cowpuncher

The miscellaneous setting of horses, dogs, saddles, wagons, guns, and cow-punchers' paraphernalia oppressed the metropolitan eye of the wrecked sportsman.

1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 174, column 1:

"They might keep you in jail six months before trial, that's a scheme this new prosecutor's got to break a man and make him so weak he'll convict himself. My advice to you is keep out of it. A cowpuncher's got no business to set up as a killer in these degenerate times, Gustin; that's a luxurious distinction only a man with money can afford. Let that feller go. If he deserves killin', somebody'll come along in time and do it, and save you the trouble and expense."

1923, George Washington Ogden, “Chapter 1”, in The Baron of Diamond Tail:


flag officer

(US military, informal) In addition to naval officers of Navy and the Coast Guard, a general officer in the Army, Marines, or Air Force with the rank of brigadier general or higher.


janitress

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curler

The captain sent a curler into the top corner of the net.

Lampard was replaced by Kalou but the substitute immediately gave the ball to Jonas, whose 25-yard curler was tipped wide by Cech.

2011 September 28, Jon Smith, “Valencia 1-1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:

Liverpool were energised at the start of the second half, with Curtis Jones shaping a curler just past the far post.

2024 February 4, David Hytner, “Arsenal ignite title hopes as Gabriel Martinelli punishes Liverpool error”, in The Guardian:

(soccer) A pass or a shot of the ball which swerves.

Oft considered the most even playing field on which to measure surf mastery, Slater’s innovative machine is a barrel-synthesizing environment and engineering feat. In a single round, The Wave produces a 6-foot curler capable of traveling 2,300 feet for up to one gnarly minute.

2021 August 25, Jilli Cluff, “Kelly Slater’s Artificial Wave Will Crown ‘The Ultimate Surfer’ on Hulu”, in GearJunkie:

There’s the mesmeric, thrumming beat. (Sound very much “on” for this one.) Dark purples and roiling seas under heavy storms. Then Manuel, barreling perfect curler after perfect curler.

2023 March 18, Sam Anderson, “Weekend Warm-Up: Liquid Lines, Entrancing Tunes, Mesmerizing Moments in ‘MALIA’”, in Explorersweb:

(surfing) A wave which breaks with a barrel


behaviorist

One who studies behavior of humans or animals.


orthoepist

/ɔːˈθəʊɪˌpɪst/

/ˈɔːθəʊˌiːpɪst/

/ɔɹˈθoʊəpɪst/

/ˈɔɹθoʊˌɛpɪst/

An expert at orthoepy: a person who studies the pronunciation of words, especially (historical) one of the orthoepists, 16th- and 17th-century linguists who tried to establish standard English pronunciations and spellings.


seamster

From Middle English semster, semestre, from Old English sēamestre (“seamstress”), equivalent to seam + -ster. Cognate with Scots semistar, semstar (“seamstress”).

A person who sews clothes professionally


tax collector

After the assessment has been made, the file passes to the tax collector.

One who has the responsibility for collecting taxes.

հարկահավաք

one who has the responsibility for collecting taxes


phonetician

(linguistics) A dialectologist; a person who studies regional differences in speech sounds.


phonologist

(linguistics) A person who specializes in phonology, the functional use of sounds in language.


physiologist

A person who studies or specializes in physiology.


percussionist

percussion instrument
percussion instrument

A trained musician who plays percussion instruments, as opposed to a drummer who lacks formal training.


haematologist

A scientist, usually a medical doctor, who specializes in haematology.

hematòleg

scientist who specializes in haematology


semantician

One who studies semantics, the science of meaning in words.


pageboy

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A young male attendant at a wedding, generally between five and ten years of age.

brudedreng

young male attendant at a wedding ceremony


beek

Audio (US)


boilermaker

/ˈbɔɪləɹmeɪkɚ/

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The sole boilermaker visited the out-depots if necessary, but such occasions were exceptional, engines being worked up to Horsham on suitable duties and changed over as required.

1952 February, J. Pelham Maitland, “Locomotive Working on Sussex Branches Fifty Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page 83:

A person qualified to make or repair boilers.


dockworker

Red Hook is fabled dockworker territory, not necessarily for inspirational reasons. The mob violence and union corruption that long defined the piers were part of the underpinnings of the classic 1954 movie “On the Waterfront.”

2009 August 13, N. R. Kleinfield, “Dockworkers See Shoe on Other Foot After a Scandal”, in The New York Times:

The East Coast dockworkers understand what’s happening around the world.

2024 January 10, Heather Long, “The real reason 47,000 dockworkers are on strike”, in The Washington Post:

A person who works on the dock of a harbor or shipyard, usually employed to load or unload freight.


dogcatcher

Men like him couldn't get elected dogcatcher. He was a natural lieutenant, not a leader, and it was a fact he accepted with neither bitterness nor regret.

2007, Robert Ludlum, The Bancroft Strategy, page 348:

A person whose job is to catch and remove stray dogs.


dressmaker

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A person who makes tailor-made women's clothes.


Olympian

From Late Latin Olympianus (“Olympic”) + English -an (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘of or pertaining to’, or forming agent nouns). Olympianus is derived from Latin Olympia (“town in Elis, Greece, where the ancient Olympic Games were held”) + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’); and Olympia is from Ancient Greek Ὀλυμπῐ́ᾱ (Olumpĭ́ā, “Olympia”), from Ὀλῠ́μπῐος (Olŭ́mpĭos, “of or pertaining to Mount Olympus; living on Mount Olympus, Olympian; (specifically) Zeus”) or Ὄλῠμπος (Ólŭmpos, “Mount Olympus”) (see further at etymology 1) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns).
As regards noun sense 1 (“inhabitant of the city of Olympia, Washington, United States”), the city was named after the Olympic Mountains which are visible to the northwest, which in turn were named after Mount Olympus in Greece.

der

For he [Alexander the Great] was not (as his father Philip [II of Macedon]) deſirous of all kind of glorie: who like a Rhetoritian had a delight to vtter his eloquence, and ſtamped in his coines, the victories he had wonne at the Olympian games, by the ſwift running of his horſe and coaches. For when he was asked one day (becauſe he was ſwift of foot) whether he would aſſay to run for victorie at the Olympian games: I could be content, ſaid he, ſo I might run with kings.

1612, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “The Life of Alexander the Great”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, Compared together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Chæronea: […], London: […] Richard Field, →OCLC, page 675:

The Olympian Games were celebrated at the Full Moon after the Somer Solſtice, ſo the Olympian Years begin at that Seaſon.

1705, Tho[mas] Hearne, “The Gro[u]nds of Chronology”, in Ductor Historicus: Or, A Short System of Universal History, and an Introduction to the Study of It. […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: […] Tim[othy] Childe, […], →OCLC, book I (Chronology), page 22:

During his Exile he [Cimon Coalemos] obtain'd the Olympian Prize in the Quadrijugal Chariot-race, and transferr'd the Honour to Miltiades [the Elder] his Mother's Son.

1720, Herodotus, “Book VI. Erato.”, in Isaac Littlebury, transl., The History of Herodotus: Translated from the Greek, 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] A. Bell, […], →OCLC, page 126:

Q. Were Women allow'd to be preſent at thoſe Games? / A. At firſt they were ſo ſtrict in this reſpect, that any Women who croſs'd the River Alpheus while theſe Games were celebrating, were condemn'd to be tumbled down a Rock. But afterwards, Women were even ſuffer'd to perform in the Olympian Games, and they ſometimes won the Prizes.

1743, [John Lockman], “Of the Customs and Manners of the Grecians”, in The History of Greece. By Way of Question and Answer. […], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley […], and sold by M. Cooper […], →OCLC, section II (Of Publick Festivals; viz. of the Olympian, Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian Games), page 172:

(historical) Of or relating to the ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia; Olympic.

Of or relating to the modern Olympic Games; Olympic.

олимпийски

of or relating to the ancient or modern Olympic Games


Olympian

олимпиец

sportsperson competing in the ancient or modern Olympic Games

олимпи́йка

rare; generally used to mean a sports sweatshirt with a zip

An inhabitant of the city of Olympia, the capital of Washington, United States.

olympialainen

inhabitant of the city of Olympia, Washington, United States

And I haue ſeene thee pauſe, and take thy breath, / When that a ring of Greekes haue ſhruped thee in, / Like an Olympian wraſtling.

c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:

(historical) A sportsperson competing in the ancient Olympic Games.

I will forever carry the pride and privilege of representing this amazing country on the grandest global stage. There is so much that comes with that, with being an Olympian. But now, because of Covid-19, some athletes will never get that honour. […] There will be people who were getting the timing right for 2020 who won't be in 2021. From in one year does not guarantee form in the next. That is absolutely heart-breaking. There will be athletes in the community that should have become Olympians. Because of Covid-19, they will never get that opportunity.

2020 August 28, Steve Solomon, “Covid has stripped Olympic glory from a generation of athletes – that’s heartbreaking”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-06-28:

[…] Olympians’ mental health has never been a key concern for the sports governing bodies that oversee them.

2021 July 22, Alice Park, “How Olympians are Fighting to Put Athletes’ Mental Health First”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Warner Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-22:

A sportsperson competing in the modern Olympic Games.


busgirl

(US) A female busser; one who clears plates from and cleans tables; one who buses.


dairyman

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milkwoman

A woman who delivers milk to households and sometimes businesses early in the morning.


elocutionist

Coordinate term: recitalist

Melville Bell's father, Alexander Bell, had been a famous elocutionist and stage reciter.

1998, Beverly Collins, Inger M. Mees, The Real Professor Higgins, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 465:

Her ability as a recitalist or elocutionist, as she was sometimes called, indicated a possible career on the stage.

2013, Michael Gnarowski, Pauline Johnson: Selected Poetry and Prose, Dundurn, →ISBN:

Someone who practices or teaches elocution.

ynseyder jesh loayrtys

someone who practices or teaches elocution


quirister

Upon the highest spray of every mounting pole,
Those Quirristers are pearcht with many a speckled breast.

1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 13 p. 214:

'You are a tweake, aren't you, Nantwich?' said Morgan, a fat, ugly, Welsh quirister, reviled by the others but being allowed, too, into the menacing conpiracy against me.

1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 110:


dolly-boy

(historical) The person (e.g. an apprentice) tasked with holding a rivet dolly in an Australian World War 2 aircraft factory.


charlady

"Then we'll move." And Peter, watching the car resignedly from the window, saw the American grip his seat with both hands, and then raise them suddenly in silent prayer, while an elderly charlady fled with a scream to the safety of the area below.

