color commentator

color commentator (plural color commentators)

From color (“detail or flavour”) + commentator.

af

(US, sports) At a sporting event, a member of the radio or television announcing team who assists a play-by-play announcer. Provides insight into strategy, player performance, background information, etc., and often light humor.


jobber

The deponent, in the course of negotiation for sundry jobs, expressed his curiosity repecting the Habits and Life of the Knights of the Thimble, when the jobber to the Nobility and Gentry kindly volunteered to accompny him on a round to some of the great shops of the west.

1866 November, “A Visit to the Tailors of the West”, in The Suburban magazine, volume 1, page 99:

Every person who shall keep any boat for the purpose aforesaid without having such license, and every owner of, or other person who shall be employed or shall ply for hire in any such boat within the limits aforesaid without having such license or wearing such badge as aforesaid, and every person who shall offer himself as a porter or jobber within the said town of Saint George without having such license or wearing such badge aforesaid, shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding forrty shillings.

1875, The Laws of Grenada and the Grenadines, 1766-1875, page 109:

The jobbing clerk immediately upon receipt of the ticket minuted it properly in the book, and, upon looking at the annunciator, saw that it showed no jobbers in the waiting room; he went at once to the waiting room, but found no one there; he then returned to his own room and called down the speaking-tube to the basement for a jobber, but was told by the boiler tender that no jobber was there. The foreman of the jobbing department was then at his desk, but the clerk did not call his attention to the fact of the complaint or to his failure to find a jobber, nor did he make any further effort to find a jobber or to mention the complaint to any one until about 11.35, when he again called to the basement for a jobber, and ordered the first one who came in to be sent up.

1898, Public Documents of Massachusetts - Volume 11, page clxviii:

In the Mills there existed a usage under which a worker was first appointed as a Cleaner then an Oiler and thereafter promoted as a Jobber.

1976, The Industrial Court Reporter, page 499:

(archaic) One who works by the job (i.e. paid per individual piece of work) and/or recruits other people for such work.


city administrator

en-noun

city administrator (plural city administrators)

A person hired by a city to oversee the day-to-day management of city business.

hallintojohtaja

a person hired by a city to oversee the day-to-day management of city business


presenter

master of ceremonies
master of ceremonies

(radio, television) Someone who presents a broadcast programme; a compere or master of ceremonies.

aanbieder

someone who presents a broadcast programme


usuress

/ˌjuːʒəˈɹɛs/

That woman — that usuress — only lent me £20, but expected £50 back after just one week!


gofer

From go + fer (for), as in “go for coffee” or “go for that document” etc. Possibly also a pun on the rodent gopher, animals known for both their vast tunneling and their hoarding activities.

They were learning to do what in all my years in the music business I never saw — which was women running a record company, women producing concerts, women learning to be engineers, women moving into this absolutely all-male enclave. You never saw a woman in any of those positions, in any of that work except as secretaries and "go-fers".

1989 December 3, Pam Mitchell, Ronnie Gilbert, “Carrying On The Honorable Tradition Of 'Protest Music'”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 21, page 9:

More and more people agreed to help with the mailings, the hand-distribution of flyers, and telephonings. Others agreed to be gofers and fetchers.

2001, William Hairston, Passion and Politics:

(informal) A worker who runs errands; an errand boy.


taxonomist

Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.

1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:

(taxonomy) Someone whose profession is taxonomy, or who performs taxonomy at a professional level.


osteologist

The skeleton is an adult male who was buried with his hands bound together under his pelvis. It is suggested this unusual position means he could have been murdered or executed. [...] We hope our osteologists will be able to shed more light on this potentially gruesome death.

2020 July 29, “Neolithic skeleton among finds unearthed at HS2 site”, in Rail, page 17:

A scientist or physician whose speciality is osteology.


matchmaker

As singles are stuck at home and social distancing makes traditional dating all but impossible, the coaching skills of matchmakers, now imparted online, are becoming more valuable.

2020 May 9, Tammy La Gorce, “Singles Have to Think Outside the Screen”, in New York Times:

Someone who finds suitable dates or marriage partners for other people.

