 700 action?”, in rec.guns (Usenet):

One who takes part in benchrest shooting.


killcow

Of all occupations that now adays are used / I would not be a butcher, for that's to be refused; / For whatever is gotten, or whatever is gained, / He shall be call'd Kill-cow, and so shall be named.

c. 15th century, anonymous author, Old Ballad; quoted in Nares, Robert, Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard, Wright, Thomas, A Glossary; or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to Customs, Proverbs, etc., which have been thought to require illustration in the works of English Authors, Particularly Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, new edition, volume 2, London: Reeves and Turner, 1888, page 483:

And how do I look now? Like one that was begotten under a butcher's stall, I warrant, and born in a slaughter-house? I know there's never a Kill-cow i' th' city becomes a woollen apron better than I do.

c. 1636, anonymous author, The London Chanticleers, scene 4; A Select Collection of Old English Plays, 4th edition, New York: Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1964:

Muster his arrant braveries together, and where such a terrible kill-cow, or such a vengeable bull-beggar, to deal withal?

1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierce's Supererogation; or, A New Praise of the Old Ass, published 1815, page 84:

(obsolete, figuratively) A violent person; a bully; a brutal or indiscriminate killer.


killcalf

With any summe you are afraid to lose / But in the night, but then take heed of those / Base Padding Rascalls, for their kill-calfe law / I am not priuy to, I neuer saw / Them, nor their actions, then I cannot show / How to preuent the thing I doe not know.

1628, John Clavell, A Recantation of an Ill Led Life, page 35:

Sir Francis Drake's ship at Deptford, my Lord Mayor's barge, and divers secret and unsuspected places, and there they make private shambles with kill-calf cruelty, and sheep slaughtering murder, to the abuse of Lent, the deceiving of the informers, and the great grief of every zealous fishmonger.

1630, John Taylor, “Jack A Lent: His Beginning and Entertainment”, in Works of John Taylor, the Water Poet, London: Reeves and Turner, published 1876, pages 12–13:

(obsolete, figuratively) A violent person.


quadrathlete

An athlete who takes part in a quadrathlon.


sawman

[…] In the very furthest part
A clearing, lately cut, circled a sawmill,
A little shack that buzzed until it shook,
And breathed rankly of elm. I walked around;
The other side was open, whence I watched
The fat back of the sawman as he fed.

1924, Mark Van Doren, “Javelins”, in Collected Poems, 1922-1938, New York: Henry Holt, pages 18–19:

Early in the century, Momma […] sold lunches to the sawmen in the lumberyard […] and the seedmen at the cotton gin […]

1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 1, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 4:

A good sawman can take out eight cords a day, but Frank, driven by the knot of Jackson anger and wildness that drove all his people, could do more.

1988, Charlie Smith, chapter 7, in Shine Hawk, New York: Pocket Books, page 219:

A man who operates a saw, especially to cut timber.


discaire

From English disc (“vinyl gramophone or phonograph record”) + French -aire (suffix forming adjectives or nouns), modelled after disquaire. Disc is derived from French disque (“disk, record”), from Latin discus (“discus, quoit; dish shaped like a discus; disc of a sundial”), from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disc, quoit; dish; round mirror; reliquary”), probably of Pre-Greek origin.

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[I]n the winter he used to go out dancing at five in the morning, and why? Because then the crowd had gone, the discaire was no longer playing for them, but for his friends, and that was the best dancing.

1978, Andrew Holleran, chapter 1, in Dancer from the Dance: […] (A Plume Book), New York, N.Y.: New American Library, published October 1986, →ISBN, page 25:

There was no one word to describe the variegated music we spent the night with. It was distinct enough for the discaire to begin a set quietly, build gradually to a climax, then let you down to start all over again. Do you remember that vanished custom?

1978 December, Andrew Holleran, “Dark Disco: A Lament”, in Christopher Street, volume 3, number 5, New York, N.Y.: That New Magazine, →ISSN, →OCLC; republished in Michael Denneny, Charles Ortleb, and Thomas Steele, editors, The Christopher Street Reader, New York, N.Y.: Perigee Books, 1983 (1984 printing), →ISBN, page 74:

While the selection of tracks was a pretty accurate reflection of what was being played in discotheques at the time— [...] the "mixing" was pretty appalling (the songs just scrunched together as if they were on a crowded bus and there was no DJ credited on the album, not that any self-respecting discaire would have wanted to be associated with it) despite the claim that the album was "tight and distinctive … professional and polished … never contrived or stylized."

2005, Peter Shapiro, Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco, New York, N.Y.: Faber and Faber, →ISBN:

The DJ booth was built in a glass elevator so the discaires could play for four different dancefloors at once, gliding from one to another as they selected their tunes.

