gitarrist

what the fuck do i care about some heavy metal poser jackass hardrock gitarrist?

1996 April 2, Johann Jacoby, “Abo Joke and Nigger Joke”, in alt.skinheads (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-12:

GUITAR SPEAK ('No Speak' Label, Cat No EIRSA 1025)
An instrumental sampler only with gitarrists. Tony Iommi appears with one track called 'Miranha' which means 'Goddess Of Death'.

1998 May 11, jourg...@hotmail.com, “The Black Sabbath FAQ v1.00 [large] pt 4”, in alt.music.black-sabbath (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-12:

Hallo Gitarrists.

1998 December 31, Jerry Manley, “Guitar-Pro”, in alt.guitar.tab (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-12:

Anybody will tell you that Mr. Green has influnced^([sic]) many many great current gitarrists including Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck ,Mick taylor Steve Morse and the late great Mike Bloomfield , ammong^([sic]) others .

1999 July 4, victor m mora, “Fleetwood Mac,”, in alt.music.deep-purple (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-12:

do country gitarrists use wah-wah pedals. I saw just a few weeks ago Rock-gitarrists using all the same wah-wah pedal 'cry baby'. Is it the best? And what's about pedal-steel, is it done with the volume pedal.

2000 May 3, Roland Mueller VS/ESH3 #49458, “Do country gitarrists use wah-wah”, in alt.guitar.effects (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-12:

Yes, the solo shows what a fine rock-gitarrist Ritchie could be :-(

2001 August 14, Karl-Heinz Baier, “Fires at Midnight solo”, in alt.music.deep-purple (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-12:

Would you post the lyrics to that song? I also wrote a song about unicycling... well there are two at the moment. Punk-Songs (Hmm, Unipunk :D). So, when we make it into a studio I will post them here, too. First I guess we have some accoustic^([sic]) version ready. I recently finished with the second song and our gitarrist is on the rythm^([sic]) (I'm the drummer, chaos and that haha *g*).

2006 October 2, gossi, “A Unicycle Song..LISTEN TO IT!!!”, in rec.sport.unicycling (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-12:

(non-native speakers' English) Misspelling of guitarist.


lord protector

The head of state of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland.


hello girl

/həˈləʊ ˌɡɜːl/

/hɛˈloʊ ˌɡɝl/

From the fact that the telephone operators would greet callers with “Hello” when contacted.

The latest model of the multiple switch-board is in position, and in a few days the "Hello" girls will render complete the inside view of a modern telephone exchange.

1884 September, “The International Electrical Exhibition at Philadelphia, Sept. 2, 1884”, in F. L. Pope, editor, The Electrician and Electrical Engineer. A Monthly Review of Theoretical and Applied Science, volume III, New York, N.Y.: Electrical Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, page 193, column 2:

Surely, we must include the Long-Distance Telephone among the electrical achievements of the year. And if we may add the automatic switch-board, by which the services of the "hello-girl" are to be dispensed with; and if the new company, just formed in Chicago, fulfill its promise to give us telephone service at half the present rates, it will afford us an illustration of "applied science," which I am sure we shall be quick to appreciate.

1893, J[ohn] T. Pettee, “Annual Address: A Review of the Year 1892 by the President”, in Transactions of the Scientific Association, Meriden, Conn., Meriden, Conn.: Press of E. A. Horton & Co., →OCLC, page 17:

The humblest hello-girl along ten thousand miles of wire could teach gentleness, patience, modesty, manners, to the highest duchess in Arthur's land.

1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Sandy’s Tale”, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC, page 177:

Now imagine that the main automatic exchange is out of service and all those calls have to be made the old-fashioned way, by hello girls, taking ten times as long.

2001, Ken Follett, chapter 17, in Jackdaws, London: Macmillan, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Dutton, 2002, →ISBN, page 162:

(telephony, informal, dated) A female telephone operator.

sentraalisantra

(informal) female telephone operator — see also telephone girl


sailmaker

From Middle English *sayl-makere, equivalent to sail + maker. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sailmoaker, West Frisian seilmakker, Dutch zeilmaker, German Low German Seilmaker, German Segelmacher, Danish sejlmager, Swedish segelmakare.

(US, naval) An officer in the United States navy who takes charge of the sails.


sea rover

Compare Danish sørøver, German Seeräuber, Norwegian sjørøver, Swedish sjörövare.

1549, “A Proclamacion, for tale tellers” in All such proclamacions, as haue been sette furthe by the Kynges Maiestie, London, 1551, pp. lvi-lvij,
[…] there be dispersed and seuered abrode, sundery light, leude, idle, sedicious, busie, and disordered persones, whereof the moste part haue neither place to inhabite in neither seketh any staye to liue by, but hauyng been either condempned of Felonies, & prison breakers, runne from the warres and sea rouers, departed from the kynges guarrisons, and loyterers, whereby thei become desperate persons […]

1843 April 18, New York Insurance Co. et al., "To Commander A.S. Mackenzie", Niles National Register vol. 64 http://books.google.com/books?id=ZSqY7wD2xYgC, page 179, originally published in the New York American,
The turning of your ship into a sea-rover would have made the entire ocean a scene of outrage, rapine, and murder.

It was a ridiculous scheme, both as to the force which was to take the ship, and her employment as a buccaneer -- the state of the ocean and of navigation being such at that time as to leave a sea-rover, pursued as he would be by the fleets of all nations, without a sea to sail in, without a coast to land on, without a rock or corner to hide in.

1858, Thomas Hart Benton, Thirty Years' View: Or, A History of the Working of the American Government, vol. 2, page 546:

A pirate, buccaneer or privateer; an ocean-going marauder.


dialectician

/ˌdʌɪəlɛkˈtɪʃn/

/ˌdaɪəlɛkˈtɪʃən/


chuckler

From Tamil சக்கிலி (cakkili), denoting a member of a sub-caste of Dalits often employed in shoemaking.

(India, archaic) A shoemaker, a cobbler.


bandmate

Someone with whom one shares membership in a band.

Bandmitglied

someone with whom one shares membership in a band


modiste

All the colours of the rainbow, materialised by modistes, were there.

Her dresses – about 150 each year – are made by Rose Bertin, an expensive but necessary modiste with premises on the rue Saint-Honoré.

1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 46:

A person who makes or sells fashionable women's clothing, especially dresses or hats.


chemometrician

(chemistry) A scientist or statistician who specialises in chemometrics.


glycoscientist

A scientist whose speciality is glycoscience


basketballer

In fact the latter are likely to develop muscles of the kind and strength that may even be a handicap to the Nth degree basketballer.

1967, Greyson Daughtrey, Methods in Physical Education and Health for Secondary Schools, page 73:

For the basketballer on the court, it expresses itself in individual play: running, passing, defending, shooting for goal.

2000, Bob Mierisch, On the Level: Striving for Openness to Build Corporate Strength, page 72:

The most famous sportsman rumoured to come for a round here was basketballer Michael Jordan, who flew in just for the midnight golf experience.

(informal) A basketball player; a person who plays basketball.


reckoner

/ˈɹɛkənə(ɹ)/

From Middle English reknere, rekenere, by surface analysis, reckon + -er. Cognate with Afrikaans rekenaar, Dutch Low Saxon rekener, German Rechner, Danish regner, Swedish räknare.

“No. Not quite a month.—It is only four weeks to-morrow since I left Mansfield.”
“You are a most accurate and honest reckoner. I should call that a month.”

1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XLII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:

middle-aged (-ajd), between youth and old age, variously reckoned to suit the reckoner

1959 [1901], “middle-aged”, in William Geddie, editor, Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary, revised edition, page 672:

Some experienced New York political reckoners think the real race, in the end, will be between Democrat Richard Ottinger and Mr. Buckley.

1970 July 25, Anthony Lewis, “The Charm of Mr. Buckley”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(archaic) An accountant; one who computes or calculates.


OB-GYN

en-noun

OB-GYN (countable and uncountable, plural OB-GYNs)

(countable, initialism, acronym) A physician in these specialties; an obstetrician-gynecologist.


obstetrix

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arborist

He took night classes to get certified as an arborist and loved that so few people knew what an arborist did, so he could explain, “I’m a tree doctor.”

2022, Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You, 4th Estate (2023), page 185:

A person in the practice of arboriculture; a tree surgeon.


session band

She performed on 12 albums as a soul singer in a session band before she was able to begin her solo career.

A group of musicians who play for the recording of an album but are not considered part of the recording artist's normal band.


wedding planner

wedding planner (plural wedding planners)

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A person employed by a couple to assist them in planning, designing and coordinating their wedding day.


flooder

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The flooder may be seeking attention ("see what I can do!") or trying to disrupt the socializing in the rooms.

(Internet slang) A person who floods message boards, chat rooms etc. with unwanted or repetitive comments.


yodeller

(British) Alternative spelling of yodeler


vice-chancellor

(Christianity) In Roman Catholicism, the cardinal whose duty it is to draft and dispatch papal bulls and briefs.


pedodontist

A dentist who specializes in pedodontics, the care of children's teeth.


agrobiologist

One who studies bacteria and other organisms in soil for the purpose of growing crops or feeding animals.


havildar

Borrowed from Hindustani حوالدار (ḥavāldār) / हविलदार (havildār), from Persian حوالدار (havâldâr), from Arabic حَوَالَة (ḥawāla, “charge”) + Persian دار (dâr, “holder”).

‘There was a great fight,’ said the Havildar, ‘and of us no man escaped unhurt.’

1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Howli Thana’, Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 388:

On being congratulated by the Russian, the Gurkha havildar, or sergeant, whispered anxiously to Younghusband that he should inform the towering Gromchevsky that they were unusually small and that most Gurkhas were even taller than he was.

1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 406:

noncommissioned officer
noncommissioned officer

(South Asia) An noncommissioned officer rank in parts of India, later a specific military rank of the British Indian Army and of the modern armies of India and Pakistan, equivalent to sergeant.


spectroscopist

A scientist specialising in spectroscopy.

spectroscopiste

a scientist specialising in spectroscopy


synchronized swimmer

synchronized swimmer (plural synchronized swimmers)

synchronized swimming
synchronized swimming

(swimming) Someone who practices synchronized swimming.

Synchronschwimmer

someone who practices synchronized swimming


one-man band

A musician who plays several musical instruments at once.


sinologist

From sinology (“study of China”) + -ist (“(agent)”). Equivalent to sino- (“China”) + -logist (“student of, expert on”).


grappler

They were cheerful optimists; indomitable grapplers with forest and flood, who did almost incredible things with ax and saw and giant-powder.

1912, Harold Bindloss, Vane of the Timberlands, page 19:


bug boy

From the "bug" (asterisk) used to denote their weight allowance.


newsmonger

"Wait. I heard you have a story."
"News travels faster'n a herd of young cow ponies. Reckon you'd be the local newsmonger."
Charlie remained unfazed. "In the flesh. This ol' nose can smell a headline a mile away."