خَاطِب

someone who finds suitable marriage partners

Kirsten Giftekniv

used as a name. Lit: Kirsten Marriage-knife

(by extension) Someone who arranges professional boxing matches.


bus buddy

A person (either employed or volunteer) who helps aged or disabled people to use public transport


rock band

(music) A group of musicians who play rock music.


golfer

(computing) One who takes part in code golf or regex golf.


dustman

From dust + -man, as household refuse previously consisted largely of ashes (dust) from domestic fires.

Oh, my old man's a dustman
He wears a dustman’s hat
He wears cor-blimey trousers
And he lives in a council flat.

1960, Lonnie Donegan, My Old Man's A Dustman:

(British) A person employed to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.


impresario

impresario (plural impresarios or impresari)

/ˌɪmpɹɪˈsɑːɹɪəʊ/

A manager or producer in the entertainment industry, especially music or theatre.

演出經理人 /演出经理人

a manager or producer in the entertainment industry


sultana

1580s, Italian sultana (feminine of sultano). Displaced existing sultaness.

bor

feminine of <i class="Latn mention" lang="it">sultano</i>


helmsman

(nautical) A member of a ship's crew who is responsible for steering.


receptionist

Recorded since 1901, derived from reception + -ist.

An employee (such as a secretary) who works in reception (receiving visitors and/or calls) for a person or business, especially an office.

مُوَظَّف الْاِسْتِقْبَال

employee who receives visitors and/or calls, typically in an office setting


virologist

(virology) A scientist or doctor who studies or specializes in viruses.

վիրուսաբան

scientist or doctor specializing in virology


songer

Perhaps dialectally inherited from Middle English songere, from Old English sangere, from Proto-Germanic *sangwārijaz (“singer”), whence German Sänger, Dutch zanger etc. Equivalent to song + -er. Alternatively newly formed from these components.

If a man who plays at ping pong is a "ponger," Then a singer of a "singsong" is a "songer"; If the "songer" is a singer. Then the "ponger" is a "pinger," And the man who says it's wrong must be a "wronger."

Will he sing it, I wonder?"
"Chantoozie, I ain't much of a songer any more. I just done that because I was told it was a colorful trait."

1976, Katie Lee, Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle:

No sound of songers chirping or jumbies, foraging for nuts.

2012, Susan St. Francis, A Tale of the Bug Fairies:

(rare, nonstandard, sometimes humorous) A singer (of songs); a songster.


kindergartner

From kindergarten + -er, with spelling influenced by German Kindergärtner (“kindergarten teacher”).

cog

/ˈkɪndəˌɡɑːtnə/

I partnered the older kids with my kindergartners and let everyone get a taste of teaching or learning from someone different.

1993, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 90:


negus

en-noun

negus (countable and uncountable, plural neguses)

Named from Colonel Francis Negus (died 1732), its creator.

And when he got home he had a glass of hot negus in his wife's sitting-room, and read the last number of the “Little Dorrit” of the day with great inward satisfaction.

1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers. […], copyright edition, volume II, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1859, →OCLC, page 219:

Esther began […] to cry. But when the fire had been lit specially to warm her chilled limbs and Adela had plied her with hot negus she began to feel rather a heroine.

1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, chapter VII, in A House is Built, section VI:

‘I could sure use a cup of negus and maybe some hot soup,’ he sniffs.

1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 258:

A drink made of wine, often port, mixed with hot water, oranges or lemons, spices and sugar.

греяно вино

drink made of wine mixed with hot water, oranges or lemons, etc.


adman

A person in the business of devising, writing, illustrating or selling advertisements.


cadger

From the archaic verb cadge (“to carry”) + -er.

He was not a regular gondolier, so he had none of the cadger and prostitute about him.

1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:


removalist

2005, Chris Cooper, Kym Weatherly (editor), Behind the Private Eye: Surveillance Tales & Techniques, self published, Australia, page 63,
It was nearly two hours before there was any further movement, but our wait was richly rewarded as the old Holden returned, together with a large removalist truck.

2006, Allison Burnett, The House Beautiful: A Novel of High Ideals, Low Morals, and Lower Rent, Avalon Publishing, US, page 96,
I had wanted to spend the previous night at Pip′s place, so that I could be there when the removalists arrived, but Pip nixed the plan, claiming that my presence would distract him from “pack-pack.”

2011, James Adonis, Corporate Punishment: Smashing the Management Clichs for Leaders in a New World, John Wiley & Sons Australia, page 8,
She moved her furniture across without a whimper or a hint of worry. I, on the other hand, hired a removalist just to take my bed from one bedroom to the other.