1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, “In Which He Has a Near Shave”, in Bulld-dog Drummond:

MOST of the charladies to be met with in novels and plays are comic characters. […] This ridicule of a whole class does not mean that novelists and dramatists hate charladies, but only that the novelist and dramatist is never quite master of his own book or his own play.

1949, Frank Swinnerton, “Charladies”, in Tokefield Papers, Old and New, page 163:

He is shown choking back tears as he discovers that his great, great, great grandmother was a charlady in Scotland who died in her thirties of tuberculosis and exhaustion.

2005 December 8, Owen Gibson, “Past lives bring Paxman to tears”, in The Guardian:

(chiefly archaic or historical) A woman who cleans houses and offices as an occupation.


watercolourist

Jim's aunt is an avid watercolourist.


wu

From the Wade-Giles romanization of Mandarin Chinese 巫 (wū, “shaman”).


equerry

From an alteration of earlier esquiry (through the influence of the unrelated Latin equus), from Middle French escuirie, escuerie, derivative of escuyer (“squire”), or alternatively from Medieval Latin scuria (“stable”), from Old High German scura (“barn”). Compare esquire.

A bedroom is provided for the equerry and one for the King's physician. […] The compartments for the doctor and equerry are panelled in West African betula and cherry mahogany.

1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, pages 36, 47:

(British) A personal attendant to a head of state, a member of a royal family, or a national representative.


Supreme Leader

The conventional wisdom in Washington is that Iran’s elections are insignificant. Regardless of who wins, the argument goes, in the end, it’s the supreme leader who calls the shots.

2021 June 22, Ali Vaez, Dina Esfandiary, “The Hard-Liners Won in Iran. That’s Not All Bad News.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Islamic Republic of Iran
Islamic Republic of Iran

(politics) The head of state and commander-in-chief of the entire armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, with the authority to dismiss the Iranian president. The Supreme Leader is also the highest-ranking spiritual leader in Iran.


triple jumper

(athletics) An athlete who competes in the triple jump.


high jumper

(athletics) An athlete who competes in the high jump.

走高跳の選手

はしりたかとびのせんしゅ


long jumper

An athlete who competes in the long jump.

走幅跳の選手

はしりはばとびのせんしゅ


hurdler

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An athlete who competes in the hurdling event.


pole vaulter

Indeed, with a world record‐holder or Olympic champion in almost every race, with six milers who have broken 4 minutes, eight high jumpers who can top 7 feet and seven pole vaulters who have cleared 17 feet, there is no way guessing how many Olympic champions‐elect will be on display in the hatbox over Penn Station.

1972 January 28, “Sports of The Times”, in The New York Times:

(athletics) An athlete who competes in the pole vault.


herder

From Middle English herder, herdere, hurder (attested as a surname), an alteration of Middle English herde (“herder, herdsman”), from Old English hyrde, hierde (“herder”), from Proto-West Germanic *hirdī, from Proto-Germanic *hirdijaz, equivalent to herd + -er. Doublet of herd ("herder"), as in cowherd, goatherd, shepherd, etc.


bullocky

Mother looked as though she were having a fit. She was jumping up and down, running to snatch up the long-handled broom, swearing like a bullocky.

1972, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Stradbroke Dreamtime, Angus & Robertson, 1992, page 32:

He could yarn with the bullockies for hours.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 21:

Through the bush, the shouts of the bullockies and the cracking of their savage wattlestick whips reverberated as the teams slowly made their way. The bullocky′s whip was over four metres long with a handle of nearly three metres.

1993, Mark St Leon, The Wizard of the Wire: The Story of Con Colleano, page 18:

In so doing, the bullocky assumes a larger than life dimension and passes into the realm of myth and Australian legend.
The bullocky in Australia has vanished into the past and old methods have given way to new - ‘grass is across the waggon-tracks and plough strikes bone beneath the grass’.

2006, Jaydeep Sarangi, Binod Mishra, Explorations In Australian Literature, page 107:

The bullock driver, or bullocky, was an important part of the rural labour force in the era before cars and, in some places, for long after.[…]A good bullocky could get work just about anywhere.

2010, Graham Seal, Great Australian Stories: Legends, Yarns and Tall Tales, page 249:

(Australia and New Zealand colloquial, now historical) A person (usually a man) who drives a cart pulled by a team of bullocks.


groomer

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia declared that "communist groomers" wanted to "allow a for-profit medical industry to chop off these confused children's genitals."

2022 December 10, Maggie Astor, “Transgender Americans Feel Under Siege as Political Vitriol Rises”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2022-12-26:

"Sooo...the groomers are calling anti-groomers 'dragphobes' now... got it," conservative comedian Tim Young posted.

2022 December 16, Andrew Mark Miller, “LGBT group warns 'dragphobia' is on the rise, conservatives blast post on Twitter”, in Fox News, archived from the original on 2022-12-22:

In December, far right groups including the Patriot Front and Proud Boys contributed to the cancellation of an Ohio drag storytime event. Many demonstrators showed up armed, while others held up signs with slogans like: "Groomers not welcome" and "Groomers are Child Abusers."

2022 December 21, Andrew Davis, “Drag queens take on Tennessee bill seeking to restrict their performances”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 2022-12-26:

"It seems to be essentially a sort of pedophilic, predatory farm system that the groomers have set up," Walsh said.

2022 December 21, Anya Zoledziowski, “How 2022 Became the Year Trans Hate Went Mainstream”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2022-12-27:

After his takeover, use of the N-word increased by 202 percent; the use of homophobic, misogynist, and transphobic slurs went up at double-digit rates; the use of the slur groomer has increased exponentially.

[2022 December 23, Annie Lowrey, “Why Is Elon Musk Lighting Billions of Dollars on Fire?”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 2022-12-26:

By the way, the buried lede of this is that 60 percent of this school board is LGBT, is gay. The question is, do Christians run for school boards as much as the LGBT community does? No. As I said yesterday, which is groomers can't reproduce, so instead they recruit. So, they go serve on school boards. And they go do drag queens. And they do all this other sort of disgusting nauseating stuff.

2023 March 3, Charlie Kirk, quotee, “Charlie Kirk: "Groomers can't reproduce, so instead they recruit. They go serve on school boards."”, in Media Matters, archived from the original on 2023-03-04:

Attacks against these librarians and administrative employees started to multiply over a year ago when a new Facebook group called Two Moms and Some Books was born. “I think the lowest point, at least for me, is when they started calling us groomers,” said a current librarian who we will call Avery. “That’s not really a word you throw around to people, even people you don’t like.”

2024 May 8, Faith Bugenhagen, “Librarians Under Siege in Montgomery County?”, in Houston Press:

(alt-right, derogatory, offensive, anti-LGBTQ slur) An individual, particularly an LGBT person or drag queen, framed as a predator or threat to children; in particular, someone who makes children aware of LGBT people or drag, from the perspective of those who consider this to be sexual.


salaryman

Calque of Japanese サラリーマン (sararīman), from English salary + man, possibly from the phrase salaried man.

In this way, the salaryman was both a progressive social stratum and an intellectual class.

2000, Harry Harootunian, Overcome by Modernity, page 205:

2017 May 30, NTT Solmare, Moe! Ninja Girls, Season 6 Chapter 2, iOS and Android
― Yamabuki: “Okay... *Sigh*... I thought l'd get to go home and sleep after taking the Principal back...but here I am, still at it, like an overworked salaryman!”
― John: “What? Salaryman?”

An employee, a worker; now especially a Japanese white-collar worker who works long hours yet has an insignificant position within the corporate hierarchy.

toimihenkilö

a salaried worker in Japan or South Korea


farmworker

Though American legislators renewed restrictive immigration policies in the two decades after the war, they allowed employers of farmworkers to import some 4.5 million Mexican "braceros" and Caribbean "offshores," as the workers were called.

2001, Cindy Hahamovitch, “In America Life is Given Away”, in Catherine McNicol Stock, Robert D. Johnston, editors, The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 136:

Congress ended the bracero program in 1964, and the next 15 years were the salad days, as it were, for farmworkers

2017 March 31, “Hail Cesar!”, in National Review:

“It’s illogical. We wear masks and take the same precautions as everybody else,” a farmworker called Juan said.

2020 October 19, Miriam Jordan, “Migrant Workers Restricted to Farms Under One Grower’s Virus Lockdown”, in The New York Times:

A person who works on a farm, especially a hired hand.


sideman

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(music) A soloist playing with a band or group of which he is not a regular member.

I link for the peng, then I go link for the mud / I just stepped on the ends, sideman don't give me no spud

2016, “DPMO”, in Gunna Grimes (lyrics), #FingsOnThings, performed by 86:

She told me she loved me, I was like when?
Treated me like a sideman back then

2019, “Love Me Not” (track 8), in Ignorance Is Bliss, performed by Skepta:

(MLE, derogatory) Somebody who is unimportant or irrelevant.


filmmaker

I spent a couple of months all by myself building a set and had my filmmaker friends, nonactors, play the parts.

2007 March 11, Erik Piepenburg, “Reflections on Life as a Shaker-Upper”, in New York Times:

Such prissy mollycoddlings of audience expectations were shortly to come under heavyweight siege from a variety of filmmakers in the 1950s – not least the aforementioned Otto Preminger.

2015, B. Forshaw, Sex and Film: The Erotic in British, American and World Cinema:

кино́шник

also anyone working in the film industry or a moviegoer


contract killer

en-noun

contract killer (plural contract killers)

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A person who contracts to kill a specified person for an agreed sum of money.


guajiro

From Spanish guajiro, from Lokono/Wayuu.


mystery shopper

mystery shopper (plural mystery shoppers)

→ Dutch: mysteryshopper

Mystery shoppers: The judging for the Station of the Year categories takes the form of a mystery shopper-style visit, with judges visiting the nominated station and viewing the facilities and services through the eyes of a traveller. This allows the stations to be viewed objectively and fairly.

2019 December 4, Andy Coward, “Derby's crowning achievement”, in Rail, page 56:

Someone hired by a company to pose as a customer in order to evaluate the quality of its service.


farm worker

A person who works on, but does not own, a farm; an agricultural labourer / agricultural laborer.


reviewer

AN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE RAILWAYS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. By Ernest F. Carter. Cassell. 63s. [...] Such a disappointing work is embarrassing to the reviewer and unworthy of the great House of Cassell.

1960 January, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 26:

A person who writes reviews for a newspaper or other publication; a critic.


multi-instrumentalist

A musician who plays two or more musical instruments at a professional level of proficiency.