2018, Linda Broday, The Cowboy Who Came Calling:


exotic dancer

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So you want to date a stripper? If you've answered yes, you've already made a big mistake. The woman you want to date is an “exotic dancer.” If you call a dancer a stripper, you've immediately insulted her.

2004, Valentine Selena, How to Date an Exotic Dancer: For Men Who Prefer Extraordinary Women, Island Waves, LLC, →ISBN, page 9:

The U.S. has thousands of strip clubs that, some reports say, collectively take in as much as $6 billion every year. […] I spoke with Liza[…] about how she became an exotic dancer, how the adult-entertainment industry is changing with increasing priority of the internet, and why people don’t consider her job respectable.

2016 October 19, Adrienne Green, “What It’s Like to Work as an Exotic Dancer”, in The Atlantic:


cosmographer

/kɒzˈmɒɡɹəfə/

From cosmography + -er, corresponding to cosmo- + -grapher.

And if it be (as Cosmographers report) that there are Nations, who receive and admit a Dogge to be their King, it must necessarily follow, that they give a certaine interpretations to his voice and moving.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

(obsolete) Someone who describes the world; a geographer or anthropologist.


headteacher

I had to go and see the headteacher about my attitude.

(UK, Ireland) The most senior teacher in a school who is responsible for its management and administration.


spencer

From the family name Spencer. The jacket is probably named after George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834).

(historical) A short double-breasted men's overcoat worn in the 18th and 19th centuries.


reupholsterer

Coordinate term: upholsterer

Someone who reupholsters, especially a trained craftsman who does so as an occupation.


supergroup

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In 1974, David Geffen, Asylum's main man, applied his negotiating abilities to creating a country-rock supergroup along the lines of Crosby, Stills & Nash.

1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 365:

A supergroup is a rock and pop music term for a group whose members are already successful and well known, either as solo performers or part of other groups. It was first applied in 1968, to Cream, whose three members had already achieved prominence, […]

[2017, Norman Abjorensen, Historical Dictionary of Popular Music, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 487:

(music) A group of musicians, each a star of another band (especially in rock music).

supergroep

group of star musicians, from other bands


recordist

Once the materials arrived at the stage, a dozen recordists and mix technicians required a half an hour to load the three or four dozen tracks a predub might require.

2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, The Art of Movies:

Audio Devices, Inc., announce two prize contests, one for Home Recordists, and the other for Church Recordists.

1954, Kansas Music Review - Volumes 16-18, page 23:

A Concert for Three Recordists by Matthew Locke was the program piece.

1960, The American Recorder - Volumes 1-2, page 19:

The more our young recordists can be encouraged to play among themselves in groups with and without piano accompaniment, in their own homes, the better.

1961, Watkins Shaw, Music in the Secondary School, page 71:

For that matter Somary doesn't lack name performers: John Wilbraham is the trumpet soloist and one of the recordists is David Munrow.

1981, Arthur Cohn, Recorded Classical Music:


raftsman

A person who transports a raft of floating logs downstream to a sawmill; a rafter.


chorine

Their theatrical performances consisted of buxom chorines, weepy soubrettes, vaudeville acts, and a piano-pounding "professor".

1964, John Hendrix, If I Can Do It Horseback: A Cow-Country Sketchbook, page 40:

A female chorus line dancer; a chorus girl.


copy boy

(publishing) A boy employed to carry copy and run errands.


cartulary

From Middle English cartulari, borrowed from Medieval Latin chartulārium. Doublet of khaltura.

A medieval manuscript register containing full or excerpted transcriptions of important documents, especially of originally loose, single-sheet charters.

An officer who had charge of records or other public papers.


castellan

From Middle English castelain, from Old French castelain (compare modern châtelain), from Latin castellanus (“pertaining to a castle, an occupant of a castle, or a governor of a castle”), from castellum castle, citadel, diminutive of castrum fortified place. See castle. Doublet of Castilian, castellano, castellanus, and chatelain and compare chatelaine.

doublet

(obsolete) A feudal lord with a fortified manor.

The inferior secular senators are ninety-two, containing the ten crown-officers, and eighty-two castellans. The latter are again divided into thirty-three great castellans, and forty-nine little castellans.

1851, Luther Calvin Saxton, Fall of Poland, volume 2, Charles Scribner, page 442:

Castellans, often exercising control over a few villages and half a dozen small lordships, transformed their banal lordships into quasi-sovereign mini-states, independent of royal or comital sanction or control.

2003, Benno Teschke, The Myth of 1648: Class, Geopolitics, and the Making of Modern International Relations, Verso, page 86:

The wave of attacks on the castellans in 1511 followed faction-fighting in Udine, in which castellans and their families were massacred by supporters of the Savorgnan.

2015, Christine Shaw, Barons and Castellans: The Military Nobility of Renaissance Italy, Koninklijke Brill, page 47:

(chiefly historical) The governor or caretaker entrusted to oversee a castle or keep for its lord.

kështjellar

governor or caretaker of a castle or keep


CWO

chief warrant officer
w:chief warrant officer

(military, rank) Initialism of chief warrant officer.


interior designer

en-noun

interior designer (plural interior designers)

A home decor designer; a person in the business of interior design.


medical doctor

A physician; a person who holds a doctoral degree or first professional degree in medicine, and practices in that profession.


bootmaker

"He was one of those men," said Isabella, "who have no separate existence from their tailor, unless, indeed, a portion be claimed by the glover and bootmaker. I should as soon think of marrying a suit of clothes."

1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 48:


glassmaker

A person or company that makes glass or glass items.


FWK

framework knitter
framework knitter#English

(UK, census forms) Initialism of framework knitter.


framework knitter

framework knitter (plural framework knitters)

The operator of a knitting machine, especially of a stocking frame


civil enforcement officer

civil enforcement officer (plural civil enforcement officers)

(UK) A person employed to enforce parking, traffic and other restrictions and laws in England and Wales, formerly known as a parking attendant.


editor in chief

editor in chief (plural editors in chief)

The highest ranking editor on an editorial staff.


squaddie

He'll turn out to be a squaddie— a Muslim squaddie. Exactly the kind of victim they're looking for.

2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 117:

Hard men from the high flats and off-dutie squaddies threw back their pints shoulder to shoulder in its spartan public bar.

2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 164:

(slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A private in the army.


gynaecologist

In the last analysis, the fate of each individual woman rests in the hands of the gynaecologist.

1950, Moya Woodside, Sterilization in North Carolina: A Sociological and Psychological Study, University of North Carolina Press, page 56:

Since there is an important bill under study today, we are asked to hope that a gynaecologist will sit on a therapeutic committee.

1969, Canadian House of Commons, Debates, Official Report, page 8287:

During the past 5 years considerable interest has been shown by gynaecologists in the technique of laparoscopy (Steptoe, 1967; Cohen, 1970).

1972, The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, volume 12, page 194:

According to the Bill, from the moment that the embryo insertion has been completed, the authority for the gynaecologist to have an embryo in his possession immediately and automatically ends.

1984, British House of Commons, Parliamentary debates (Hansard), page 345:

Mr Shikuku: […]Was there any gynaecologist among those doctors?
Mr. Angatia: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there was a gynaecologist and also a midwife.

1995 October 31, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard), page 2287:

2009, India Today, Volume 34, Issues 36-43, page 592,
With one of the highest birth rates across the world (22.69 births per thousand), one can be sure that no gynaecologist will be without work in India.

(Australia, British spelling, Commonwealth) (Canadian spelling, also common) A physician who specialises in diseases of the female reproductive system.

طَبِيب نِسَاء

specialist in diseases of the female reproductive system


bandleader

Before Brooklyn became the World Historical Hipster Hub, there were the Hepsters of Harlem. And well before there was an Urban Dictionary for every last nuance of non-standard English, the bandleader and amateur linguist Cab Calloway cataloged some of the unique speech of the 1930s and ’40s in his Hepster’s Dictionary.

2010 July 9, J. David Goodman, “Of Local History and Hepcats”, in New York Times City Room:

By and large back then, bassists weren’t bandleaders; Mingus was an anomaly.

2024 May 1, Marcus J. Moore, “5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Bass”, in The New York Times:

A musician who conducts or leads a band of musicians.


head-shrinker

Originally US, probably by reference to slang terms like “swelled head” for someone with delusions of grandeur; a psychiatrist would remove such delusions, thus figuratively shrinking the patient's swelled head.

(slang) A psychiatrist or psychotherapist; a shrink.

(literally) One who shrinks heads, as previously done by some Amazon tribes.


stagiaire

/stɑːʒiˈɛə(ɹ)/

Borrowed from French stagiaire (“trainee, intern”).

bor+

(cycle racing) An amateur rider who is taken in by a professional team during the season.

Sydney, played by Ayo Edebiri, is the enterprising stagiaire who quickly turned her internship into a serious job. [image caption]

2023 June 23, Tejal Rao, “‘The Bear’ Finds Optimism in the Dysfunctional World of Hospitality”, in The New York Times:

(cooking) A cook or chef who works as an unpaid intern in a restaurant.


recording artist

en-noun

recording artist (plural recording artists)

A person who records music for distribution to the public.


discus thrower

(athletics) An athlete who takes part in the discus throw.


radio officer

(nautical) The person, on board ship, who sends and receives radio messages


arkwright

From Middle English arkewrytte. By surface analysis, ark + wright.

(obsolete) A maker of cabinets or chests.


squash player

Someone who competes in the sport of squash, especially at a professional level.


subadar

From Hindi सूबेदार (sūbedār) / Urdu صوبدار (sūbadār), and its source, (Indian) Persian صوبهدار (sūbadār), corresponding to صوبه (sūba, “province”) + ـدار (-dār, “in ownership of, in charge of”).

suffix

(India, Pakistan, Nepal) A noncommissioned officer rank in the armies of India and Pakistan.


buck private

Bedell Smith was a shopkeeper's son from Indiana who rose from buck private to general without the polish of West Point or a college degree.

2007, Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin, published 2008, pages 15–16:

(US, military slang) A private soldier keen ("bucking") for promotion; an ambitious private.


first lieutenant

en-noun

first lieutenant (plural first lieutenants)

lieutenant junior grade
lieutenant junior grade

(military) The second lowest rank of a commissioned officer in the United States Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps, ranking above a second lieutenant and below a captain. The rank of first lieutenant is equivalent to the naval rank of lieutenant junior grade.