2006, Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton, “Balearic Bryllyant”, in Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey, updated edition, New York, N.Y.: Headline Book Publishing, →ISBN:

The most famous club, Le Discotheque (French for "The Record Library"), opened on rue de la Huchette [in Paris] in 1941. With a discaire, or disc jockey, spinning jazz records all night long, the main attraction was dancing. Thumbing their noses at the occupying Reich, Le Discotheque and other underground clubs opened their doors to blacks and homosexuals, the same groups that would first embrace disco music 30 years later.

2007, “Why Disco Happened”, in Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Plunges into Music (Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader), e-book edition, Ashland, Or.: Portable Press/The Bathroom Readers’ Institute, Printers Row Publishing Group, published November 2011, →ISBN:

A third, a discaire, also died; "That's absolutely the last disco funeral I'll ever attend," my friend reported. "You do know, don't you, that they played all his greatest tapes at the funeral."

2014, Edmund White, “New York City”, in States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 275:

(dance, music) Alternative spelling of disquaire (“disc jockey”)


wanzam

An itinerant barber in parts of Africa, especially one that performs circumcisions.


loctician

Consultation with a natural hair specialist or dreadlocks specialist (loctician) is recommended prior to starting the locking process.

2016, Crystal Aguh, Ginette A. Okoye, Fundamentals of Ethnic Hair: The Dermatologist's Perspective, page 44:

Of course, there are more informal ways to get and maintain dreadlocks than to book a more or less professional loctician.

2021, Maja Tabea Jerrentrup, A Twisted Style, page 68:

A hairdresser who styles the hair into dreadlocks.


biathloner

What did you tell me you used to call those other biathloners who tried to shoot without really aiming?

1986, Bart Davis, Takeover, →ISBN, page 100:

There was the case of the Finnish biathloner Yrjo Salpakari, who got so excited by the sight of an eight-point buck crossing the trail that he plugged it with a single shot.

1998 March-April, “Japan Redux”, in Skiing, volume 50, number 7:

As attractive and as personable as she is, she is a biathloner.

2009, Dana Stabenow, Whisper to the Blood, →ISBN:


musaharati

(Islam) A person who beats a drum to wake Muslims for suhur.


health worker

A person who works in the health sector.


mystery guest

For example, an amusement park may hire an outside marketing firm to send a mystery guest to the park to evaluate his or her experiences with the park's sales and service employees.

2007, Ken Kaser, Dotty B. Oelkers, Sports and Entertainment Marketing, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 111:

Another consideration is setting up the program to avoid departmental rivalries and bias by applying objective measures of effectiveness. For example, to check on frontdesk performance, the mystery guest can record how long the clerk took to answer the phone.

1995, Time Sharing Institute, Worldex Corporation, Vacation Industry Review: A Publication of the Time Sharing Institute, The Institute, page 103:

A mystery guest check by means of e-mail inquiries sent to selected tourism organizations was undertaken to determine the response behaviour and breadth of information provided.

2013, Noel Scott, Eric Laws, Knowledge Sharing and Quality Assurance in Hospitality and Tourism, Routledge, →ISBN:

(marketing, business) A person hired by a company to pose as a customer in order to evaluate the quality of its service.

Guess who will be our mystery guest this week.

On this show the celebrity guest came out dressed in a costume that hid his or her identity. Based on the costume the panel asked questions until they figured out the identity of the guest. The mystery guest in this sentence is dressed as Cap'n Andy, the captain in Jerome Kern's classic Show Boat, and the set was the deck of a paddle-wheel steamer.

2009, William Shatner, Up Till Now, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 158:

(television) A guest star whose identity is kept secret.


assemblagist

(art) One who constructs assemblages (a form of 3D collage).


mad-doctor

(obsolete) A physician who treats the insane.


cane cutter

1838, Joseph Sturge and Thomas Harvey, The West Indies in 1837, London: Hamilton, Adams & Co., Chapter 3, “Antigua,” p. 46,
[…] if the supply of canes slackened at the mill, the field driver was flogged for not flogging the cane cutters.

A college-educated Lenval wanted to know how so many white people come to speak so bad—low class and coarse as cane cutters.

2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 12, in Small Island, London: Review, page 140:

A worker who harvests sugar cane on a sugar plantation.


barbershopper

(informal) A performer of barbershop music.


cyberscientist

A scientist who carries out cyberscience.


student teacher

en-noun

student teacher (plural student teachers)

A teacher-in-training who is teaching classes under the supervision of a teacher or trainer.