მულტიინსტრუმენტალისტი

one who plays more than one musical instruments


humourist

Humorologists study humour and humourists, smile therapists believe in the therapeutic value of cheer and humoropathists promote a 'cacchination (guffawing) cure' for serious illness ('Vitamin C and Laurel and Hardy').

2002 January 12, “What's the word?”, in The Guardian:

I only met the late and much-missed humourist once, but he had an impact on my life that hasn't been mentioned in the other fond tributes.

2007 October 30, Ali Catterall, “Alan Coren launched my criminal career”, in The Guardian:

(British) Alternative spelling of humorist


shopman

The proprietor, manager, or operator of a small store.


illywhacker

Uncertain. Suggested by lexicographer Sidney Baker to derive from illy (variant of eeler, from pig Latin eeler-spee for spieler) + whacker. The verb form whack the illy is a back-formation from the noun.

‘What's an illywhacker?’ said Charles. ‘Spieler,’ explained Leah, who was not used to children.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 228:

confidence trickster
confidence trickster

(Australia, colloquial, rare) A small-time confidence trickster or seller of trinkets.


bottomer

(mining) A person employed to attend to the bottom of the shaft.


palynologist

One who studies palynology (pollen, spores, and other particulate organic matter).


violer

(archaic) A musician who plays the viol.


soldier of fortune

soldier of fortune (plural soldiers of fortune)

Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.

1983-1987, The A-Team (television production), spoken by Narrator (John Ashley):

A non-commissioned soldier willing to serve any state or person who will hire him.


freelancer

(EMS, fire service, law enforcement) One who performs duties outside of the chain of command and SOPs.


cryobiologist

a biologist who specializes in cryobiology


malacologist

In the early 1800s the French malacologist Pierre Denys de Montfort published an account of a British ship of the line that he claimed had been sunk, and its crew devoured, by a Colossal octopus, or Kraken.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 233:

A person who studies molluscs; a specialist in malacology.


boundary umpire

boundary umpire (plural boundary umpires)

Australian rules football
Australian rules football

(Australian rules football) A match official who decides when the ball has over the boundary line (out of bounds), and whether it was on the full from a kick. (Under the rules as of 2007, a free kick results from on the full, or a throw-in otherwise.)


goal umpire

(Australian rules football) A match official who decides when the ball passes between the goal posts (or behind posts) and the score then to be awarded (goal or behind).


griot

Griots may be the chroniclers of an important family or of a group of people — like the Bambara hunters’ griot — or itinerant poets and musicians who extol the praises of the person who has hired them for a special festivity.

1995, Françoise Pfaff, “Sembene, A Griot of Modern Times”, in Michael T. Martin, editor, Cinemas of the Black Diaspora: Diversity, Dependence, and Oppositionality, page 118:

When ethnographers are asked to read their works to gatherings of Songhay, elders, they, too, are considered griots.
Ethnographers, however, usually consider themselves scholars, not griots. They prepare themselves for their life's work in a manner altogether different from that of the griot.

1997, Paul Stoller, Sensuous Scholarship, page 15:

I decided that it would be better for a griot to take us back into the legend, rather than me, a contemporary man. Griots have deeply marked me. I already narrated my first film, Ta Dona, in the same way that a griot would have.

2003, Melissa Thackway, “Interview I: Adama Drabo, director”, in Africa Shoots Back: Alternative Perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone African Film, page 183:

A West African storyteller who passes on oral traditions; a wandering musician and poet.

bàrɔ

West African storyteller, musician and poet


spationaut

From French spationaute. spatio- + -naut.

The next flight to the ISS is scheduled for April 19th and will be composed of Russian cosmonaut Guennady Padalka, American astronaut Michael Fincke and ESA Dutch spationaut André Kuipers. [ESA, AFP 04/02/2004, Air & Cosmos 04/09/2004]

2004, “EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY HOPES TO SEND TWO ASTRONAUTS TO THE ISS IN 2005”, in France in Space, archived from the original on 2004-05-06:

Considering the weight problems that Hermes ran into, the astronauts probably thought that they were lucky to have seats, much less ejection seats, rather than slings to sit in. Something about an ESA spationaut putting their ass into a sling is unappealing.

2005, Pat Flannery, “Son of Little Joe II”, in sci.space.policy (Usenet):

A European astronaut, specifically one representing ESA.


dry cleaner

A person whose business is the dry cleaning of clothes and other fabrics.


otolaryngologist

/ˌɑ.toʊ.lɛɚ.ɪŋˈɡɑ.lə.d͡ʒɪst/

(medicine) Synonym of otorhinolaryngologist.


majordomo

/ˌmeɪ.d͡ʒəˈdəʊ.məʊ/

From Italian maggiordomo and Spanish mayordomo, from Late Latin māior domūs (“steward”), from Latin māior (“main, principal”) + genitive singular of domus (“household”).

The United Nation's climate majordomo -- tasked with herding 192 nations toward a do-or-die deal by year's end -- does not have the power to impose an agreement on how to curb greenhouse gases and cope with its consequences.

(chiefly US) Any overseer, organizer, person in command.

pehtori

manager of an estate; overseer of a farm

päällikkö

any overseer, organizer, person in command


tummler

Circa 1930, from Yiddish טומלער (tumler). Related to English tumble, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tūmōną (“to turn, rotate”).

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Brooks began as a Tummler (master entertainer) at various Catskills resorts, where he honed his skills at telling jokes and doing impersonations.

2015, Henry Jenkins, “Mel Brooks, Vulgar Modernism, and Comic Remediation”, in Andrew Horton, Joanna E. Rapf, editors, A Companion to Film Comedy, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 151:

master of ceremonies
master of ceremonies

(US) An employee, usually male, of a Borscht Belt resort charged with the duty of entertaining guests throughout the day by providing any number of services, from comedian to master of ceremonies.


school band

A musical ensemble associated with a school, not necessarily a musical school; e.g. marching band.

skolekorps

a musical ensemble associated with a school


immunologist

A person who studies or practices medicine in the area of immunology.


man Friday

en-noun

man Friday (plural man Fridays or men Friday or men Fridays)

man Fridays (plural)
men Friday (plural)
men Fridays (plural)

From man (“adult male servant”) + Friday, coined by the English writer Daniel Defoe (c. 1660 – 1731) in his novel Robinson Crusoe (1719) as the name of the protagonist Crusoe’s companion and servant; he is rescued by Crusoe from cannibal captives on a Friday. Crusoe frequently refers to him as “my man Friday”.

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of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years, All Alone in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River Oroonoque; having been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein All the Men Perished but Himself. With an Account how He was at Last as Strangely Deliver’d by Pyrates.

This man—our lackey, our servant, our unquestioning slave though he was, was still a gentleman— […] We asked our man Friday’s name.

1869, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XIII, in The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company. […], →OCLC, page 119:

Nothing is less true, as far as intellectual initiative is concerned, than the idea that those who are good in obeying will also be good in commanding. Very similar difficulties arise in political parties: the ‘Man Friday’ of the party leader is seldom a capable successor.

1945, K[arl] R[aimund] Popper, “The Principle of Leadership”, in The Open Society and Its Enemies, 4th edition, volume I (The Spell of Plato), London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, published 1962, section V, page 135:

A trusted man whose job is to assist and organize someone else's day-to-day business or personal tasks; a personal assistant, a right-hand man; also, a trusted male companion.


Machiavelli

Probably from Italian mal- + chiavello, in which the second component is a diminutive of chiavo (“nail”). The name is attested in a Late Latin document in the form Malclavelli.

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), Italian statesman and writer, whose work The Prince (1532) advises that acquiring and exercising power may require unethical methods.


Machiavelli

Someone like Niccolò Machiavelli: a Machiavellian person


comitadji

From various Balkan languages, all from Ottoman Turkish قومیتهجی (komitacı), from Ottoman Turkish قومیته (komita) from French comité (“committee”) + ـجی (-cı).

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For a summer he worked as a comitadji in Macedonia, and later joined the Serbian Army during the Balkan wars.

1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 808:

He was a former comitadji who had been involved in fomenting unrest in Bosnia after the annexation of 1908 and was even rumoured to have commanded guerrilla bands.

2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 61:

(historical) A member of a unit of irregular soldiers or resistance fighters; a partisan.


comfort woman

Calque from Japanese 慰(い)安(あん)婦(ふ) (ianfu).

She carefully watches the efforts of Koreans who are suing Japan to get reparations for the comfort women. It was only in 1993 that Japan formally recognized its involvement in the forced prostitution.

1995 September 10, Jane H. Lii, “The Memories of a Comfort Woman”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(idiomatic, historical, euphemistic) A woman forced, or supposedly recruited, into brothels by the Japanese occupation forces before or during World War II.


comfort girl

(idiomatic, euphemistic) A female sex slave; prostitute.

Those who have met me taking their photos have seen nothing but yoga pants and a pony tail—and probably flip flops if it was a beach session! But although on the day to day I am a comfort girl through and through, especially when chasing littles and squatting at a seconds notice to “get the shot.”

2019 January 4, (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 2024-04-29:

(fashion) A girl or woman who wears comfortable clothes.


ringmaster

The person who manages the performers in a circus ring.

sprechstallmeister

the person who manages the performers in a circus ring


repo man

I'm a repo man. It's a repossesser. I take back cars from dildos who don't pay their bills. Cool huh?

1984, Alex Cox, Repo Man, spoken by Otto Maddox (Emilio Estevez):

(US) A man employed by a finance company or similar lender to repossess property which is the security for a loan or subject of a lease and where payments have not been made by the borrower/lessor at agreed times (i.e. one that is in default).


carillonneur

I had never played bells. Very few people have that clanging opportunity. But I could play a piano. So I said, “Shake hands with your new carillonneur.”


provedore

From Spanish proveedor or Portuguese provedor (“provider”), perhaps via Venetan. From Latin prōvideō (“I foresee”). Doublet of purveyor and proveditor.

A person or business which provides supplies, particularly food and beverages.


draftswoman

A woman exceptionally skilled in drawing.


bagger

From Middle English bagger, baggere, baggare, equivalent to bag + -er (agent noun suffix).

A retail employee who bags customers' purchases and carries them to the customers' vehicles.


bagger

From bag + -er (relational noun suffix).

A touring motorcycle equipped with saddlebags.


coiffeur

en-verb

coiffeur (third-person singular simple present coiffeurs, present participle coiffeuring, simple past and past participle coiffeured)

coiffeurs (present singular third-person)
coiffeuring (participle present)
coiffeured (participle past)
coiffeured (past)

Borrowed from French coiffeur, from coiffer, from Old French coife, from Late Latin cofia (“cap”).


political scientist

en-noun

political scientist (plural political scientists)


shunter

The shunter has a lightweight portable radio transmitter by which, as he uncouples an incoming train into cuts for marshalling, he informs the Traffic Office of the number of wagons in each cut and its siding; [...].