(military) An equivalent rank in other military forces.


rear admiral (upper half)

rear admiral (upper half) (plural rear admirals (upper half))

United States Coast Guard
United States Coast Guard

rear admiral (lower half)
rear admiral (lower half)

(US, military, nautical) A flag officer in the United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Corps, or Public Health Service Commissioned Corps of a grade superior to a rear admiral (lower half) and junior to a vice admiral. A rear admiral (upper half) is equal in grade or rank to an Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force major general. A rear admiral (upper half) wears a two star insignia on most uniforms and a gold stripe above a broad gold stripe on the sleeve of certain dress uniforms.


rear admiral (lower half)

rear admiral (lower half) (plural rear admirals (lower half))

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Corps

rear admiral (upper half)
rear admiral (upper half)

(US, military, nautical) A commissioned officer in the United States Navy, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, or PHS Corps of a grade superior to a captain and junior to a rear admiral (upper half). A rear admiral (lower half) is equal in grade or rank to an Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force brigadier general.


janitrix

janitrix (plural janitrixes or janitrices)


instructrix

instructrix (plural instructrixes or instructrices)

instructrixes (plural)
instructrices (plural)


haymaker

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From Middle English heymakere; equivalent to hay + maker.

The saga of Newt Gingrich's ethics suddenly resembles a brawl between blindfolded boxers who flail away so wildly that each lands a haymaker on his own jaw.

1997 January 20, George Church, “Newt's Day of Deliverance”, in Time:

(informal, fisticuffs) A particularly powerful punch, especially one which knocks down an opponent, thrown like a scythe chop for cutting hay, as agricultural haymakers used to have strong arms.


punkster

From punk + -ster, with connections to youngster.

Someone, especially a young person, associated with the punk subculture or a performer of punk-influenced music.


dinner lady

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Ten years to the month after Jamie Oliver began his school food revolution – with the help of a formidable dinner lady called Nora Sands at Kidbrooke school in south London – a small inner-city primary on the other side of the Thames is doing its best to give it a new lease of life.

2015 April 4, Sally Weale, “The new dinner lady: 10 years on, can an Ottolenghi chef prove Jamie Oliver's revolution wasn't a flash in the pan?”, in The Guardian:

(British, informal) A woman employed to serve food in a school or work canteen.


lunch lady

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neonatologist

A person who studies or applies neonatology, the medical science for newborn babies.


OL

(soccer) Initialism of Olympique Lyonnais.


bebopper

For its French readers, Paris' Le Jazz Hot review was trying to explain the artistry of U.S. bebopper Charlie ("Yard-bird") Parker.

1949 May 23, “Do You Get It?”, in Time, retrieved 2014-02-11:

A bebopper whose spare, rhythmic style was shaped by his love of Thelonious Monk, he performed at countless clubs, bars and cafes in North Beach and other San Francisco neighborhoods.

2008 September 7, Jesse Hamlin, “Influential jazz pianist BJ Papa dies in S.F.”, in San Francisco Chronicle, retrieved 2008-10-02:

A musician or aficionado of the bebop genre.


descriptivist

(linguistics) Someone who records and describes actual rules regarding language usage, or who believes that linguistic norms should be defined by usage rather than theory.


bosal

From Spanish bosal, variant of bozal (“noseband; slave”). (The sense "noseband" is specifically via Mexican Spanish and was originally found in the Southwestern US.) Doublet of bozal and bossale.

At about the same time Christian Georg Andreas Oldendorp, a Moravian missionary in the Danish West Indies, recorded that some Kongos on the island performed "a certain type of baptism on the bosals [recently arrived slaves] who desire it."

2009, Bernard Bailyn, Patricia L Denault, Soundings in Atlantic History, page 108:

(uncommon) Alternative form of bozal or bossale (slave born in Africa and recently brought to a colony).


psychosomaticist

A specialist in psychosomatic disorders.


purchasing agent

purchasing agent (plural purchasing agents)

Subjoined is a statement from the purchasing agent at New-York, with a schedule giving the name, tonnage, price demanded, and cost actually paid of every vessel that has been bought by him.

1861 December 4, “Report of the Secretary of the Navy”, in New York Times, retrieved 2008-10-21:

Since taking over as mayor last January, Lee has . . . forced the resignation of the city purchasing agent because he bought $10,000 worth of water pipe without asking for bids.

1960 April 4, “Nettled Nickel-Nipper”, in Time:

The newspaper claims to have “confirmed” that Humayun Khan’s family import-export business, Pakland Corp., was a purchasing agent for Pakistan’s nuclear programme.

2004 May 25, Khalid Hasan, “Pakistan mired in another nuclear scandal”, in Daily Times, retrieved 2008-10-21:

A person or group whose job is to buy equipment, supplies, inventory, or other assets for a business or other organization.


sportsperson

sportsperson (plural sportspersons or sportspeople)

sportspersons (plural)
sportspeople (plural)

Someone who plays sport, regardless of gender.

sportist

someone who plays sport, regardless of gender


quarryman

He then described how a quarryman had bought the mineral rights of an estate at Melkridge, on the route of the Roman Wall, for twenty-one years.

1981, John Sheail, Rural Conservation in Inter-war Britain:

A man involved in quarrying (mining for stone).


mallee

[H]ence the slow progress hitherto made in the cultivation of such produce of the garden as is generally held in estimation by the European portion of the community, left as it generally is, to the simple Hindoo mallee (or gardener,) it is not to be wondered at, that our bazars want what are deemed the more delicate articles of vegetable production for the table; […]

1840, G. T. Frederic Speede, Indian Hand-book of Gardening; Containing Directions for the Management of the Kitchen and Flower Garden, etc. etc. in India: […], Calcutta: W. Thacker & Co. St. Andrew’s Library, →OCLC, page 1:

Prizes were awarded to ten other mallees for best samples of vegetables, fruits and flowers, and last though not least we have to note, that a prize of two rupees was awarded to the mallee of Robert Fulton, Esq., of Sultangunge, for a remarkably fine bunch of grapes, clearly showing that either the soil of Mr. Fulton's garden, the climate of Sultangunge, or the skill of that gentleman's gardener, are highly favorable to the growth, and bringing to maturity of this delicious fruit.

1848, “Report of Exhibitions of Vegetables, Fruits, Flowers and Agricultural Produce, Held at Bhaugulpore, on 11th February and 25th May, 1848. (Communicated by Major [T. E. A.] Napleton, Honorary Secretary Branch Agri-Horticultural Society.)”, in Journal of the Agricultural & Horticultural Society of India, volumes VI, part II (Correspondence and Selections), number 3, Calcutta: Bishop's College Press, →OCLC, page 125:

Telegram from Collector of Sylhet to Secretary Colonel Burne, No. 221; dated the 29th November 1871. Every necessary precaution taken to arrest spread of cholera: three camps formed, one for those attacked, one for the convalescents, one for the healthy. I sent down dhobies, sweepers, cooks, and mallees, last to dig trenches for burying the dead, when burning was not possible.

1871 November 29, “Cachar: Further Correspondence on the Subject of the Looshai Raids and the Consequent Hostilities (in Continuation of Paper, No. 398, of 1871)”, in Accounts and Papers: […], volumes X (East India—continued), [London]: […] The House of Commons, […], published 28 May 1872, →OCLC, page 301:

(India, South Asia) Alternative spelling of mali (“a member of a caste in South Asia whose traditional occupation is gardening; hence, any South Asian gardener”).


graffiti artist

graffiti artist (plural graffiti artists)

A person who paints graffiti in public places, especially one who specializes in high-quality work rather than vandalism.


jazzman

→ French: jazzman

→ Spanish: jazzman

I was cut out to be a jazzman the way the righteous are chosen for the church.

1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Don’t Cry, Ma”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 3:


railwayman

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The spirit of the local railwaymen in this emergency is shown by the Helensburgh fireman who heard the news at 8 a.m. on his radio and immediately went to the depot of his own accord to see what help he could give.

1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 130:

Nizan was, of course, Marxist and he did use his Marxist intelligence—although, thank God, never the jargon—to show the [economic] and emotional cost of the life of Antoine Bloye, a [working‐class] railwayman who made the painful rise to become a railway functionary and a member of the petit bourgeoisie.

1973 June 24, Barbara Probst Solomon, “The author's subject is his rage and fear”, in The New York Times:


collagist

One who makes collages, or who has made a specific collage.


pieman

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* From Middle English pyman (attested as a surname), equivalent to pie + -man.
* (caller in gambling games): Such games were once often run by sellers of pies as a sideline.

(UK, slang, obsolete) The man who called heads or tails in street gambling games of coin tossing.


colourist

One who colours; an artist with a talent for colouring


glaciologist

To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres.

1988 April 14, Richard Fifield, “Frozen assets of the ice cores”, in New Scientist, number 1608, page 28:

The 10-inch increase forecast in the new study, which does not give a timeline, could be much higher if temperatures continue to rise, as they almost certainly will, said Jason Box, a glaciologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland who was the paper’s lead author.

2022 August 29, Elena Shao, “New Research Forecasts More Dire Sea Level Rise as Greenland’s Ice Melts”, in The New York Times:


binbashi

From Ottoman Turkish بیكباشی (binbaşı, literally “leader of a thousand”).


galiongee

From Ottoman Turkish قالیونجی (“someone associated with galleon ships”) (modern Turkish kalyoncu).

(historical) A Turkish sailor. [from 19th c.]


biogeochemist

A scholar in the field of biogeochemistry.


Americanist

en-adj

Americanist (comparative more Americanist, superlative most Americanist)

more Americanist (comparative)
most Americanist (superlative)

(phonetics) Of or relating to a phonetic notation developed for transcription of Native American and European languages. See Americanist phonetic notation.


brickman

(regional) A mason who specializes in brickwork.


maltster

From Middle English maltestere, malstere; equivalent to malt + -ster.

the Maltſter will ſtir his Barley Couches till the Sprit begins to fork , five or ſix times a day or more ; it being always his Care to keep them from drying too much on the outſides

1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:

The maltster, after having lain down in his clothes for a few hours, was now sitting beside a three-legged table, breakfasting off bread and bacon.

1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd:


governor general

en-noun

governor general (plural governors general)

/ˈɡʌvənɚ ˌdʒɛn(ə)ɹəl/

/ˈɡʌv(ə)nə ˌdʒɛnɹəl/

[ˈɡɐv(ɘ̃)nɜ ˌdʒẽnɹɯ]

In 1968, as one of the projects sponsored by the federal Centennial Commission, Irma Coucill was asked to add drawings of all the Governors General and Prime Ministers since Confederation.

2005, Irma Coucill, Preface: Canada′s Prime Ministers, Governors General and Fathers of Confederation, page 7:

But in a minority government scenario, the governor general might still be called upon to play a part.

2009, Rand Dyck, Canadian Politics, page 320:

(Canada, Australia, New Zealand) An official appointed by the reigning British monarch to govern a Commonwealth realm as the monarch's representative.