2011, Tim Bonyhady, Good Living Street, Allen & Unwin, Australia, page 1,
Nineteen thirty-eight was a good year to be a removalist in Vienna. As tens of thousands fled the city following the German annexation of Austria, the Nazis seized their businesses, requiring them to pay punitive departure taxes, prevented them from converting their remaining money into foreign currency and stole much of their art. The refudees were usually able to leave with their other household goods, however, because the Nazis were eager to maintain the pretence that Austria′s Jews were leaving voluntarily, and wanted other countries to take them. The result was a surge in demand for removalists in a city where it was common to rent the same apartment for life.

“Three years on, it was time to return home, and the removalists were going through our rooms at lightning speed.”

2020, Kirsty Needham, “The long arm of authoritarian China reached into my seven-year-old’s bedroom”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

(chiefly Australia) A person or company who specialises in domestic removals, that is, the transportation of household contents when moving house.


dolly grip

(film) A technician trained to use a dolly.


animator

From Latin animātor. By surface analysis, animate + -or. Piecewise doublet of animateur.

In recent years, animators using computer rendering have largely superseded artists working by hand.

(art) One who creates an animation or cartoon; a cartoonist.


falconer

From Middle English fauconer, from Old French falconer, fauconer, from faucon (“falcon”).

And to add force to his remonstrances, he conferred a cuff or two on the negligent attendant of the hawks, who, shouting rather louder than was necessary under all the circumstances, brought the master falconer to his assistance.

1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 83:

A person who breeds or trains hawks or other birds of prey.


datary

Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church

(Roman Catholicism) an officer in the Roman Catholic Church who dispensed benefices

dataria

A Roman Catholic Church officer who dispensed benefices


baler

Hank worked as a baler for Farmer Jones part time, to make ends meet.

A person who creates bales, either by operating or feeding such a machine, or by creating the bales by hand.


harper

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From Middle English harpere, from Old English hearpere (“harpist, harper”), equivalent to harp + -er. Cognate with Middle Low German harpære (“harper”), German Harfer and Harfner (“harper”).

inh

The Harpe. […]
 A harper with his wreſt maye tune the harpe wrong
 Mys tunying of an Inſtrument ſhal hurt a true ſonge

1568, William Cornishe [i.e., William Cornysh], “In the Fleete Made by Me William Cornishe otherwise Called Nyshwhete Chapelman with the Most Famose and Noble Kyng Henry the VII. His Reygne the XIX. Yere the Moneth of July. A Treatise betwene Trouth, and Information.”, in John Skelton, edited by J[ohn] S[tow], Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate, Imprinted at London: In Fletestreate, neare vnto St Dunstan-in-the-West by Thomas Marshe, →OCLC; republished as Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, Poete Laureate to King Henry the VIIIth, London: Printed for C. Davis in Pater-noster Row, 1736, →OCLC, page 290:

A harpist, especially one who plays a traditional harp without pedals.


harpist

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Someone who plays a harp, especially a pedal harp.


philologist

Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 492. Scholar

Foucault's incisive scrutiny and consistent analysis of antique culture has opened the eyes of many a philosopher, philologist or anthropologist who considered himself an expert on the very texts and issues that Foucault addresses. In the years following the publication of Foucault's works an intense debate arose on the subject of sexuality in antiquity, perhaps primarily in feminist and homosexual circles, although by no means exclusively.

2013, Vigdis Songe-Møller, Philosophy Without Women: The Birth of Sexism in Western Thought, page 130, pub. A&C Black, isbn: 978-1-84714-350-1

A person who engages in philology (historical linguistics), especially as a profession; a collector of words and their etymologies.


anchorperson

en-noun

anchorperson (plural anchorpersons or anchorpeople)

anchorpersons (plural)
anchorpeople (plural)

From anchor + person, by analogy with anchorman.

The primary reporter on a television news broadcast.


anchorwoman

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mangaka

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Borrowed from Japanese 漫(まん)画(が)家(か) (mangaka). Doublet of manhwaga and manhuajia.


qawwal

2000: Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, et al, eds, World Music: The Rough Guide, volume two of the new edition
What does It mean to be a qawwal?

A person who performs qawwali music or song.


pollster

Trump didn't like the results of the polls, so he fired the pollsters.