1960 June, “Talking of Trains: The new Margam yard”, in Trains Illustrated, page 323:

(rail transport, British) A person who carries out shunting operations.

стрелочник

a person who carries out shunting operations


tap-dancer

(dance) Someone who performs a tap dance.


truchman

/ˈtɹʌt͡ʃmən/

From mediaeval Latin turchemannus or French trucheman, from Arabic تُرْجُمَان (turjumān). Doublet of dragoman.

1604, Edward Grimston (translator), The Natural and Moral History of the Indies by José de Acosta (1590), edited by Clements Markham, London: Hakluyt Society, 1853, Volume II, Book 7, Chapter 25, p. 519,
He laboured to make them all understand this discourse, using his interpreters and truchmen. The which being understoode by the King and the other Mexicane Lords, they were wonderfully well satisfied, and shewed great signes of love to Cortes and his company.

1640, William Habington, The Queen of Arragon, Act II, Scene 1, in A Selection of Collection of Old Plays, Volume 9, London: Septimus Prowett, 1825,
[…] And now I have with labour
Attain’d thy language, I’ll thy truchman be.
Interpret for thee to those smaller souls,
Who wonder when they understand not: souls!

1716, William Davenant, “The Philosopher’s Disquisition directed to the Dying Christian” stanza 31 in John Dryden, editor, Miscellany Poems, London: Jacob Tonson, Volume 6, p. 289,
Since justly Clients pay that Judge an awe,
Who Law’s lost Sense interprets and restores;
(Yet Judges are no more above the Law
Then Truchmen are above Ambassadors.)

An I hire a truchman to tell my tale
The lover’s plaint is not told for pay:

1885, Richard Burton, transl., The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, page 100:


lighthouse keeper

lighthouse keeper (plural lighthouse keepers)

A person who lives in a lighthouse and tends the light together with its optics and mechanisms.


rock group

A group of musicians who regularly perform rock music together.

مَجْمُوعَة رُوك

musical group specializing in rock music


escapologist

An entertainer skilled in the art of escapology.


stuntman

During filming a stuntman was injured as he jumped from a railway bridge onto the roof of a train passing below.

In films, someone who performs stunts that are deemed too dangerous or physically difficult for the main actors to attempt.


sales assistant

sales assistant (plural sales assistants)


evolutionary biologist

evolutionary biologist (plural evolutionary biologists)

evolutionary biology
evolutionary biology

A scientist working in the field of evolutionary biology.


homeopath

From homeo- + -path, related to German Homöopath.


ragman

For travellers have to carry bags, / And swagmen have to hump their swags / Like bottle-ohs or ragmen.

1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 14:

Oh, the ragman draws circles / Up and down the block / I'd ask him what the matter was / But I know that he don't talk

1966, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again”, in Blonde on Blonde:

A person who collects and sells unwanted household items such as rags and other refuse for a living, a rag and bone man.


ragman

ragman (countable and uncountable, plural ragmans)

(historical) A statute issued by Edward I in 1276.

He bonched hem with his breuet · & blered here eyes / And rauȝte with his ragman · rynges and broches […]

c. 1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman, Prologue:

(obsolete) A document having many names or seals, such as a papal bull.

(historical, uncountable) A game in which players compete to pull an object from out of a roll of writing.


general of the army

general of the army (plural generals of the army)

admiral of the fleet
admiral of the fleet

A commissioned military officer of the highest rank in the United States, ranking directly above a general, and corresponding to marshal or field marshal in other countries. A general of the army is equal in grade or rank to an admiral of the fleet.

A military officer of the highest rank in several countries that follow the United States military rank system, including Liberia.


major general

In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy-- [...] You'll say a better major-general has never sat agee.

1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “I am the very pattern of a modern Major-General”, in The Pirates of Penzance […], Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart & Co., published 1880, →OCLC, page 17:

A military officer in the armies of most nations, typically ranking below a lieutenant general and above a brigadier.


kingsman

(military) The lowest enlisted rank in the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment of the British Army, equivalent to private in the rest of the British Army.


piano player

One who plays the piano (to make music); a pianist.


lieutenant colonel

lieutenant colonel (plural lieutenant colonels or lieutenants colonel)

lieutenant colonels (plural)
lieutenants colonel (plural)

סגן אלוף (s'gán alúf, literally “deputy champion”)

An army officer in many countries, ranking below a colonel and above a major. Often the commander of a battalion or the executive officer of a regiment.

An English-language term used as a general categorization for military officer ranks that are the equivalent of lieutenant colonel, the relative rank level is found in most countries.

An officer in the United States Marine Corps or Royal Marines, of equivalent rank to their counterparts in the army.

An officer in the United States Air Force, Air Force Reserve, or Air National Guard, ranking below colonel and above major. Often the commander of a squadron or the executive officer of a wing.


staff sergeant

non-commissioned officer
non-commissioned officer

A non-commissioned officer in the armed forces of several countries, ranking above a sergeant (or, in the US Air Force, above a senior airman).


sergeant major

sergeant major (plural sergeant majors or sergeants major)

sergeant majors (plural)
sergeants major (plural)

(US, plural sergeants major) The most senior rank of non-commissioned officer in the United States Army, ranking above a first sergeant. In the United States Marine Corps it ranks above First Sergeant and is equal in grade to Master Gunnery Sergeant.


master sergeant

master sergeant (plural master sergeants)

sergeant first class
sergeant first class

(military, US) A non-commissioned officer in the United States Army, ranking above sergeant first class and below sergeant major; equal in grade and pay to a first sergeant.

master gunnery sergeant
master gunnery sergeant

(military, US) A non-commissioned officer in the United States Marine Corps, ranking above gunnery sergeant and below master gunnery sergeant or sergeant major.

senior master sergeant
senior master sergeant

(military, US) A non-commissioned officer in the United States Air Force, ranking above technical sergeant and below senior master sergeant.


truck driver

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(US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) A person employed to drive a truck, especially a tractor-trailer or other large industrial truck.


bus driver

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tiler

Inherited from Middle English tiler, tilar, tilere, tylere, tighelar, tyghelere, tygelere, probably from Old English *tiglere, *tigelere (“one who lays tile, tiler”), equivalent to tile + -er.

(Freemasonry) A doorkeeper or attendant at a lodge of Freemasons.


first sergeant

(US) In the United States Army, a non-commissioned officer ranking above sergeant first class and below sergeant major; equal in rank to a master sergeant but with greater command authority.

(US) In the United States Marine Corps, a non-commissioned officer ranking above gunnery sergeant and below sergeant major or master gunnery sergeant; equal in rank to a master sergeant, but with command rather than technical responsibilities.

(US) In the United States Air Force, an appointment (not a rank) for the senior member of enlisted personnel in a squadron or other unit. The appointment is usually held by a master sergeant.


lance corporal

(US) An enlisted rank of grade E-3 in the United States Marine Corps, ranking above private first class and below corporal. Abbreviated as LCpl.


gunnery sergeant

gunnery sergeant (plural gunnery sergeants)

(military, US) A non-commissioned officer of rank E-7 in the United States Marine Corps, ranking above a staff sergeant and below a master sergeant or first sergeant.


trimmer

It put me to endless expense of having roof-men, gutter-men and tree-trimmers. At last I gave the grim order, “Cut her down.”

1944, Emily Carr, “Life Loves Living”, in The House of All Sorts:

One who trims, arranges, fits, or ornaments.

Thus Halifax was a Trimmer on principle.

1848, Baron Macaulay, History of England, I.2:

What do you love most?
 Most of all, I love being alive. I love the natural world—and caring and creative people—and the seekers of justice and truth. Whom do I disdain? Bigots, reactionaries, self-righteous people, zealots, trimmers, bullies, and manipulators.

1999, Bill Moyers, “Stanley Kunitz”, in Fooling With Words : A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 6:

Lady Margaret Beaufort's third husband, Lord Stanley, an accomplished political trimmer, gave fair words but little commitment: the vast, well-armed Stanley retinues shadowed Henry's route southeast to the battlefield and waited, detached, to see how the chips fell.

2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 9:

Someone who fluctuates between opposing factions, political parties etc., according to current interest, a flip-flopper.

Trimmers are used to stow the coal in the vessel, and, in the case of vessels with awkwardly-situated cargo spaces, a great deal of trimming may be involved. Vessels specially constructed for coal carrying have very wide hatches, and these may be easy trimmers, that is, need only a minimum of trimmers or self trimmers which require only the final cover of coal over each hold to be levelled down by trimmers. Trimmers are employed by the shipowners and they are paid tonnage rates.

1945 January and February, T. F. Cameron, “Dock Working”, in Railway Magazine, page 11:

(shipping, historical) A person employed to rearrange the coal in the hold of a vessel, so that it fills the vessel without forming a conical blockage.

(mining, historical) A device for storing coal in gradually increasing piles made by building up at the point of the cone or top of the prism.

Mr. Hazeldean wrote him such a trimmer that it could not but produce an unconciliatory reply.

1853, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, My Novel, or Varieties in English Life:

(dated) One who or that which trims, or rebukes or reproves; a scold.

(cricket) A fast, high-quality delivery by the bowler, especially one that results in a dismissal of a batter by removing the bails without hitting the stumps.


proofreader

A person whose occupation is to proofread.


topographer

a person who studies or records topography

топо́граф

A person who studies or records topography


sergeant first class

sergeant first class (plural sergeants first class)

(US, Army) A non-commissioned officer in the United States Army, ranking above a staff sergeant and below a master sergeant or first sergeant.


private first class

private first class (plural privates first class)

nëntetar

rank between a private and a corporal or specialist

(US) An enlisted rank in the United States Marine Corps, of rank E-2, ranking above a private and below a lance corporal.

일등병

rank between a private and a lance corporal


projectionist

A person who operates a film projector, especially one who does so as an occupation at a movie theatre or drive-in theatre.


smoke eater

Coordinate term: smoke blower

A device or piece of equipment designed to remove smoke from the air.


governor-general

It is a historical and analytical study of the position of Viceroy and Governor-General in the Indian constitutional system.

1940, Abani Bhushan Rudra, The Viceroy and Governor-General of India, page xi:

The vulnerability of the Governor-General should not be overstated.

1997, New Zealand Law Journal, page 217:

2003, The Far East and Australasia 2003, Europa Publications, page 122,
The legislative power of the Commonwealth of Australia is vested in a Federal Parliament, consisting of HM the Queen (represented by the Governor-General), a Senate, and a House of Representatives.