حَاكِم عَامّ

governor or viceroy possessing some military authority


fortune-teller

/ˈfɔːt͡ʃuːn ˈtɛlə/

The usual exchange between English children is as follows: A: Who do you love? (referring to one of the names on the fortune-teller) B: Simon. A: S-I-M-O-N (alternately opens and shuts the device as he or she says each letter).

2006, Andrew Wright, David Betteridge, Michael Buckby, Games for Language Learning, page 137:


newshound

I recently received a firsthand report from an old friend — John A. Keel — who until last year was as skeptical a newshound as I have known.

1967, Ivan Terence Sanderson, Uninvited Visitors:

"You could, of course, have a prepared statement and when a newshound knocked at the door you could slide it out to him," said the journalist.

"I've always been a newshound and I was glued to the TV set on November 22," he recalled.

2007, David Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years:

The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.

2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:


personal trainer

personal trainer (plural personal trainers)

[H]e had little time or respect for the rich skip bitches who were his neighbours, useless fake-tanned women with plastic smiles and silicone tits who spent their husbands' money on afternoon teas, endless shopping and personal trainers.

2008, Christos Tsiolkas, The Slap, London: Atlantic Books, page 93:

Someone employed to help another with their fitness, especially by means of a personalised diet program and exercise regime.

ကာယဆရာ

someone employed to help another with their fitness


ombudsperson

ombudsperson (plural ombudspersons or ombudspeople)

ombudspersons (plural)
ombudspeople (plural)


multireedist

(music) Someone who can perform on multiple reed instruments


fusioneer

They like Sting as much as flamenco, and though the famous Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt is a strong influence, so is fusioneer Al DiMeola […]

1989, “Gipsy Kings Stay True to Musical Roots”, in Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

(music) A performer or composer of fusion music


traffic warden

(British, Hong Kong) A civilian employed by the police to regulate traffic and issue parking tickets.


cohost

en-verb

cohost (third-person singular simple present cohosts, present participle cohosting, simple past and past participle cohosted)

cohosts (present singular third-person)
cohosting (participle present)
cohosted (participle past)
cohosted (past)

Generally speaking, in a shared computing system, such as a server farm shared by multiple cohosted Web sites, common resources can be categorized into two different types: those shared in time and those shared in space.

2006, Hossein Bidgoli, Handbook of Information Security:

If you choose to cohost specific components on the same server (e.g., VMM server and database), please keep in mind that each has its own performance characteristics and resource requirements.

2011, Michael Michael, Hector Linares, Mastering Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, →ISBN, page 52:

For small and midsize scenarios, which commonly address an environment with a small number of users and few packages in a single geographical site, you might cohost all of the roles on a single server.

2015, Byron Wright, Brian Svidergol, Virtualizing Desktops and Apps with Windows Server 2012 R2 Inside Out, →ISBN:

However, it is not a Microsoft-recommended installation path and you should build your CAs on their own servers; try not to cohost them with other roles whenever possible.

2016, Jordan Krause, Mastering Windows Server 2016, →ISBN, page 115:

(computing, transitive) To store data or applications on a shared server (as in web hosting).


dogwalker

If you don't have time, hire a dogwalker.

One who walks a dog or dogs, sometimes on a professional basis.


neuropathologist

A specialist who practices neuropathology


bluesman

But creepily enough, from '30s delta bluesman Robert Johnson's beating-until-satisfied "Me and Devil Blues" to Jackie Gleason's 1954 "One Of These Days — Pow!" to Dion's face-slapping 1962 "Little Diane" to Lou Reed exclaiming "you better hit her" in "There She Goes Again" to the Intruders chasing girls and beating 'em up in their 1968 beach-soul hit "Cowboys to Girls" to the "wifebeating has been around for 10,000 years" headline fronting Guns N' Roses Lies, those in favor seem more prevalent.

1997, Chuck Eddy, The Accidental Evolution of Rock'n'roll, page 22:


newsperson

en-noun

newsperson (plural newspersons or newspeople)

newspersons (plural)
newspeople (plural)

Several prominent newspeople have lost their jobs recently.

(uncommon) A person involved in the gathering or delivery of news: a reporter or journalist.


spinner

From Middle English spynnere; equivalent to spin + -er.


booth babe

But not every company needed a hottie PR rep or "booth babe" to catch our eye.

And if a female convention specialist doesn't professionally approach the job, then she's "sitting there going, 'I don't know, I'm just a booth babe...

2006, Tom Reichert, Jacqueline Lambiase, Sex in Consumer Culture:

In my opinion, the absolute worst way to generate artificial interest is the tactic that is commonly known as the booth babe.

2006, Eric Sink, Eric Sink on the Business of Software:

A female model hired to represent a product and interact with consumers at a trade fair or similar event.


archaeobotanist

(archaeology) A person engaged in archaeobotany.


systematist

A follower of systematism; one who reduces things to a system.


Hebraist

(obsolete) A proponent of Hebrew as the language of the Zionist movement.


candyman

He was on the payroll as Marvin Movie Star's candyman, his drug connection.

This bloke looked just like a candyman with his expensive togs and the glitter of a gold watch in the lights from the car park.

2002, Elizabeth George, A Traitor to Memory:


boilerman

The Lancashire Tradesmen's Association organises craftsmen, semi-skilled and unskilled workmen on the surface other than the manipulators of coal, enginemen, boilermen and locomen; it also organises skilled craftsmen underground, although some craftsmen are organised by the Lancashire Area, which seeks to organise all underground workers including craftsmen.

1948, Report of the National Executive Committee [to The] Annual Conference, National Union of Mineworkers:

When the war in Korea began he was recalled by the Navy, serving as a boilerman technician. He came to New York in 1952, joined the Actors Studio and began to get parts both onstage and in films.

2009 January 5, Richard Severo, “Pat Hingle, Versatile Actor With Recurring Role in Batman Movies, Dies at 84”, in The New York Times:

A person who tends the fire for a steam engine.


neurochemist

A researcher or other professional in the field of neurochemistry


brewmaster

From brew + master, a calque of German Braumeister.

Garrett Oliver, the brewmaster at the Brooklyn Brewery, cites the high cost of labor and storage for these beers, which are made by hand in small lots.

2009 January 7, Eric Asimov, “Roll Out the Barrel, Open Your Wallet”, in New York Times:

A person in charge of beer production at a brewery


ratcatcher

William Shakespeare
w:William Shakespeare

(British) An insult, not widely used nowadays but made popular by William Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet.


hornist

Someone who plays the horn (any of several kinds of musical instruments).


beatboxer

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(music) A performer who imitates the sound of musical instruments, especially percussion, with his or her voice


stickman

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Then, when it was his turn to shoot, he reached out with a completely empty hand and caught the dice the stickman threw to him.

1980, John Scarne, Scarne on Dice, page 275:

The most reliable stickman on the floor, Jimmy McGuire, was running the table. Data could hear his silky tenor before he could see the player due to the dense ring of spectators around the pit.

2014, Jeffrey Lang, The Light Fantastic (Star Trek: The Next Generation), New York, NY: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 68:

A dealer in gambling who gathers the dice with a stick.

Stick candy is made by a stick puller or stickman, who pulls the hard candy after it has been boiled; […]

1903, United States. Census Office, Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900, number 270, page 1189:

(US) A person who makes confectionery by pulling candy onto a stick.

In some cases, when the property is taken from the drunken man, one of the women on some pretext steps to the door and passes it to the “stickman” standing outside, who then makes off with it.

1861, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor; […], volume IV (Those that Will Not Work), London: Griffin, Bohn, and Company, […], →OCLC, page 282:

It is doubtful if the Victorian Londoner needed any warning, for the artful mobsmen, toolers, whizzers and dippers, together with their stickman accomplices, were everywhere in the crowds, in the underground, on railway trains […]

1976, Michael Harrison, Beyond Baker Street: A Sherlockian Anthology, page 117:

(UK, slang, archaic) A pickpocket's accomplice who takes the stolen goods in case the pickpocket is searched.

There’s only one stick-man in the streets, as far as I know, I think—that has what you may call a capital in sticks. Only the other day I saw him sell a registered stick near Charing-cross.

1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor; […], volume I (The London Street-folk. Book the First.), London: [George Woodfall], →OCLC, page 438:

A stick seller, especially of walking sticks.

Our second stickman was much more behind the scenes. Earl Young was the in-house drummer at Philadelphia Records.

2019, Alon Shulman, The Second Summer of Love: How Dance Music Took Over the World, Kings Road Publishing, →ISBN:


SVP

Coordinate term: JVP

As the SVP of Talent Development and Chief Diversity Officer of L’Oréal, he and his team are working to ensure 50% of the 1,000 key positions around the world at L’Oréal are held by women. Carriers, L'Oréal homepage

(corporate) Initialism of senior vice president.


chief petty officer

chief petty officer (plural chief petty officers)

non-commissioned officer
non-commissioned officer

petty officer first class
petty officer first class

senior chief petty officer
senior chief petty officer

(US, Navy) A non-commissioned officer in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking above petty officer first class and below senior chief petty officer.


machine-gunner

(military) Someone who uses a machine gun.


Indo-Europeanist

The Nostratic hypothesis was postulated for the first time by the Danish Indo-Europeanist, Holger Pedersen, at the beginning of the 20th century. Today we suppose a Nostratic origin for Afroasiatic (Semitic, Egyptian, Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Omotic), with perhaps a rather independent position; Kartvelian, Indo-European, Uralic (Fenno-Ugric and Samoyed), Dravidian (probably together with the extinct Elamite) and Altaic (Turkic, Mongolian, Tungusian, Korean, Japanese).

1992, Václav Blazek, Who are you, homo sapiens sapiens?, page 139:

It had been assumed that the two series merged by the time of Common Balto-Slavic until the Indo-Europeanist Werner Winter proposed in the 1970s that the distinction had persisted for longer, at least between *dh and *d.

2004, Benjamin W. Fortson, Indo-European Language and Culture, page 365:

The vast majority of Indo-Europeanists posit either three or four laryngeals for the Indo-European parent language, while Dolgopolsky posits a multitude of controversial phonemes here, most conveniently subsumed under cover symbols, without further explanation as to their phonetic make-up, their vowel-coloring or lengthening effects, or their development in the Indo-European daughter languages.

2009, Allan R. Bomhard, The Glottalic Theory of Proto-Indo-European Consonantism and Its Implications for Nostratic Sound Correspondences, page 7:

Indo-European studies
Indo-European studies

(Indo-European studies) A scientist (usually a linguist or anthropologist) engaged in Indo-European studies.

հնդեվրոպաբան

person specialised in Indo-European studies


rehabber

At the time, he was a 30-year-old home rehabber and realtor who had worked on several successful projects but had not quite hit the Lincoln Park boom in a really big way.