Now that the cold war has ended and political ideologies have been replaced by pollsters and spin doctors, Machiavelli's cleareyed assessments of power dynamics and pragmatic advantage are suddenly in vogue.

2000 December 3, Alexander Stille, “The Original Spin Doctor”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A professional who conducts or analyzes opinion polls.


fluff girl

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John walked over to the women on the couch with a pandering smile. "I really hate to break this up, but we're ready to roll tape." Rod switched position with Karen's fluff girl, waited for his cue, then it was back to the races.

2000, Peter Scott Harmyk, Say Good-Bye to Johnnie Blue, Ivy House Publishing Group, →ISBN:

Buck looks down at his crotch then back up again, "There's nothing to pick up anymore." Cliff peers around. "Who's the fluff girl today?" The young woman on the sideline steps forward, "I am." "Okay, Annie, please take care of Buck," says Cliff.

2003, Lynn Isenberg, My Life Uncovered, Don Mills, Ont.: Red Dress Ink, →ISBN:

(pornography) A woman who arouses male pornographic actors before filming.


cubist

[…] as far as I know there is no standard word describing the art of playing with the cube. Cubing? Cubistics? Rubikonomia? or perhaps Rubikomania? Can the science (or art) of doing it be called “cubology”, as suggested by Scientific American? Some enthusiasts borrow “cubism” and call themselves “cubists”, all very reminiscent of the 1920s three dimensional, modern art phase.

[1982 March 18, Stephan Sulyak, “Review: The magic cube (A Büvös Kocka)”, in New Scientist, volume 93, number 1297, →ISSN, page 734:

Being a new reader of this group and a novice cubist, I'm not familiar with either of these notations. Would someone please fill me in? Thanks in advance for the help.

1992 May 5, SH...@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu, “Re: God's algorithm again for Rubiks Cube, was Re: combinatorial puzzl”, in rec.puzzles (Usenet):


Cubist

(art) An artist who works in the style of cubism.


pan man

The 'dunny' down the back yard was emptied by the council's pan man once a week. — Susan Marsden, essay Argyle, a port worker's home 19 Forbes Street Carrington New South Wales, describing 1920s way of life there https://web.archive.org/web/20060904141530/http://www.heritage.gov.au/ourhouse/essay7.html

(obsolete) A person employed to empty the contents of the outside toilet (i.e. human excrement) at suburban houses (and similar). Rendered obsolete by the introduction of plumbed (i.e. piped) sewerage systems.


fashion model

A person who poses to display clothing, either on stage or in photographs; a model.


runway model

A person who poses to display clothing by walking along a narrow stage in front of an audience.


podiatrist

I visited my podiatrist to get a new pair of orthopedic inserts for my sneakers.

(medicine) A health care practitioner who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of foot ailments.


flight attendant

flight attendant (plural flight attendants)

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I ask everybody… A waitress, flight attendant… …someone I’m shitting next to on the plane… “You know what my biggest hobby is?” Puking.

2024 May 16, very tall bart, [YTP] State of the Union, spoken by Penis Prager (Dennis Prager):

A member of the crew of an airplane who is responsible for the comfort and safety of its passengers.


vaudevillian

Harris was born in Richmond, Virginia, on February 9, 1947. His grandparents were vaudevillians, his father was a professional guitarist, and his mother was a leader of the church choir.

1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 322:

(US) Someone who performs in vaudeville.


violist

But those who attack violists shouldn't throw resin. Once the ergonomic viola catches on what instrument will be immune?

1997 August 9, Edward Rothstein, “A Comeback for the Viola. No Joking.”, in The New York Times:

[…] on Sunday four more violinists, a second violist and a harpsichordist were added to give the ripieno sections of the fast movements a heftier punch than the smaller group delivered.

2009 January 20, Allan Kozinn, “Shafts of Sun in Winter From the Italian Baroque”, in The New York Times:


best boy

(film production) The first assistant to either the key grip (in charge of camera placement and movement) or the gaffer (in charge of lighting and electrics).

valaistusteknikko

film jargon: first assistant to either the key grip or the gaffer


technologist

The technologist must be careful not to overmoisten the disk, as false negative results can occur due to dilution of the end product.