(UK) An official appointed by the reigning British monarch to govern a Commonwealth realm as the monarch's representative.


Vladika

On the courtesy and hospitality of the Vladika, indeed, I cannot speak too highly; and the friendly feelings he entertains towards strangers, who are interested in his country, contribute greatly to the pleasure of a visit to Montenegro.

1848, Sir John Gardener Wilkinson, Dalmatia and Montenegro, J Murray, page 402:

From this time, Tchernegora, deserted by its hereditary princes, the Government became vested in its spiritual ruler the Vladika

1851, Edmund Spencer, Travels in European Turkey, page 390:

Running roughly parallel with the increasing unity of the tribes was the gradual transformation of the office of metropolitan or Vladika, which having at first been an ecclesiastical position, subordinate to and elected by the tribes, had begun by the early seventeenth century to serve as both a focus for and agent of central authority

2007, Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain, Hurst & Co, published 2007, page 15:

This movement, partly religious and partly political, gave rise to the independent principality of the vladikas.

2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 585:

(now historical) The head of church and state in Montenegro until 1852; the prince bishop.


soccer player

(soccer, US, South Africa, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) One who plays soccer, especially professional soccer.


baseball player

baseball player (plural baseball players)

One who plays baseball, especially professional baseball.


basketball player

basketball player (plural basketball players)

(basketball) A person who plays basketball, especially professionally.

バスケットボール選手

バスケットボールせんしゅ


eye doctor

(chiefly US) An optometrist or ophthalmologist.


plasterer

The plasterer doth make his figures by addition, and the carver by substraction.

1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:


perfumer

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From perfume (noun and verb) + -er, perhaps modelled on Middle French parfumeur.

Affairs went on thus until the latter had attained her twenty-second year, when her great beauty attracted the notice of a perfumer, who occupied one of the shops in the basement of the Palais Royal, and whose custom lay chiefly among the desperate adventurers infesting that neighborhood.

1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt:


buffer lass

(British, obsolete) A young woman employed at a factory cleaning and polishing cutlery.


headwaiter

A waiter who has a supervisory position over the other wait staff; chief waiter.


metallurgist

(dated) A person who works in metal (the type of material).


motorman

Coordinate term: brakeman

Near-synonym: engineer

Four years later, on May 27, 1898, he was promoted to fireman, and worked on all types of freight trains until November 27, 1911, when he was transferred to Heaton and became a motorman on the Tyneside electric services. After a spell of just over eight years as a motorman, he returned to Gateshead as a driver, and apart from a further short period as a motorman, he was employed at the Gateshead depot, first as a pilot driver, and then as a freight train driver.

1943 July and August, “Top Link Drivers: VII—Driver Matthew Morton, L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 220:

The electric train motorman denied emphatically that he had misread this train's signals for his own and asserted that the inner home signal on the up main through line for his train was displaying a green aspect, with the indicator showing platform 14.

1961 March, “Talking of trains: Collision at Waterloo”, in Trains Illustrated, page 138:

But to no avail - the suburban (Sunday) service ground to a halt, with only 20 of the 268 motormen turning up for work on Boxing Day [1949]. Kempton Park races lost 10,000 visitors, with the cancellation of 12 extra race day trains.

2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 29:


prince bishop

A bishop who also holds a secular princely rank, regardless whether its territory concurs wholly or partially with his diocese.


mentalist

1997, I'm Alan Partridge (TV series), To Kill a Mocking Alan
Jed Maxwell: See you next week then. We'll have that pint.
Alan Partridge: Yep.
Jed Maxwell: ...go and see my brother.
Alan Partridge: No way, you big spastic! You're a mentalist!

In front a staff sergeant with the new Royal Caledonians was gassing about Scullion and the regiment. 'And this major's a total fucking mentalist,' he said. 'What's mental about him?' asked the lance corporal beside him.

2015, Andrew O'Hagan, The Illuminations, →ISBN, page 39:


donzel

From Italian donzello. Compare donzella.


oiler

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From Middle English oyler, equivalent to oil + -er.

Near-synonym: greaser

There were a lot of renegades down towards the Mexican line who made a raid once in a while, and a few oilers livin' near had water holes in the foothills, […]

1907, Stewart Edward White, chapter 4, in Arizona Nights:


newspaperman

A man who works in the production of the text of a newspaper; a reporter, editor, etc.


geochemist

(chemistry, geology) A chemist or geologist who specializes in geochemistry


newsboy

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Coordinate term: flat cap

He was wearing a gray newsboy and a tan jacket.


newswoman

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bonesetter

One who realigns broken or disjointed bones.

sınıqçı

one who realigns broken or disjointed bones


houseboy

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From house + boy (“young male; (historical or offensive) non-white male servant regardless of age”).

compound

House servants are usually either Chinese or Tamil, the former predominating, especially in towns of any size. The domestic staff will in general consist of a houseboy (in large establishments two houseboys), a water carrier (tukang ayer), whose duties include washing dishes and preparing baths, a cook, a gardener, a chauffeur or sais, and perhaps an ayah (if Chinese, amah) or two, according to the size of the family.

1935, Ralph Lionel German, Handbook to British Malaya, 1935, [London]: [R. L. German]: Obtainable from the Malay Information Agency, Waterlow and Sons, →OCLC, page 50:

A married man with a family of three living in a private house will require in most cases a cook, houseboy, an amah (female servant) for washing and ironing, a second amah to take care of small children or infants, and one or possibly two gardeners depending on the size of the lot. A syce (chauffeur) is optional in each individual case. Cooks, houseboys, and amahs are usually Chinese, while gardeners and chauffeurs are Malay.

1949, Office of International Trade with Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, International Reference Service, volume 6, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 64:

(chiefly historical) A young male domestic servant, especially in a British colony in former times.

прислужник

(chiefly historical, derogatory, offensive) A non-white adult male domestic servant.


string band

(music) A music group consisting solely of stringed instruments.


naik

From Sanskrit नायक (nāyaka, “leader, governor”).

cog

1888: Also, he had to keep his temper … especially once when he was abused by a Naik he had himself recruited from Isser Jang village — Rudyard Kipling, ‘Miss Youghal's Sais’, Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2007, p. 26)

(India, Pakistan, Nepal) A non-commissioned officer equivalent to corporal in a corps of Indian, Pakistani or Nepalese soldiers.


internist

(medicine) A physician who specialises in internal medicine.


primatologist

primatolog

scientist whose speciality is primatology


bioengineer

en-verb

bioengineer (third-person singular simple present bioengineers, present participle bioengineering, simple past and past participle bioengineered)

bioengineers (present singular third-person)
bioengineering (participle present)
bioengineered (participle past)
bioengineered (past)

(transitive, biotechnology) To produce or alter (something) by bioengineering.


houseboi

“‘Dear Chief: The bearer of this letter, Chow Lan Chu, my houseboi, is a great thief and steals whatever he can lay his hands on. […]’”

1922, Stephen Piero Sergius Rudinger de Rodyenko, Small Me: A Story of Shanghai Life, The James A. McCann Company, page 36:

[…] While still a pup, / You put him in a sack, then beat it / With a stick. When howls and yelpings die, / You send the houseboi out to set him free.

1969, Louis Johnson, “The Way to Train a Dog” (poem), reprinted in Louis Johnson (poet), Terry Sturm (editor), Selected Poems, Victoria University Press (2000), page 101

[…] he seduces his houseboi’s wife, his Mary, and fires the houseboi. […] ¶ “You’ve got no authority over my private life. What about your wife, she’s a bit on the dark side, isn't she?” ¶ “I didn’t steal my wife from my houseboi. And we’re legally married.”

1992, Angelika Fremd, The Glass Inferno, University of Queensland Press, →ISBN, pages 123–4:

For most colonial wives, the houseboi, the domestic servant, was the first real contact with a native.

2007, Anne Dickson-Waiko, “Colonial Enclaves and Domestic Spaces in British New Guinea”, in Kate Darian-Smith et al., editors, Britishness abroad: transnational movements and imperial cultures, Melbourne University Press, →ISBN, page 222:

A domestic manservant, particularly colonial.


coleopterist

Recently, another coleopterist collected Brachys barberi—more typically a southwestern species—on Quercus harvardii (shinnery oak) at this spot.

2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:


stable boy

A boy or young man who attends in a stable.


rockstar

A member of a rock band, or a solo artist in the genre, especially one with celebrity status.


neuropsychologist

A neurologist or psychologist whose speciality is neuropsychology


office boy

A junior male clerk employed in a professional office to perform odd jobs, such as running errands or making copies.

راش

boy or junior clerk employed in a professional office


pulmonologist

A physician who specializes in pulmonology.

pulmonoloq

a physician who specializes in pulmonology


gastroenterologist

A physician who specializes in gastroenterology.


wharfinger

/ˈwɔːfɪnd͡ʒə/

/ˈwɔɹfɪnd͡ʒəɹ/

From Late Middle English wharfager (“keeper of a wharf”) (modified in the same way as messenger from Middle English messager, passenger from Middle English passager, etc.), from wharfage (“use of a wharf; payment for such use”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns, especially names of persons engaged in professions or trades). Wharfage is probably derived from Medieval Latin wharfāgium, or from Middle English wharf (“structure projecting into a body of water for ships to moor and load or unload, pier, quay, wharf”) + -age (suffix forming nouns denoting actions, states, etc.). By surface analysis, wharfage + -er.

inh

Near-synonym: dockmaster

And be it further enacted by the authority aforeſaid, that if any wharfinger, crane keeper, ſearcher, lyghterman, weighter or other officer pertayning to the ſubſidie cuſtome, or cuſtome houſe, doo at any time after the ſaid day, conſent or knowe any offence or thing to bee committed or done contrary to yͤ true meani[n]g of this act, or any article ther in contained, and doo not within one moneth next after knowledge thereof had, diſcloſe the ſame to the chiefe cuſtomer […] ſhall for euery ſuch concelement, or not diſcloſing ſuch offence as is aforeſaid, forf[eit] & loſe C.li. of good and lawful money of England.

1579, “Merchants & Merchandises”, in William Rastall [i.e., William Rastell], editor, A Collection of All the Statutes, from the Beginning of Magna Charta, vnto this Present Yeare of Our Lord God 1579, […], [London]: [Christopher Barker], →OCLC, paragraph 47, page 317, column 2:

If fine goods or the like are put into a cloſe Lighter and to be conveyed from the Ship to the Key, it is uſual there that the Maſter ſends a Competent number of his Marriners to look to the Merchandize, if then any of the goods are loſt or imbezled, the Maſter is reſponſible and not the VVharfinger; but if ſuch goods are to be ſent aboard a Ship, there the VVharfinger at his peril muſt take care the ſame be preſerved.