1988 January 29, Ben Joravsky, “Can Ron Gan extend the boundaries of Lincoln Park? To West Town?”, in Chicago Reader:

(informal) A person who rehabilitates buildings.

(informal) One who is in rehab for drug abuse etc.


melodist

Debussy was the last melodist.

1929, Arthur Lourié, “An Inquiry into Melody”, in Modern Music, volume VII, number 1, page 10:

At the same time Mr. Elling has proved his finesse as a Hartman-like melodist, on multiple albums and many more stages.

2009 January 24, Nate Chinen, “Playfully Laying Claim to Songs of Two Jazz Greats”, in New York Times:


cybertutor

A tutor who teaches students via the Internet or other computer-based system rather than face-to-face


ironsmith

An East Indian barbet (Psilopogon faber) whose note resembles the sounds made by a smith.


ceramicist

Otto Natzler, a ceramicist best known for inventing glazes resembling geologic textures and colors that he applied to forms created by his wife Gertrud in a famous collaboration of more than three decades, died on April 7 in Los Angeles.

2007 April 23, Roja Heydarpour, “Otto Natzler, 99, a Ceramicist Celebrated for His Inventive Glazes”, in The New York Times:

While the work of the contemporary artists in the show is avant-garde, it does not overwhelm the colorful faience made by the Faucon family, seven generations of ceramicists who operated a factory in Apt, a town in the Luberon Valley, from 1890 until 2002.

2009 January 30, Wendy Moonan, “An Old-School Collector With Ideas on Beauty”, in New York Times:

A person who makes ceramics, such as pottery.


archaeometallurgist

(archaeology) An expert in archaeometallurgy.


needlewoman

Rosie learned to sew too and became a good needlewoman, often sitting up with her mother into the night hours.

2002, Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife, Phoenix (2012), page 228:

A woman who works with a needle; a female embroiderer, sewer, etc.


baseballer

From baseball + -er, by analogy with footballer.

Queen of the cougar pack is Madonna, the 50-year-old good-time gal who divorced 40-year-old Guy Ritchie (in part because he said she looked like a granny on stage) and then was rumoured to have hooked up with bad-boy baseballer Alex Rodriguez, 33.

2009 January 25, Bryan Patterson, “Cougars who stalk the cubs”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 2009-02-07:

(Commonwealth) A baseball player; a person who plays baseball.


chamber orchestra

chamber orchestra (plural chamber orchestras)

An orchestra of modest size, to play chamber music, yet larger than the various chamber ensembles named after their number of instruments (from duo to nonet)


geoarchaeologist

An archaeologist whose speciality is geoarchaeology


hitmaker

But those who stayed saw a strong set from the hitmaker Akon, who did “I Tried” with Bone Thugs-n-Harmony.

2007 June 5, Kelefa Sanneh, “In Search of New York at a Hip-Hop Summit”, in New York Times:

(music) A musician who frequently produces hits; a star


oddsmaker

Springsteen then threw himself into his four-song set, a highly anticipated series of songs that had Las Vegas oddsmakers taking bets on which tunes he'd select.

2009 February 2, JENNA FRYER, “Big-game musical acts put charge into crowd”, in Toronto Star:


ranchero

ranchero (plural rancheros or rancheroes)

/ɹænˈt͡ʃɛəɹoʊ/

/ɹɑːnˈt͡ʃɛəɹoʊ/

(US, or of Mexico) A ranch or rancho owner


hoopster

[…] for the new generation of hoopsters, hair is back.

2007 March 11, Alex Williams, “The Flow Isn’t Always in Their Plays”, in New York Times:


pâtissier

You're turning into a good baker, Bill, but you don't have the interest in piping and presentation to become a pâtissier.


childminder

A person employed to look after other people's children while they are away; a babysitter.

детегледачка

person who looks after other people's children


astrobiologist

A biologist whose speciality is astrobiology


bioanthropologist

Any anthropologist whose speciality is bioanthropology.


bondslave

To whom they shewed, how those marchants were / Arriv'd in place their bondslaves for to buy […].

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

One who works as a slave under an indenture; a bondsman or bondswoman.


draftsperson

draftsperson (plural draftspersons or draftspeople)

draftspersons (plural)
draftspeople (plural)


editrix

Katherine Viner wants to appoints a "1 per cent correspondent" to hound the filthy rich. As befits a possible Grauniad editrix, the NUJ misspelt her name.

2015 February 24, Patrick Kidd, “Guardian Angels Declare”, in The Times, page 11:

There is a mythos surrounding the 73-year-old editrix that inspires deference akin to that given to royalty.

2023 September 23, Lauren Indvik, “God is in the details”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:


printworker

Synonym of printmaker, a person who works making prints of works of art, (particularly) a relatively unskilled employee.


volleyballer

volleyball player
volleyball player#English


pop musician

A person who composes, plays, or sings pop music.


race queen

[…] crowds ogle the red-clad "Coca-Cola race queens" at an eight-hour motorcycle endurance race in Japan.

1993, Mark Pendergrast, For God, Country, and Coca-Cola:

[…] cafes and shops exist in Tokyo and throughout Japan, where customers can be serviced by school girls, policewomen, race queens, or "bunny girls".

(idiomatic, slang) A glamorous model accompanying the pit crew in Japanese motor racing.


indentured servant

indentured servant (plural indentured servants)

He traced back to Alfred Standing, an indentured servant, or slave if you please, who was transported from England to the Virginia plantations in the days that were even old when the youthful Washington went a-surveying in the Pennsylvania wilderness.

1915, Jack London, chapter 1, in The Star Rover:

Probably the best known of these was John Harrower, whose journal provides a fascinating insight into the life of a schoolmaster and indentured servant in late colonial Virginia.[…]He arrived in London virtually destitute and, unable to find work, soon contracted to work as an indentured servant in Virginia as a means of escaping unemployment and poverty.

2004, David Dobson, Scottish Emigration to Colonial America, 1607–1785, University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 149:

Like the others, however, he owed the contractual time to his master, who could sell the indentured servant, along with any debts owed by the servant, to someone else.

2015, Gwyn Campbell, Alessandro Stanziani, editors, Bonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean World, Routledge, →ISBN:

The book detailed how the Irish, who had first come to North America as indentured servants and were reviled by the more settled populations of English and Dutch Americans, became, by the mid-19th century, accepted as white.

2019 November 12, Sewell Chan, “Noel Ignatiev, scholar who called for abolishing whiteness, dies at 78”, in Los Angeles Times:

(chiefly historical) A debt bondage worker who is under contract of an employer for a specified period of time, in exchange for transportation, food, drink, clothing, lodging, and other necessities.


herdswoman

A woman who tends livestock, especially cows and sheep.


flosser

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A tool used for flossing the teeth, consisting of a disposable pick with floss stretched across it.

(fishing) An angler who uses a weighted hook that pierces the fish's mouth from the outside.


pyrotechnician

A person who designs or organises pyrotechnics.

pyrotechnik

a person who designs or organises pyrotechnics


tunesmith

Indications that the top tunesmiths are rewriting their version of the music publishers pot o' gold role in the tune biz can be found in reports here that Edwin H. (Buddy) Morris's relations with film cleffers Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen will be changed shortly from a "pub affiliate" structure to a "writer participation" basis.


jokesmith

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neuroradiologist

The bride and bridegroom work at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center in Manhattan; […] he is a neuroradiologist.

2007 May 13, “Stacy Kantor, Daniel Lefton”, in New York Times:

A specialist in neuroradiology: a radiologist who specializes in the nervous system


postwoman

(rare) A female letter carrier, a woman who delivers mail.


major-leaguer

major leaguer (canonical)
major-leaguers (plural)

(sports) Someone who plays in a major league


lyrist

On “Kabibi” he connects breezily with the Tanzanian singer and thumb pianist Anania Ngoliga; on “Pakugyenda Balebauo,” also in Tanzania, he trades phrases with a lyrist named Warema Masiaga Cha Cha. The title track, which Mr. Fleck wrote in his own style, features the Malian ngoni players Bassekou Kouyate and Haruna Samake.

2009 March 2, The New York Times, “New CDs”, in New York Times:


showrunner

Those so-called showrunners, the thousand or so people who share both writing and managerial duties on television shows, have already been squeezed by conflicting demands from guild leaders and company employers.

2007 November 3, Brooks Barnes, “With Resolution Unlikely, Writers Guild Sets Strike for Monday”, in New York Times:

The person at the apex of the production triangle is the showrunner: in short, the boss.

2013, Bethany Rooney, Mary Lou Belli, Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing, →ISBN, page 66:

(television) The person in overall charge of the production of a television series.


aquaculturist

(agriculture) A person involved in aquaculture.


tenorist

This letter is noteworthy because it specifies the voice ranges, sopranos and tenorists.

1999, Paul Merkley, Lora L. Matthews Merkley, Music and Patronage in the Sforza Court, page 77:


refinisher

In addition to referring customers to local refinishers, Mr. Rountree’s company also sells refinishing products to do-it-yourselfers.

2008 March 30, Jay Romano, “Tubs and Showers Made New Again”, in New York Times:


general manager

general manager (plural general managers)

Coordinate term: duty manager

(management) A manager with overall responsibility for an organisation or a distinct unit of an organisation.


haircutter

One who cuts hair; a barber or hairdresser.

Friseur

one who cuts hair; a barber or hairdresser


subeditor

An assistant editor, usually in a specific department of a newspaper.

segédszerkesztő

an assistant editor, usually in a specific department of a newspaper

Sub-editors. Bastards. What about all that copy of his they'd cut? Fifteen years of research he'd filed from one planet alone and they'd cut it to two words. ‘Mostly harmless.’

1992, Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 96:

(UK) A copy editor at a newspaper or magazine.


biostatistician

Richard J. Chappell, a University of Wisconsin biostatistician and a committee member, voted against the drug’s efficacy.

2007 March 30, Andrew Pollack, “Panel Endorses New Anti-Tumor Treatment”, in New York Times:

Andrew Vickers is a biostatistician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

2008 January 22, Andrew Vickers, “Cancer Data? Sorry, Can’t Have It”, in New York Times:

Dr. Kennedy is survived by his wife, the former Kathryn Davis, a biostatistician who contributed to his reviews of coronary therapies.

2008 June 20, Jeremy Pearce, “J. Ward Kennedy Is Dead at 74; Studied Heart Pumping”, in New York Times:

Person making or doing research on biostatistics.


postperson

postperson (plural postpersons or postpeople)

postpersons (plural)
postpeople (plural)

The planet of the Dingalingers is under threat of nuclear war. The Ball, representative of the Astral Harmony Council, and his Intergalactic postperson courier, Thing, have been sent to liaise with the Dingalinger Overlord.