1677, Charles Molloy, “Masters of Ships, Their Actions Considered in Reference to Cases Private and Publick”, in De Jure Maritimo et Navali: Or, A Treatise of Affairs Maritime and of Commerce. […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Bellinger […]; George Dawes […] [a]nd Robert Boulter […], →OCLC, book II, paragraph X, page 200:

My conclusions are, that, on the true understanding of the case of Fletcher v. Rylands, the Civil Judge's decree is right. That, if otherwise, the imposing of such a duty upon a landowner is forbidden by precisely the same principles as have forbidden the imposition upon Wharfingers, Railway Companies and Shipowners.

1871 February 15, William Holloway, Acting Chief Justice, “The Madras Railway Company v. The Zaminda’r of Ka’vatinaggur [Regular Appeal No. 108 of 1870]”, in P[atrick] O’Sullivan, J[ohn] M. C. Mills, editors, Madras High Court Reports: Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Madras in 1870 and 1871, Madras, Tamil Nadu: Higginbotham and Co., […], published 1872, →OCLC, page 187:

The trade of the Port of London, at any rate in regard to sea-going vessels, tended down the river, and an opening span became less and less necessary every year; and as that need became less, the compensation to wharfingers and others would also become less. Concurrently the need of the railways was growing, and, sooner or later, that need would overcome the opposition of the wharfingers

1896 November 10, Samuel George Homfray, “The Machinery of the Tower Bridge [Paper No. 2992; Discussion]”, in J. H. T. Tudsbery, editor, Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers; with Selected and Abstracted Papers, volume CXXVII, London: Institution [of Civil Engineers], […], published 1897, →OCLC, page 66:

It was the wharfinger, seeking whom he might devour. Belacqua gave heed to what was being said to him, and elicited in the end from an exuberance of coprolalia that the main was requiring him to go. "Get off my pier," said the wharfinger rudely, "and let me get home to my tea."

1932 (date written), Samuel Beckett, chapter 2, in Eoin O’Brien, Edith Fournier, editors, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, London; Paris: Calder Publications, published 1993, →ISBN, page 7:

(nautical, chiefly historical) The manager or owner of a wharf (“artificial landing place for ships on a riverbank or shore”).

A female wharfinger—a grade of staff peculiar to the Wenford Mineral Line—lives in an adjacent house.

1940 December, Charles E. Lee, “The Wenford Mineral Line”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 645:

(by extension, England, rail transport) The manager of a wharf along a railway line, that is, a place used for loading and unloading goods on to trains.

laiturinpitäjä

manager or owner of a wharf; manager of a wharf along a railway line


khagan

Ultimately from Old Turkic 𐰴𐰍𐰣 (qaɣan). Doublet of khan.

As early as the year 740 A.D., one of the Khazar kaghans had turned to Constantinople for a missionary versed in Christian law.

1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 69:

"A kagan is the father, the mother and the lover of all his people. Nobody would lift a hand against him," said Hanukkah.

2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 52:

(historical) A khan of khans, a ruler of a khaganate; (the holder of) an imperial rank used among certain Turkic and Mongolian peoples, equal in status to an emperor.


waitron

Coined as a gender-neutral substitute for waiter and waitress, this is one of the few words with the gender-neutral suffix -ron to have seen much use, probably re-inforced by rhyming with patron. (Some references instead analyse it as using the same "machinelike" suffix -tron as waitron (“mechanical waiter”), but more likely it uses -ron like laundron and like waiter and waitress use -er/-ress not *-ter/*-tress.)

With adolescent perversity, he turned up his nose at all of the elegant French items on the Closerie's menu and scandalized the waitron by demanding corned-beef hash—fried extra crisp—with poached eggs, a slice of fresh papaya with lime, banana-walnut bread, and a pitcher of Mexican chocolate.

1992, Julian May, Jack the Bodiless, Knopf, →ISBN, →OL:

Table Service is the combined interaction between the guest and the waitron whilst seated at a table in the establishment's restaurant.

2004 September 28, Tracey Dalton, The Food and Beverage Handbook, Lansdowne: Juta and Company Ltd., →ISBN, →OL, page 48:

If your wine waitron smells the cork, s/he's probably a beginner at this game because you can tell absolutely nothing by smelling the cork.

2008 February 1, Jenny Ratcliffe-Wright, Spit Or Swallow: A Guide for the Wine Virgin, Lansdowne: Double Storey, →ISBN, →OL, page 89:

Come back here with your cut glass, posh English accent and waitrons everywhere will melt at your feet.

2010 May 10, Sam Cowen, “Jo'burg and London, relatively speaking”, in Daily Telegraph, →ISSN:

(nonstandard, rare) A waiter or waitress.


brass band

(music) A group of musicians who play brass instruments (sometimes accompanied by percussion)


ethnolinguist

A scholar of ethnolinguistics; a linguistic anthropologist who studies the language of a specific ethnic group.


geoscientist

A scholar or researcher in geoscience, an inclusive term for the earth sciences.


trashman

(US, Canada) Someone whose job it is to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.


garbage man

(Australia, US, Canada) Someone, usually male, whose job it is to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.


money changer

The money changer gave me rupees for my dollars.

And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, […]

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 21:12:

A person who will exchange currency of one type for another for a fee or percentage.


repairer

And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 58:12:

The men on the freight trains, who go over the whole length of the road, bow to me as to an old acquaintance, they pass me so often, and apparently they take me for an employee; and so I am. I too would fain be a track-repairer somewhere in the orbit of the earth.

1854, Henry David Thoreau, chapter IV, in Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, published 1910, pages 151–2:

1987, Nadine Gordimer, A Sport of Nature, New York: Alfred Knopf, p. 168,
Where the European city grid of right angles was overgrown and broken up by the purposeful tangle of African pursuits—the shortest point-to-point meander taken on foot between barbers and fruit-sellers, scribes and bicycle repairers—to be white was to feel invisible; only a sensuous self-assurance, while it lasted, could counter that.


anaesthesiologist

(British spelling) Alternative spelling of anesthesiologist


glover

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From Middle English glovere; equivalent to glove + -er.


paleoceanographer

A scholar or researcher of paleoceanography, the study of the development of the oceans in the geologic past.


movie star

A leading actor in a movie, especially one perceived as a celebrity.


moviemaker

Part of why Mr. Dick’s work appeals so much to moviemakers is his pulpish sensibility.

2007 May 6, Charles Mcgrath, “A Prince of Pulp, Legit at Last”, in The New York Times:

The outrage that greeted The Silence—howls of bishops, scissorings of censors, even feces-smeared toilet paper sent to the director—denoted public horror at a morally serious moviemaker surrendering (it seemed) […]

2010, Maaret Koskinen, Ingmar Bergman's The Silence, →ISBN:

A person who makes movies as a profession; a cinematographer.


austringer

From Middle English ostreger, ostringer, borrowed from Old French ostruchier, austruchier.

Just as in modern shooting, you must never offer criticism to the man in command, so in hawking it was important that no outside advice should be allowed to disturb the judgment of the austringer.

1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter I, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):

(falconry) A falconer who uses accipiters for hunting.


neuroscientist

Most neuroscientists would be very sceptical of claims that consciousness of any sort could exist independently of a living brain. There is a growing consensus that consciousness, like life, weather, and cricket, is just another part of the natural world – albeit one that is reluctant to divulge its secrets. But it is unwise to dismiss reports of near-death experiences, which are usually reported after traumatic life-threatening events such as heart attacks.

2013 August 23, Anil Seth, “Near-death experience”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 11, page 20:

A scientist whose speciality is neuroscience.

neurocientífic

scientist whose specialty is neuroscience


tromboner

(nonstandard) A person who plays a trombone.


archeologist

(chiefly US) Alternative spelling of archaeologist


floorperson

en-noun

floorperson (plural floorpeople or floorpersons)

floorpeople (plural)
floorpersons (plural)

The person who works the floor (deals with customers), a floor manager.


floor manager

The floor manager will then make a thorough inspection together with the foreman to see that all containers, whether of parts or chain, are properly labeled.

1919 November, Factory: The Magazine of Management, volume 23, page 1044:

The 16th matter occurred when an Assistant Floor Manager was walking past Area 3 on the casino floor.

2007, Labor Arbitration Information System, volume 2, page 142:

The floor manager looked at Bob's recent edged creation and liked it well enough to order four more just like it.

2012, Joe Kertzman, Greatest Loveless Knife Designs:

A manager who works on the shop floor and may directly interact with customers.


ballerino

ballerino (plural ballerinos or ballerini)

/ˌbæləɹˈiːnoʊ/

As aware as you are, though, consider how much more keenly the leaping ballerinas and ballerinos of the world feel the tow with every move they make.

2007 June 17, David Colman, “The Merman of La Scala”, in New York Times:

The star male ballet performer of a company.


venter

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Venters suffer interpersonally as others avoid their outburst, they become isolated and alone which may result in more venting.

2006, David Laton, Developing Positive Workplace Skills and Attitudes, →ISBN, page 72:

One who vents, who is vocal about feelings or problems.


safecracker

His fingers were slender and delicate, an evolutionary advantage for a safecracker.

2023, Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto, Fleet, page 281:

касоразбивач

translation one who practices safecracking


repairman

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A male repairer, a man who repairs things.


rent-a-cop

From rent + a + cop, modelled after the brand name Rent-a-Car.

“What got into you tonight? Why'd you pull that scene at the arcade? I had to mess up this rentacop^([sic]) came after me with nunchucks.”

1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 24:

(colloquial, derogatory) A private security guard, usually one regarded as inferior to and less skilled than a true law enforcement officer.


sex worker

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Like the scripted scenarios mouthed by sex workers on 1-900 porn lines, our sexual language has become stilted and rehearsed.

1993 October, Michael Bronski, “The Lost Language of Desire”, in Gay Community News, page 12:

Most official attempts to monitor the health of sex workers have been designed to protect clients and society

1995. Lesley Doyal, "What makes women sick: gender and the political economy of health", Page 226

Many were initiated into sex work through friends who were already sex workers, but others took the initiative themselves.

1999. Peter Aggleton, "Men who sell sex: international perspectives on male prostitution", Page 44

In an unusual move, Florida prosecutors charged not only the sex workers advertised on the Web site, but also the Web site owners and registered users of the site.

2010. Marshall Barron Clinard, Robert F. Meier, "Sociology of Deviant Behavior", Page 350

A person who supplies sex work (short-term sexual services) in exchange for compensation.