1988, Paul Sumner, Mark Caswell, Kati Hamza, Thing! (video game review) in Crash issue 51

(uncommon) A letter carrier of any gender.


mailperson

mailperson (plural mailpersons or mailpeople)

mailpersons (plural)
mailpeople (plural)

“Why can’t we have a mailperson?” he would rant. “One person, one vehicle, cuts carbon, delivers all the mail. How hard is that?”

2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 153:


lacemaker

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trancester

(music, informal, rare) A musician who composes trance music.


markswoman

A woman skilled at hitting targets, as with a firearm, bow, or thrown object.


fireperson

fireperson (plural firepersons or firepeople)

firepersons (plural)
firepeople (plural)

(nonstandard, rare) A firefighter of any gender.


greenkeeper

(golf) An employee responsible for the maintenance of a golf course.


man-midwife

1775, Laurence Sterne, The Koran, Chapter XXXVII: The Man-Midwife, The Works of Laurence Sterne, page 75,
She was daughter to a man-midwife; — and all that has been urged upon the former caſe, is equally referable to this one also.

1835 May 30, Evidence of Mr, Guthrie before the Parliamentary Medical Committee, The Lancet for 1834-35, Volume 2, page 287,
It is the same with the man-midwife ; he has no time to devote to surgery ; if he has time, he has no means of improving his knowledge in it.

Thus, the answer to the old question of whether man-midwives or midwives were the better birth attendants is not simple. Some midwives were indeed dirty, ignorant, and dangerous; some man-midwives saved lives with their forceps; and some births were doomed to disaster.

2010, Mary Lindemann, Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe, page 268:


bloodletter

One who performs bloodletting (the removal of blood in the hope of curing illness).


flugelhornist

Radulph could not help but notice how the breasts of a lady flugelhornist trembled whenever she blew into her instrument.

1993, Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet, Dalkey Archive Press, page 109:

Shank returned in 1974 in the company of the LA Four, a Latin-influenced, cool-bop ensemble that featured Almeida and the great double bassist Ray Brown - sometimes extending this successful group's style into broader recording projects, including the excellent trumpeter and flugelhornist Bobby Shew.

2009 April 6, John Fordham, “Bud Shank”, in The Guardian:


nanoscientist

A scientist whose speciality is nanoscience

Nanowissenschaftler

a scientist whose speciality is nanoscience


mineworker

Near-synonym: miner (usually coinstantial)

West Australian Liberal MP Mal Washer says many mineworkers are paid more than federal backbenchers, who receive $127,060.

2009 April 3, Staff writer, “Unions attack attempts by MPs to lift their pay”, in Herald Sun:


spasm band

Late 19th- and early 20th-century New Orleans slang.

A musical band that plays instruments made from items not originally intended for music.


marine biologist

marine biologist (plural marine biologists)

海洋生物学者

かいようせいぶつがくしゃ


CAPCOM

Normally, the Capcom was a fellow astronaut. At Mission Control in Mission Elapsed Time 6:37, the man sitting at the fourth Houston seat in the second row of consoles at Mission Control was Capcom Michael Collins, who had been scrubbed from this very mission due to the occurrence of a bone spur on his spine.

2013, David West Reynolds, Wally Schirra, Gene Cernan, Apollo: The Epic Journey to the Moon, 1963-1972, Zenith Imprint, →ISBN, page 103:

“Apex One here. Do you read, Capcom?” Dad's voice said, “I read. Do you have the package?” “Roger that, Capcom. Let's do this thing.” When I'd rendezvoused with Tinkerbell, we'd done it in stages, adjusting location, velocities, and headings until I'd gotten a visual.

2014, Steven Gould, Exo: A Jumper Novel, Macmillan, →ISBN:

capsule communicator
capsule communicator#English

(US, astronautics) Clipping of capsule communicator; a NASA position, the liaison between an in-space crew and mission control.


senior colonel

(military) a military rank for a field officer above that of colonel and below the general ranks or flag ranks


senior captain

(military) a military rank for a field officer above that of captain and below that of major

(military) a military rank for a naval officer above that of captain and below the admiral ranks or flag ranks


commodore admiral

commodore admiral (plural commodore admirals)

(US, military, nautical, historical) a flag officer of a rank between a captain and a rear admiral, having a O7 NATO rank scale equivalency.


fleet captain

(military, nautical) A captain in command of a fleet, convoy, or flotilla.


cybercowboy

...shares not a little with libertarian cybercowboys of the technosphere like John Barlow and Mitch Kapor...

1995, Maurice Berger, Brian Wallis, Simon Watson, Carrie Mae Weems, Constructing masculinity:

Within the week he upgraded his PC, got a modem, downloaded Netscape, and became a cybercowboy.

2001, Jim Sterne, World Wide Web marketing:


lampworker

(glassblowing) Someone who works with lampwork


jazzbo

And he slowed down the car for all of us to turn and look at the old jazzbo moaning along.

1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 1, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 2:


jazzer

(colloquial, rare) Something with energy or pizzazz.

Unlike the players from the other scenes, however, the Cleveland jazzers would also engage in reflexive thought even when there are no immediate problems.

2004, Harris M. Berger, Giovanna Del Negro, Identity and everyday life, page 106:

Taking an opportunity to follow jazzer Paul Whiteman's band to Berlin, he remained in the German capital until Hitler's rise to power.

2021, Gavin Plumley, “A Boulevardier Writes…”, in Literary Review, 497, June:

(colloquial) A jazz musician; someone who likes or dances to jazz music.


Romanicist

A person who studies or teaches Romance languages and/or literature.


spokesmodel

(sometimes derogatory) A spokesperson hired based on appearance or celebrity rather than credibility.


weighmaster

Somebody who professionally weighs goods, a weigher.


dockmaster

Near-synonyms: wharfmaster, wharfinger

Someone in charge of a dock, or of docking.


cowperson

cowperson (plural cowpersons or cowpeople)

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The pineappled ham thing was just being removed from the bridge-table buffet as I entered, and I am overwhelmed by the sight of a roomful of unusually attired, middle-aged cowpersons swaying to the strains of "Oh Lonesome Me."

At the same time they turn loose a cowboy/girl/person from an adjacent pen. […] the cowperson jumps off the horse in mid-stride […]

1996, Coke Newell, Cow Chips Aren't for Dippin': A Guide to Life in the New Wild West, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, page 80:

(rare, nonstandard, sometimes humorous) A cowhand.


hitwoman

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From hit + woman, based on earlier hitman.

Coordinate term: hitman

On the show, the person who does most of the critiquing is Ms. Southwick, the delightfully acerbic hitwoman who has become the character to watch.

2007 March 11, Lola Ogunnaike, “At ‘The Agency,’ It Isn’t Pretty”, in New York Times:

The female equivalent of a hitman; a female assassin for hire.


detailer

In the case of Richmond Hill, the torch has been passed to Simcha Waisman, 62, vice president of the neighborhood’s block association. Mr. Waisman’s devotion to neighborhood welfare is legendary; he has been known to stake out freshly painted walls for as long as a week, waiting to catch someone painting graffiti. Mr. Waisman drives a cranberry-colored Expedition, which he says has been so marred by dripping creosote that his detailer now refuses him service.

2007 July 25, Ellen Barry, “Drips, Squeals and Patience: Life by the El”, in New York Times:


ragtimer

A musician who plays or composes ragtime music.


piemaker

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From Middle English piemakere, pyemaker, pye-makyer, equivalent to pie + maker.

There are piemakers who embrace the standard whipped-cream topping, and others who meddle with meringue.

2007 January 14, Jennifer Steinhauer, “L.A.’s Top Banana . . .”, in New York Times:


turnboy

→ Swahili: taniboi

(East Africa) An assistant to the driver of public transport or a truck.


furnituremaker

Coordinate term: cabinetmaker

Esherick (1887-1970), a studio craft pioneer, is represented by “Music Stand” (1962), an elegantly simple frame of cherry wood crossbars supported on three curving legs. Mr. Maloof’s “Settee #3/87” (1987), in richly grained tiger maple and ebony, has a classic plain shape, with slight tweaking of the double chair as stripped down by Shaker furnituremakers.

2007 January 12, Grace Glueck, “Fun With Studio Crafts: When the Traditional Gets Quirky”, in New York Times:


calypsonian

The fourth and newest volume (subtitled “African Dreams and the Piccadilly High Life”) is scattered with calypsonians like Lord Kitchener, Young Growler and Young Tiger, and high-life bands like the African Messengers.

2007 January 14, Ben Ratliff, “If You’re Going to London, Nashville or San Francisco”, in New York Times:


chief financial officer

chief financial officer (plural chief financial officers)

financial department
financial department

chief executive officer
chief executive officer

(business) The executive who is in charge of financial affairs, notably as head of a financial department, typically directly under the chief executive officer and/or the board who lead the corporation or other organisation as a whole

首席財務官 /首席财务官

executive in charge of financial affairs


coppersmithing

The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.


baristo

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From barista (“bartender”), the -a having been interpreted as the Italian feminine singular ending -a, and then substituted with the masculine singular ending -o to specify a masculine, rather than feminine, agent noun.

Starbucks also faces slumping morale and employee burnout among its store managers and its once-cheery army of baristos.

2002, Business week, McGraw-Hill, Inc, page 102:

On the other side of me a table holds several tureens of brewed coffee; additionally, a small man in a white coat stands beside a cappuccino maker. He is the official baristo of this White House coffee.

2003, Philip Edward Baruth, The X President: a novel, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 65, →ISBN:

SIR —
As a Starbucks baristo, I was pleased to read your even-handed treatment of the Ethiopian trademarking controversy.

2006, The Economist, volume 381, Economist Newspaper Ltd., page 16:

I walk over to Feet’s Coffee & Tea on Vine Street and tell the young #baristo, “My daughter started preschool today.” He gives me a coffee on the house.

2006, Rachel Sarah, Single Mom Seeking: Playdates, Blind Dates, and Other Dispatches from the Dating World, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 111, →ISBN:

The cute baristo. He’d somehow slipped in unnoticed again, and was now behind the counter in a sky blue T-shirt […]

2006, Rebecca Agiewich, BreakupBabe: a novel, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 50, →ISBN:

At the door, the baristo from Starbucks peeked in. His lime green hair seemed to stick straight up when he saw Jewel. “I brought you another latte. […]”

2008, Jennifer Stevenson, The Velvet Chair, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 71, →ISBN:

(nonstandard, hypercorrect) A specifically male barista.


rosh yeshiva

rosh yeshiva (plural roshei yeshiva or rosh yeshivas)

roshei yeshiva (plural)
rosh yeshivas (plural)


gambist

(music) Someone who plays the viola da gamba


trolley dolly

I am sure these people were once normal. That is until they walked into BA's superior 'trolley dolly' school. From day one, I am positive it was drummed into them that all economy passengers are scum.