عامل بالجنس

person who supplies sexual services for money


tennisman

From French tennisman. Equivalent to tennis + -man.

Im a tennisman who love playing tennis :-)

1996 January 31, baudry christophe, “Tennis Pictures ???? Where ???”, in news.newusers.questions (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-17:

René Lacoste was known as a tennisman in the late 20's or early 30's. Well before my time, but there are books and magazines.

1999 August 7, Pierre Jelenc, “loanwords without source”, in sci.lang (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-17:

For sweet^([sic]) in your eyes the best is a head band in towell^([sic]) tissue like the tennismen wear.

2001 August 7, Carlos Klimann, “Which eyeware^([sic]) for hard contact wearer?”, in rec.bicycles.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-17:

Viktor has "captured" the most beatiful^([sic]) grilfriend I've ever seen for a tennisman.

2010 May 28, Manuel aka Xax, “Men's Side - Matches Ups, Upsets?”, in rec.sport.tennis (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-17:

(non-native speakers' English) A male tennis player.


rugby player

A person who plays rugby, especially professionally.


nailist

(rare) Someone whose occupation is to trim and beautify the fingernail or toenails; a manicurist, in Japan and parts of Southeast Asia.

ネイリスト

someone whose occupation is to trim nails


gunner

Cebuano: gunner

gonna (non-rhotic, based on the /ˈɡʌn.ə/ pronunciation)

From Middle English gonner; equivalent to gun + -er.

(military) An artillery soldier, especially one who holds private rank.


cabin boy

(dated) A boy or young man who is employed to serve as an attendant for passengers or crew members on a ship.


shoeshiner

Finally, with the help of a group of shoeshiners, everything is clarified, the police arrest the criminals; Arlindo is set free.

2012, E. Bueno, Amácio Mazzaropi in the Film and Culture of Brazil:

A person who shines shoes and other footwear, usually for a fee.


centre-back

Ferguson was incensed as referee Martin Atkinson pointed to the spot - and United's sense of injustice deepened when Nemanja Vidic was sent off in stoppage time after receiving a second yellow card for a foul on Ramires, ruling the centre-back out of the visit to Liverpool on Sunday.

2011 March 1, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC:

(soccer) A central defender, a player who plays in the centre of defence, just in front of the goalkeeper


gleeman

From Middle English gleman, gleoman, from Old English glēomann, glīġman, corresponding to glee (“music; minstrelsy; entertainment”) + man. Cognate with Scots gle-man, gleman (“gleeman, minstrel”).

af

The ancient Celts carefully distinguished the poet, who was originally a priest and judge as well and whose person was sacrosanct, from the mere gleeman.

1948 (revised 1952), Robert Graves, The White Goddess, Faber & Faber 1999, p. 17

(historical) A professional singer, bard, or other entertainer.


clergyperson

en-noun

clergyperson (plural clergypersons or clergypeople)

clergypersons (plural)
clergypeople (plural)

Holonym: clergy

A cleric; especially, an ordained (male or female) Christian minister.

свяшчэннаслужы́цель

ordained (male or female) Christian minister, male or female member of the clergy


divo

A male diva; a man with the traits characteristic of a typical diva.


clockmaker

Coordinate term: watchmaker

A person who makes and/or maintains clocks.


escape artist

An entertainer who performs escapes from perilous situations such as cages, coffins, and straitjackets.


missionary-linguist

although we do not meet among the missionary linguists that marvellous variety of languages which excites our wonder, yet we find in them abundant evidences of a solid and practical scholarship

1858, C. W. Russell, The Life of Cardinal Mezzofanti, page 29:

While he had fulfilled what was expected of him as a missionary linguist, his eagerness for the welfare of the Africans led him to occupy himself with other plans

1881, John Ebenezer Honeyman Thomson, Memoir of George Thomson, Cameroon Mountains, West Africa, by one of his nephews, page 20:

the valuable work of the excellent and indefatigable missionary-linguist, the late Father Marcoux, on the Iroquois language, is about to be published by the Bureau of ethnology.

1883, H. Hale, “The Iroquois institutions and language”, in Science, volume 2, number 36, page 497:

Even the famous missionary-linguist J.G. Christaller could not break away from the spell of this 'priestcraft'-theory.

1979, J.G. Platvoet, “The Akan Believer and his Religions”, in Official and Popular Religion: Analysis of a Theme for Religious Studies, page 595:

Many missionary-linguists leave the familiarity of their home and their social network to go spend many years (often decades) in local communities, learning the local language and local customs and beliefs.

2006, Lenore A. Grenoble, Lindsay J. Whaley, Saving Languages: An Introduction to Language Revitalization, page 196:

A missionary who seeks to study a people's language in order to facilitate religious conversion.


rig pig

And, of course, they can maintain control of half a dozen shit-scared rig pigs.

2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse, page 95:

"Rig pigs are welders that drive souped up pick-up trucks with all their gear in the back and they spend weeks at sites welding. […]" "[…] You should know that. You're from Alberta!"

2006, Laurie Hannan, The Gamble, page 118:

You are truly a fucking champion and thank you for bringing a smile to a rig pig's wife!

2007, Paul Carter, This Is Not a Drill: Just Another Glorious Day in the Oilfield, page 238:

(oil industry, slang) A worker on an oil rig; a roughneck.


geroscientist

A scientist whose speciality is geroscience.


steerer

/ˈstɪəɹə(ɹ)/

It isn't long before the casino help are telling their friends not to patronize the joint, and they in turn tell their friends, and in a very short time hundreds of people know all about it. At this point, the only way to get action is to hire a flock of steerers […]

1961, John Scarne, Complete guide to gambling, page 232:

A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.


bozal

From Spanish bozal (“recently-imported slave; noseband”). Doublet of bossale and bosal.

bossale

slave born in Africa, especially in a French colony

(historical) A (black) slave recently brought to a (European, especially Spanish) colony from Africa.

The more tightly these nosebands are attached, the more the horse is likely to raise his head and nose. For ordinary pleasure riding, attach this equipment to allow one or two fingers sideways between the bozal and the underside of the jaw.

2005, Lee Ziegler, Easy-Gaited Horses: Gentle, humane methods for training and riding gaited pleasure horses, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 54:

(uncommon) Alternative form of bosal (“noseband on a horse”)


bozal

(historical) Of a slave, recently brought to a colony from Africa.


administratrix

en-noun

administratrix (plural administratrices or administratrixes)

administratrices (plural)
administratrixes (plural)

The Princess Sophia was named in the act of settlement […] not for her merits as a temporary administratrix of a power, which she might not, and in fact did not, herself ever exercise.

1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 24:


fisherwoman

/ˈfɪʃəˌwʊmən/

She is a fisherwoman, out on a trawler for days at a time.

“My parents were fishermen.” He turned to me and smiled, “Shall I call my mother a fisherwoman? Does that suit you?”

2018, Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, HarperVoyager, page 139:

A woman whose profession is catching fish.


tribute band

(music) A group of musicians and singers which exists solely to play the music of a well-known band that has disbanded or no longer tours.


cheesemaker

From Middle English chese-maker, chese-makere, equivalent to cheese + maker. Displaced Old English ċīeswyrhta.

A person skilled in the art of making cheese


air marshal

(British, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, military) A military rank between that of air vice-marshal and air chief marshal, equivalent to an army lieutenant general.


bookman

From Middle English bocman, from Old English bōcmann (“bookman, a holder of bookland”), equivalent to book + man.

inh

(historical, Old English law) One who held bookland.

A studious or learned man; a scholar; a student of books.

One who sells or publishes books; a bookseller.


hogreeve

(obsolete) A civil officer charged with the duty of impounding hogs running at large.


boatwright

From Middle English botwright, botwrythe, equivalent to boat + wright.

From the early fourteenth century onwards, the hospital employed a cook and his assistant, along with an assortment of hired hands, including a laundress, a palfreyman, a boatwright, a smith and a swineherd.

1999, Carole Rawcliffe, Medicine for the Soul:

A maker of boats, especially of traditional wooden construction.


strummer

One who strums a stringed musical instrument.


fire chief

A leader of a fire station; an officer in charge of firemen and fighting fires.


cornetist

The cornetist’s sombre repertoire had made her spirits drop.

2022, Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety, Doubleday, page 85:


bridgekeeper

She wasn't aware that she was gawking with her mouth open until the bridgekeeper extended a hand, palm up, and waited in silence.

2014, Alisha Nurse, The Return of the Key:


physical therapist

en-noun

physical therapist (plural physical therapists)

(US) A therapist who treats physical injury or dysfunction, usually with exercise.


environmental scientist

environmental scientist (plural environmental scientists)

environmental science
environmental science

A scientist whose speciality is environmental science.


lifie

2003, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Four Corners program, The Super Chargers, 18 February
Many of the industry's bad habits seem to have been inherited from the financial planners' predecessors - the 'lifies', as they were known.

(Australia, insurance, informal) A life insurance salesman or saleswoman.


flower girl

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phytopathologist

A scientist who specializes in phytopathology; a plant pathologist


white hat

(computing, computer security, slang) A well-meaning hacker who hacks for a good cause or to aid a company, organization, or government without causing harm (for example, to identify security flaws).


directress

And now a maiden […] ſupplied them, next, / With a reſplendent table, which the chaſte / Directreſs of the ſtores furniſh'd with bread / And dainties, remnants of the laſt regale.

1791, Homer, “[The Odyssey.] Book I.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 9, lines 172 and 174–177:


baggage handler

baggage handler (plural baggage handlers)

One employed at airports to move baggage and other cargo between the aeroplanes and the terminal.


sky girl

(aviation, dated, now offensive) A female flight attendant.


scenographer

A person who designs sets for film or television.


arm-wrestler

So you think you are an arm-wrestler, do you? Bring it on.


tail gunner

One who operates the gun or guns in the tail of a military aircraft, usually a bomber.

peräampuja

one who operates the gun in the tail of a military aircraft


make-up artist

A person who applies makeup and prosthetics for theatrical, television, film, fashion, magazines and similar productions.

grimeerder

artist who applies makeup for theatrical, television, or film productions


cuddler

At the Children's Hospital, an active cuddler's program was developed to provide stimulation for infants whose parents found it difficult to visit on a regualar basis. Cuddlers are recruited from within the hospital and the local community.

1995, David Walter Adams, Eleanor J. Deveau, Beyond the Innocence of Childhood:

A volunteer program at St. Vincent Children's Hospital is aimed at taking care of the littlest patients. Nancy Franciscy is one of 15 cuddlers at St. Vincent. The cuddlers are volunteers in the neonatal intensive care unit. The program began in the fall.