But that was the 1960s and the lot of the trolley dolly has changed: political correctness put an end to age restrictions and the responsibilities go beyond asking passengers whether they want "chicken or fish".

2006, Simon A Bennett, A Sociology of Commercial Flight Crew:

It was sickening and the gross unfairness of it left Cate seriously questioning why she'd ever wanted to be a defence lawyer in the first place. Why hadn't she followed her early adolescent ambitions of becoming a high-flying trolley-dolly - a tart with a cart?

2006, Scott Creighton, Something Went Bump:

(slang, derogatory) A female flight attendant.


weathergirl

(now sometimes offensive) A young female weather forecaster.


bargirl

/ˈbɑː(ɹ)ɡɜː(ɹ)l/

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San Francisco's local, for example, initially admitted bargirls, but following the public condemnation of bargirls in the late 1930s, the local appointed a committee to investigate the situation.

1991, Dorothy Cobble, Dishing It Out, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 126:

A female who works as a hostess in a bar, typically in Southeast Asia and catering to male clients, and who may provide personal entertainment or sexual services.


subtitler

A software package that assists in creating subtitles for movies, documentaries, etc.


kobzar

Borrowed from Ukrainian кобзар (kobzar).

An itinerant Ukrainian bard, often blind, who played the kobza


areologist

(astronomy) One who studies the planet Mars.


project manager

project manager (plural project managers)


cyberdetective

(rare) A detective who operates on the Internet or in cyberspace.


staymaker

The author of these Memoirs informs us, that Miss Reay was the daughter of a staymaker near Leicester-Fields; and at the age of fourteen was placed as an apprentice to Mrs. Silver, a mantua-maker, in George's Court, Clerkenwell […]

1779, The critical review, or annals of literature, volume 48, page 80:

Her Paine: rebellious Staymaker; unkempt; who feels that he, a single Needleman, did by his 'Common Sense' Pamphlet, free America....

1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):

The young man bowed, and very politely led the way to a little back parlour, where the staymaker took a seat, and in a very slow and stately manner gave him numberless recommendations concerning the size, colour, and shape of her chaussure.

1847, “A soirée in a porter's lodge”, in Chambers's Journal, volume 8, page 90:

This entry from the diary of Richard Viney, Staymaker, is one of many in which he mentions the physicality of staymaking in the same breath with sociability with his clients.

2009, Lynn Sorge-English, “Constructing Identity: The Staymaker Forms the Lady in Eighteenth-Century Britain”, in Historical Perspectives on Social Identities, page 79:


funemployed

Maybe you’re funemployed and you can go anytime?

2009 May 15, Bryce Longton, “Not another travel deal site”, in BlackBook, archived from the original on 2016-07-16:

Buoyed by severance, savings, unemployment checks or their parents, the funemployed do not spend their days poring over job listings.

2009 June 4, Kimi Yoshino, “For the ‘funemployed,’ unemployment is welcome”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 2016-05-07:

And the so-called millennial generation's "weirdly upbeat" word "speaks volumes" about how this well-fed, well-organized age group is dealing with the worst downturn since the 1930s—the "young and funemployed" are taking the time to relax and "find themselves," but many also volunteer or self-educate.

2009 June 5, “The recession and ‘funemployment’”, in The Week, archived from the original on 2016-07-16:

A world without rigid temporal boundaries gave some a rare chance to relax and regroup after many years of busyness. Some took advantage of this freedom by becoming, as one respondent cleverly put it, “funemployed.”

2016, Benjamin H. Snyder, The Disrupted Workplace […] , Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 144:

Instead of being employed and lamenting over the loss of employment, money, and opportunity, we're now expected to be “funemployed”!

2022, Whitney Goodman, Toxic Positivity […] , Penguin, →ISBN, page 52:

(neologism) In a state of enjoyable unemployment.


shoegazer

A musician who performs in the shoegaze style.


zoographer

Modelled on zoography, corresponding to zoo- + -grapher.

one who carries out zoography; a describer of animals


string orchestra

string orchestra (plural string orchestras)

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


string ensemble

string ensemble (plural string ensembles)

jousiyhtye

A music group consisting solely of stringed instruments


philharmonic orchestra

philharmonic orchestra (plural philharmonic orchestras)

(music) A large group of musicians who play together on various instruments, usually including some from strings, woodwind, brass and/or percussion; the instruments played by such a group.


session musician

session musician (plural session musicians)

(music) A professional musician employed by other musicians or singers, either to play live or to make recordings.


visagiste

Ordinarily, my impulse would have been to call of all the re-making and go promptly to sleep, but before I firmed up this thought, the visagiste went to work on me with a large tuft of cotton[…]

What is a face-maker, a visagiste, a cosmetic artist? He—more often than she—is the creative talent behind a new look which will catch on and make us all wish to look like Alice in Wonderland or Mata Hari depending on the mood he's projecting.

1972 July, Harper's Bazaar, volume 105, page 36:


whaleman

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chatelain

From Middle English chateleyn, from Middle French chatelaine, from Old French chastelein and castelain (“castellan”), from chastel and castel (“castle”) + -ain (“-an: forming adj.”), from Medieval Latin castellum, from Latin castrum (“fort”) + -ellum (“-elle: forming diminutives”). Doublet of Castilian, castellano, castellanus, and castellan.

doublet

Synonym of castellan: the lord of a castle; a caretaker entrusted to oversee a castle for its lord.


repairwoman

From repair + -woman on the model of repairman.

A female repairer, a woman who repairs things.


doorwoman

portière

woman who holds open the door at the entrance to a building


chamber ensemble

en-noun

chamber ensemble (plural chamber ensembles)

A musical ensemble of modest size, to play chamber music; can be more specifically named after its number (from duo to nonet) and/or type(s) (e.g. wood, brass, strings) of instruments.

kamerorkest

a musical ensemble of modest size, to play chamber music


prince regent

prince regent (plural prince regents or princes regent or princes regents)

prince regents (plural)
princes regent (plural)
princes regents (plural)

From prince + regent (“one who rules in place of the monarch”).
The plural form princes regent treats the word regent attributively.

ref

From the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

compound

Accord betwixt D. Raymond Berenger, Prince Regent of Arragon, with the Templers and Hospitaliers, vpon the teſtament of King D. Alphonſo.

1612, Lewis de Mayerne Turquet [i.e., Louis Turquet de Mayerne], “The Contents of the Ninth Booke”, in Edward Grimeston, transl., The General Historie of Spaine, […], London: […] A[dam] Islip, and G[eorge] Eld, →OCLC, page 269:

As to the propoſition for a Prince Regent, it was argued, that this was as much againſt Monarchy, or rather more, than what they moved for. If a King's ill government did give the people a right in any caſe to take his power from him, and to lodge it with another, owning that the right to it remained ſtill with him, this might have every whit as bad conſequences, as the other ſeemed to have: For recourſe might be had to this violent remedy too often, and too raſhly.

a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, “Book IV. Of the Reign of King James II.”, in [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], editor, Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume I, London: […] Thomas Ward […], published 1724, →OCLC, page 813:

And if there be ſeveral Princes of that Family, one of the younger Brothers ſhall be choſen and preſented to that Biſhoprick; and if the younger Brothers fail, one of the Princes Regent ſhall be choſen: […]

1732, “A Treaty of Peace between the Empire and Sweden, Concluded and Sign’d at Osnabrug the 24th of October, 1648. The King of France was Comprehended in this Treaty as an Ally of Sweden.”, in A General Collection of Treatys, Manifesto’s, Contracts of Marriage, Renunciations, and Other Publick Papers, from the Year 1495, to the Year 1712, 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] J. J. and P. Knapton, […], →OCLC, page 434:

It happened farther, that ſome Noblemen of Great Poland (among whom One was a Woywode (one of the Princes Regents), and Two Counts, James de Oſtrorog, and Raphael de Leſzno), being deſirous to know fully all relating to the Brethren, took a Journey to them as they were about to hold a Synod in the Heart of Moravia; […]

1749, “[Appendix of the Most Material Vouchers and Papers, Referred to in the Report.] Rationale of the Brethrens Liturgies.”, in Report from the Committee to whom the Petition of the Deputies of the United Moravian Churches, in Behalf of Themselves and Their United Brethren, was Referred: […] (Acta Fratrum Unitatis in Anglia), London: [Samuel Richardson], →OCLC, part II (The Brethrens Method of Preaching the Gospel, […]), page 106:

We cannot determine whether it was the king [Charles VI of France] that acted himſelf upon this occaſion, or whether it was his council, or the princes regents of the kingdom: the hiſtorians ſay only ſimply the king.

1752, [Vincent-Claude] Chalons, “Charles VI”, in [anonymous], transl., The History of France: From the Establishment of that Monarchy under Pharamond, to the Death of Lewis XIII. […], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page 420:

[A]fter returning thanks to Heaven for the re-establishment of His Highness's health,—an event of incalculable importance to the interests of the afflicted Church, which never stood in greater need to virtuous Princes Regent (des Princes Regens vertueux)—[…] [From The Times.]

1813 August 5, Historicus [pseudonym], “Ancient Scandal”, in The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1813. […], volume XVII, London: […] [S. Gosnell] for James Ridgway, […], published 1814, →OCLC, paragraph XIII.4, page 196:

The Committee will have the honour to lay these Statements before Their Royal Highnesses the Princes Regents of the two Nations.

1813 July 28, Charles Stuart, Ricardo Raimundo Nogueira, John Bell, Henrique Teixeira Sampayo, “Report of the Committee Appointed to Direct the Distribution of the Grant Voted by the Parliament of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the Relief of the Inhabitants of the Districts in Portugal, Laid Waste by the Enemy in the Year 1810”, in Miscellaneous, and Treaties with Foreign Powers: […], volume XIV, [London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office], →OCLC, page 5:

The young princes-regent revolted and proclaimed themselves the sovereigns of the realms over which they had been placed in temporary authority during the absence of their fathers.

1878, Robert Gossip, “Reign of Murad—First Bulgarian Campaign—An Ottoman Brutus—Battle of Kossova—Turkish Atrocities”, in Turkey and Russia: Their Races, History, and Wars. […], volume I, Edinburgh: Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, →OCLC, page 37:

When the news of the fall of Peking to Li Tzŭ-ch‘êng […] reached Mukden in 1644 Fan [Wên-Ch‘êng] memorialized the princes regent urging them to seize this opportunity to conquer an empire, but in so doing to spare the lives of the common people and refrain from the destruction that characterized former invasions.

1943, Fang Chao-ying, “FAN Wên-Ch‘êng 范文程”, in edited by Arthur W[illiam] Hummel [Sr.], Eminent Chinese of the Ch‘ing Period (1644–1912), volumes I (A–O), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, pages 231–232:

The two Prince Regents were but junior members of the Royal family and commanded little influence over their royal seniors or peers; they would not have been the choices of the royalty, had the latter been given a say in the matter.