2007 April, People, places and things, ABC News:

(chiefly US) Someone who volunteers or works in a hospital by caring for babies (by showing human touch, giving cuddles etc.)


fictionist

Just as the Muslim world was vibrating to the ‘insult’ visited on the Prophet Muhamed (Peace Be Upon Him) by an Anglo-Pakistani fictionist of genius and renown, the British and American mass audience was thrilling to the reborn version of David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia.

1989, Christopher Hitchens, ‘Siding with Rushdie’, London Review of Books, volume 11, number 20:

One who deals in fiction; a writer of fiction, a novelist.


bell ringer

Inherited from Middle English belringer, belle ringer, bellryngar, belryngere, equivalent to bell + ringer.

A person, especially one of a group, who rings bells.


customs officer

customs officer (plural customs officers)


lobsterman

A fisherman (male or female) for lobsters.

Coordinate term: lobsterwoman

A male fisher of lobster, masculine of lobsterwoman.

So they are unprepared when the lobsterman, in a symbolic evolutionary leap, cracks his shell and steps out as the rock superman; and, unappreciated, he is left to attempt suicide at the end.

2014, Gerald M. Berkowitz, American Drama of the Twentieth Century:

The movie nods to Robot Monster by giving the lobsterman a sidekick who is a gorilla with a space helmet.

2016, Thomas Kent Miller, Mars in the Movies: A History:

As the show progressed during its second season, the Cold War villains disappeared and Voyage settled into an entertaining, kid-friendly “monster of the week” formula, with the Seaview crew encountering aquatic beasts, ghosts, aliens, dinosaurs, an evil brain, a lobsterman, an ancient alchemist, and even a werewolf.

2018, Michael Eury, “Irwin Allen: Voyage to the Bottom of...the Barrel??”, in RetroFan, volume 3, page 33:

Poor Lobsterman. Out there living among regular men with regular hands. Misunderstood. Impaired, Shunned.

2020, Mary Laura Philpott, I Miss You When I Blink: Essays, page 42:

(fiction) A fictional alien or monster that looks like a lobster/human hybrid.


quaternarist

Indeed, in recent years, the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) "abolished" the Quaternary, according to riled quaternarists.

2008 January 25, Richard A. Kerr, “A Time War Over the Period We Live In”, in Science, 319(5862), page 402:

(geology, paleontology) A specialist in the Quaternary period.


link boy

“Servants is in the arms o' Porpus, I think,” said the short chairman, warming his hands at the attendant link-boy’s torch.

1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:

By the early eighteenth century link-boys had long been part of London's criminal and sexual mythology.

2009, Dan Cruikshank, The Secret History of Georgian London, Random House, page 94:

(historical) A boy employed to carry a torch or other light at night to help people navigate through the streets.


neurophysiologist

A scientist who studies neurophysiology.


origamist

/ɔɹɪˈɡɑmɪst/


district attorney

district attorney (plural district attorneys)

(US) The title of the local public official who represents the government in the prosecution of alleged criminals.

fiscal

the title of the local public official who represents the government in the prosecution of alleged criminals


weaponsmith

A person skilled at making edged weapons

våbensmed

a person skilled at making edged weapons


web developer

(computing, Internet) A person who develops applications designed to be used via the World Wide Web.


web designer

(computing) A person who designs (and sometimes creates) web sites

verkkosivujen suunnittelija

person who designs and creates web sites


callboy

→ Cebuano: callboy

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(Philippines, slang) A public transport barker (a man, who for a fee, calls out the destination of jeepneys and buses)

(humorous) A man who works as a call center agent. (see usage notes)

It was exciting being a callboy, riding a pushbike in all directions in Fremantle City, waking-up the engine-crews for work.

2010, David Hunt, Era of Steam Engines, Volume 1, Chapter 3, Being a Callboy, Lulu.com:

A youth employed to wake people up for work.


stocker

We mean by this that a man who has become great as a stocker would not necessarily know anything about barrel-boring, anything about actioning, anything about lock-making, nor anything about shooting.

1900, George Teasdale, Experts on Guns and Shooting, Sampson Low, Marston & co., page 307:


allergologist

(rare) An allergist (a physician specializing in the treatment of allergies).


ethnographer

First, some ethnographers would argue that reconceptualizing groupness is necessary to better understand sharedness as a quality of group communication.

2002, Lawrence R. Frey, New Directions in Group Communication:

The second stage in the process by which African cultural realities are often mistransformed through mistranslation by ethnographers is associated with the urgent demand for 'theories' to assist the ethnographer in organising his field data and in presenting the conclusions derived from the data.

2012, Helen Lauer, Kofi Anyidoho, Reclaiming the Human Sciences and Humanities Through African Perspectives, page 87:


coalman

A coal miner (as distinguished from other type of miners).

въглекопач

a coal miner (as distinguished from other type of miners)


patissier

Coordinate term: pâtissière


auto mechanic

(US) A person skilled in repairing and maintaining automobiles and other motor vehicles.


printer's devil

printer's devil (plural printer's devils or printers' devils)

printer's devils (plural)
printers' devils (plural)

The latest of the personal magazinettes to come under our observation is The East Side, a peculiarly New York product, of which Zoe Anderson Norris, of 338 East Fifteenth street, is printer's devil […]

1909, The Independent, volume 67, page 711:


chief operating officer

chief operating officer (plural chief operating officers)

chief executive officer
chief executive officer

(business) A corporate officer of a corporation, company, or agency, responsible for executing decisions of the chief executive officer (CEO) according to their decided schedule; often initialised as COO.

營運長 /营运长

a corporate officer responsible for executing decisions of CEO


Cpl

(military, US) Abbreviation of corporal.


onnagata

/ˌɒnəˈɡɑːtə/

From Japanese 女形 (おんながた, onnagata), a compound of 女 (おんな, onna, “woman”) + 形 (かた, kata, “form”).

A male actor who plays female roles in Japanese kabuki theatre.


postimpressionist

The postimpressionists went much further in augmenting the limited evidence of our eyes with material of the mind.

2003, John H. Lienhard, Inventing Modern: Growing up with X-Rays, Skyscrapers, and Tailfins:

A painter of the style of postimpressionism.


security guard

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Haz sits in the trailer for 10 hours straight, eyes trained on the patrons. If he sees the makings of a drug deal or a fight, he notifies the club’s in-house security by walkie-talkie. It amazes him how indiscreet drug dealers can be—with the bulges in their socks and their melodramatic handovers—despite the presence of security guards.

2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-06-14:

A person who is employed to provide security for people or property.

vartija

security for property or enumerated persons


Heraclitus

From Latin Hēraclītus, from Ancient Greek Ἡράκλειτος (Hērákleitos).

An Ancient Greek male given name from Ancient Greek, notably borne by Heraclitus of Ephesus, a pre-Socratic Ionian philosopher


Thales

A pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Miletus in Asia Minor.


aerologist

One who studies, or is knowledgeable in, aerology.


jizz-mopper

I haven't seen titties like that since I was a jizz mopper at the Pearl Tongue!

2005, Joseph L. Stone, Mad Season: (Changing Stations), iUniverse, →ISBN, page 90:

I'll make damn sure his next job in Hollywood is the assistant jizz mopper at a peep show on El Centro

2003, Dayton Ward, The Last World War, Pocket Star, →ISBN, page 326:

(vulgar, slang) A person whose job is to clean up semen at a sex-related establishment.


body snatcher

From body + snatcher. Later use highly influenced by the 1955 novel The Body Snatchers and its repeated adaptation into film, wherein aliens begin replacing humans with pod people.

ligrøver

One who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave

They proved to be two of those Body-Snatchers, called hired Constables, who were patrolling the Fields.

Look here, my body-snatchers, you have unlawfully abridged the liberty of one of the sons of the sovereign State of New York!

(slang, humorous, derogatory, obsolete) One who makes arrests, such as a bailiff or policeman.

A black woman told Carrie not to say master and missis, because you were body-snatchers and slave-drivers.

1852, B.R. Hall, Frank Freeman's Barber Shop, xiv. 252:

Girls who can't let a man go by without reaching out for him. That's what I call them—body snatchers.

1894 September, Harper's Magazine, 581/2:

McCulloch had no compunction about using these executive recruiting firms. They were, he knew, often derisively called ‘body snatchers’, ‘head hunters’, ‘flesh peddlers’, and ‘pirates’.

South claims hundreds abducted by North Korea's ‘body snatchers’.

1994 August 9, “Newswire”, in Associated Press:

‘What are you looking at?’
‘An alien body snatcher who stole my partner and took her place.’

2000, C. Golden, Head Games, section 166:

One who abducts or controls another's body, such as a slaver, psychic, or human resources agent.

Body-snatcher, a stealer of dead bodies from churchyards; which are sold to the surgeons and students in anatomy.

1819, J. H. Vaux, “New Vocab. Flash Lang.”, in Memoirs:

So emboldened and careless did these body-snatchers become... that they no longer confined themselves to pauper graves.

1910, Encyclopædia Britannica, I. 937/2:

(historical) One who sells cadavers to anatomists, surgeons, etc., especially by exhuming corpses from graves, a resurrection man.

The head of a ring of bodysnatchers who stole the bones of broadcaster Alistair Cooke pleaded guilty yesterday.

2008 March 19, Daily Record, Glasgow, section 9:

(in particular) A graverobber who steals bodies or body parts.

No men could have behaved more admirably than my Imperial bearer companies, or 'body snatchers,' as the men used to call them.

1917, General Buller, quotee, Military Medicine, volume 40, Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 341:

Freezing conditions in the hills make essential the quick evacuation of wounded, and their regimental mates are full of praise for the sterling job done by the cheerful, tireless “body-snatchers” of the Battalion.

1951, Great Britain. Army. Royal Army Medical Corps, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, volumes 96-97, J. Bale, Sons & Danielson, Limited, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 410:

Tom dismounted and led Toby toward a group of men standing by a stack of stretchers. “Hey, you body snatchers,” he called out. “I have a wound that needs dressing.” He tied Toby to a stretcher.

2011, Robert W. Mackay, Soldier of the Horse, TouchWood Editions, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 185:

(British, military, slang) A stretcher-bearer.


crowkeeper

(obsolete) A person employed to scare off crows.


noodler

(music, sometimes derogatory) One who improvises.

(Australia, mining) A fossicker, someone who scours mine dumps for valuables.


free-diver

(underwater diving) A practitioner of free-diving.


chorus line

A line of performers in a revue or other show, dancing in unison.

芭蕾舞團 /芭蕾舞团

a line of performers in a revue or other show, dancing in unison