2003, Kobkua Suwannathat-Pian, “The Experience of a Minor Monarch”, in Kings, Country and Constitutions: Thailand’s Political Development 1932–2000, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2013, →ISBN, part II (Reality: The Practice of Constitutional Monarchy, 1932–1952), page 129:

Everyone knew that her [Princess Charlotte of Wales's] father, the prince regent [George IV], had a mistress. He ran up huge debts, which the government paid with taxes collected from the people. The prince regent had a string of younger brothers who stood in line to inherit the throne, but none of them had an heir to carry on the royal line after him.

2017, Catherine Reef, “England’s Hope”, in Victoria: Portrait of a Queen, New York, N.Y.: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 12:

A prince who rules a country as a regent in place of a monarch who is unfit to rule for a particular reason.


machi

Many Mapuche women in La Pintana often went without health care because they did not trust conventional Western medicine or feared discrimination in public health clinics, and traveling hundreds of miles to see a machi in their communities of origin was impractical.

2015 August 19, Pascale Bonnefoy, “Alongside a Doctor’s Care, a Dose of Traditional Healing”, in New York Times:

A traditional healer and religious leader in the Mapuche culture of Chile and Argentina.


master chief petty officer

en-noun

master chief petty officer (plural master chief petty officers)

(US, Navy) A non-commissioned officer in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking above senior chief petty officer.


senior chief petty officer

senior chief petty officer (plural senior chief petty officers)

master chief petty officer
master chief petty officer

(US, Navy) A non-commissioned officer in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking above chief petty officer and below master chief petty officer.


petty officer first class

petty officer first class (plural petty officers first class)

petty officer second class
petty officer second class

(US, Navy) A non-commissioned officer in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking above petty officer second class and below chief petty officer.


petty officer second class

petty officer second class (plural petty officers second class)

petty officer third class
petty officer third class

(US, Navy) A non-commissioned officer in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking above petty officer third class and below petty officer first class.


petty officer third class

petty officer third class (plural petty officers third class)

(US, Navy) A non-commissioned officer in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking above seaman and below petty officer second class.


seaman apprentice

seaman apprentice (plural seamen apprentice or seaman apprentices)

seamen apprentice (plural)
seaman apprentices (plural)

(US, Navy) An enlisted rate in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking above seaman recruit and below seaman.


seaman recruit

seaman recruit (plural seamen recruit or seaman recruits)

seamen recruit (plural)
seaman recruits (plural)

(US, Navy) An enlisted rate in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, ranking below seaman apprentice.


master seaman

(Canada, Navy) A non-commissioned officer in the Canadian Forces Maritime Command, ranking above leading seaman and below petty officer second class.


leading seaman

(Australia, UK, Navy) A non-commissioned officer in the Royal Australian Navy and Royal Navy, ranking above able seaman and below petty officer.

(Canada, Navy) A non-commissioned officer in the Canadian Forces Maritime Command, ranking above able seaman and below master seaman.


chief petty officer second class

chief petty officer second class (plural chief petty officers second class)

chief petty officers second class (plural)

chief petty officer first class
chief petty officer first class

(Canada, Navy) A warrant officer in the Canadian Forces Maritime Command, ranking above petty officer first class and below chief petty officer first class.


chief petty officer first class

chief petty officer first class (plural chief petty officers first class)

chief petty officers first class (plural)

chief petty officer second class
chief petty officer second class

(Canada, Navy) A warrant officer in the Canadian Forces Maritime Command, ranking above chief petty officer second class.


warrant officer class 2

warrant officer class 2 (plural warrant officers class 2)

(UK) NATO rank OR-8 in all British armed services.

warrant officer class 1
warrant officer class 1

company sergeant major
company sergeant major

(UK, Army) A warrant officer in the British Army ranking above staff sergeant and below warrant officer class 1; company sergeant major

(UK, Marines) A warrant officer in the Royal Marines ranking above colour sergeant and below warrant officer class 1.

(UK, Navy) A warrant officer in the Royal Navy ranking above chief petty officer and below warrant officer class 1.

(Australia, Army) A warrant officer in the Australian Army, ranking above sergeant and below warrant officer class 1.


warrant officer class 1

warrant officer class 1 (plural warrant officers class 1)

warrant officer class 2
warrant officer class 2

regimental sergeant major
regimental sergeant major

(Australia, Army) A warrant officer in the Australian Army, ranking above warrant officer class 2 and below regimental sergeant major.

(UK, Army, Navy, Marines) A warrant officer in the British Army, Royal Marines, and Royal Navy, ranking above warrant officer class 2. In the army the rank held by a regimental sergeant major.


yellow jersey

/ˌjɛləʊ ˈdʒɜːzi/

Calque of French maillot jaune: maillot (“jersey, shirt; vest”) + jaune (“yellow”, adjective).

The evergreen Marianne Vos, a multiple world champion, crowned her illustrious career by taking her first yellow jersey in the Tour de France Femmes after emphatically winning stage two of the week-long race in Provins.

2022 July 25, Jeremy Whittle, “Marianne Vos takes yellow jersey on second stage of Tour de France Femmes”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-25:

Especially in the Tour de France: the yellow shirt worn by the leader of a stage of a cycling race, which is then awarded to the cyclist who wins the race with the fastest overall time.

قَمِيص أَصْفَر

yellow jersey or shirt worn by the leader of a stage of a cycling race, which is then awarded to the cyclist who wins the race with the fastest overall time


ghosthunter

They watched the two ghost-hunters run own the corridor and go crashing over the trip-wire.

1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 119:

His reputation as a ghosthunter grew stronger and others began contacting him for investigations and "exorcisms."

1992, Blanche Barton, The secret life of a Satanist: the authorized biography of Anton LaVey:

The most prolific and successful German horror writer of the Hefte is Helmut Rellergerd (1945-), who writes as Jason Dark about a ghosthunter named John...

1999, John Clute, John Grant, The encyclopedia of fantasy:

The Frighteners (1996) has a ghosthunter, Frank, working with a trio of ghosts who infest premises that he then clears.

2004, Tom Ruffles, Ghost images: cinema of the afterlife:

The last two years have certainly made me a ghosthunter, perhaps not in the intensive style exhibited by ghosthunter clubs and "professional" ghosthunters...

2005, John B Kachuba, Ghosthunting Illinois:

A person who attempts to track down ghosts.


gigster

(dated) A horse that pulls a gig (a two-wheeled carriage).


tenniswoman

tenniswoman (plural tenniswomen or tenniswomans)

tenniswomen (plural)
tenniswomans (plural)

From French tenniswoman. Equivalent to tennis + -woman.

I will speak whit a tenniswoman please can you me whrit .

1999 November 7, etienne.wala, “VIDEOS OF GREAT TENNIS MATCHES”, in alt.video.tape-trading (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-17:

I'm french (rouen) and i think that french tenniswomans will be the best. mary pierce is 5, nathalie tauziat is 7, julie halard-decugis is 9 and amelie mauresmo is 10. i think it's very great!
what do you think about french tenniswomans?
what do you think about french tennis in generality?
tnanks, seb

1999 November 21, Sank76, “FRENCH TENNISWOMAN”, in alt.tennis (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-17:

Give the tenniswomen their "own" grandslams: the first 2 days for the women with a 16 players draw and playing two matches a day which is easy because they play best of three "matches" only.

2005 June 5, Carty Staniu, “Tenniswomen demand less prizemoney”, in rec.sport.tennis (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-17:

In this case, fake nude photos of Steffi Graf, the retired tenniswoman, showing her head morphed to another woman's nude body, were posted on a Web site run by the ISP Microsoft Germany. She asked the company to remove the pictures that appeared on its site. The ISP complied with her request but the tenniswomen asked also the company to sign an undertaking that they would not appear again.

2008 December 8, Vari L. Cinicke, “... Agassi sues Graf”, in rec.sport.tennis (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-17:

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


Anaxagoras

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀναξαγόρας (Anaxagóras).

An ancient Greek philosopher (c. 500 BCE – 428 BCE) from Clazomenae, who is famous for introducing the cosmological concept of nous (mind), as an ordering force.


archaeogeneticist

(archaeology, genetics) A geneticist whose speciality is archaeogenetics

archeogenetikus

a geneticist whose speciality is archaeogenetics


Anaximander

From Ancient Greek Ἀναξίμανδρος (Anaxímandros).

uder

Ἀναξίμανδρος

(c. 610 BCE–c. 546 BCE) A pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus; pupil of Thales and teacher of Anaximenes.


Anaximenes

From Ancient Greek Ἀναξιμένης (Anaximénēs).

(c. 585 BCE–c. 525 BCE) An ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus; the pupil of Anaximander. He taught that the basic element of which the world is composed is the air.


hardballer

(informal) One who exhibits tough or ruthless behaviour.


somnologist

One who specializes in somnology, the study or treatment of sleep disorders.


chief justice

The senior presiding justice of a court.


soulster

Both the linguist and the soulster recognized that language was an indispensable vehicle for the transmission of social mores.

1992, William L. Van Deburg, New Day in Babylon: the Black Power Movement And American Culture, →ISBN, page 219:

Meanwhile, at Rockefeller's, local rhythm-and-blues soulster Aubrey Dunham celebrates the release of his debut CD, Now I'm Singing the Blues.

1994 June 2, Brad Tyer, “Young, Gifted and Dead”, in HoustonPress:

After a brief respite from the music biz, the blue-eyed soulster is back with a brand new band […]

1995 September 29, Steve Kiviat, “Billy Price”, in Washington City Paper:

Corinne Bailey Rae. The Brit soulster has been dubbed the new Norah Jones, Macy Gray and Billie Holiday, but she's equally comfortable with Van Morrison ballads and Stevie Wonder's epic groove.

2006 December 6, Jed Gottlieb, “If the Grammys REALLY rewarded music's best . . . [abstract]”, in Boston Herald, archived from the original on 2013-06-30:


anthro

en-noun

anthro (countable and uncountable, plural anthros)

I gather the phrase is used in lieu of some more practical benefit, e.g., a "job," which, as holders of English lit and anthro degrees can tell you, isn't necessarily part of the program.

1988 September 9, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:

Unlikely as it seemed, he might somehow return to the Empire, and if that happened, any information he could bring back would be valuable to the socio and anthro specialists.


barback

en-verb

barback (third-person singular simple present barbacks, present participle barbacking, simple past and past participle barbacked)

barbacks (present singular third-person)
barbacking (participle present)
barbacked (participle past)
barbacked (past)

From bar + back, due to working in the back area of the bar and not interacting with the patrons. Compare back of house and back office.


racewalker

One who participates in the sport of racewalking.