1990, Ellen Jo Baron, Sydney M. Finegold, Bailey and Scott's Diagnostic Microbiology, page 418:

Gravity, heat, [and] electromagnetism…are the natural phenomena that scientists study and that engineers and technologists use to make their tools.

2012, David Blockley, Engineering: A Very Short Introduction (309), chapter 1, page 16

A scientist, engineer, or technician who specializes in a particular technology, or who uses technology in a particular field.

技師 /技师

a scientist or engineer who specializes in a particular technology


wagoner

(mining) One who transports the mined material away from the face in wagons.


announcer

radio announcer

Even TV announcers at the last Winter Olympics were spotted with a swoosh on their jackets.

2000, Jack Trout, Steve Rivkin, The Power of Simplicity, →ISBN, page 147:

Perlman devised a format inspired by the seminal mockumentary Spinal Tap, where the spot started with an ESPN announcer speaking to camera in a serious, straight voice, framing the story as “real” documentary.

2010, Douglas Holt, Douglas Cameron, Cultural Strategy: Using Innovative Ideologies to Build Breakthrough Brands, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 345:

There were passing moments when it threatened to be a difficult night and, with the game goalless at half-time, the stadium announcer sounded almost apologetic when he relayed the news that Ukraine, kicking off an hour earlier, had gone to the top of the group by beating Poland.

2013 October 11, Daniel Taylor, “Andros Townsend calms England's nerves in taming of Montenegro”, in The Guardian:


chiropractor

/ˈkɑɪ.ɹəˌpɹæk.tə(ɹ)/

From Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + πρᾶξις (prâxis, “action, activity, practice”).

A health-care practitioner who specializes in chiropractic, the hands on or hand-held instrumental movement of the bone structure of the body to improve the function of the joints or nervous system.


washerwoman

(colloquial) A double drummer, large cicada of Australia, of species Thopha saccata.


weatherman

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“Cool and brisk in the morning, warming to the low seventies by afternoon,” Ruby said anticipating the weatherman's words.

2014, Fern Michaels, Vegas Sunrise, Kensington Books, [https://books.google.com/books?id=dv6nAwAAQBAJ&dq=%22weatherman%22&pg=PT245 page [245]]:

We were watching the weather that night. The weather man couldn't even fathom what was about to be the worst flooding that we had ever experienced in our area.

2012, Derra Byrd, 2 Losses 1 Divine Gift, Bloomington, IN: WestBow Press, page 11:

A person, especially a male one, who reports the weather conditions or forecasts.

you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows


weatherperson

weatherperson (plural weatherpersons or weatherpeople)

weatherpersons (plural)
weatherpeople (plural)

According to the weatherperson, spring arrived in Hartford, Conn., on Monday, March 20 at 6:34 p.m. But gay people here didn't need a weatherperson to feel the gust of fresh air at a hearing on the proposed gay rights ordinance before the City Council that night at 7:30.

1978 April 8, Eric Gordon, “Hartford Hears Testimony on Gay Rights Bill”, in Gay Community News, page 1:


weather forecaster

weather forecaster (plural weather forecasters)


electrician

/ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɪʃ(ə)n/

/ˌɛlɪkˈtɹɪʃ(ə)n/

/ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɪʃən/

/əˌlɛkˈtɹɪʃən/

/iˌlɛkˈtɹɪʃən/

A tradesperson who installs, repairs and maintains electrical wiring and equipment.

elektrisiën

tradesman who works with electrical equipment


electrologist

A person who uses electrolysis to remove body hair.


foot soldier

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(figurative, by extension) A rank and file member of an institution, or supporter of a cause.


cinematographer

кінематаграфі́ст

a movie photographer, especially one who is in charge of shooting a movie

It is what the spectator sees, not reads, that leaves the lasting impression. The best plan is to have the cinematographer call in order to determine the details to be covered.

1916, The American School Board Journal, volume 53, page 41:

(dated) One who exhibits motion pictures; a projectionist.


funeral director

funeral director (plural funeral directors)

Near-synonyms: cremator, embalmer, mortician

An undertaker; one who arranges funerals.


Empedocles

From Ancient Greek Ἐμπεδοκλῆς (Empedoklês).

A Greek philosopher who held that all matter was composed of earth, air, fire and water.


celebrant

From French célébrant, from Latin celebrāns, present participle of celebrō.

These are celebrants who marry people at registry offices.

1983, CCH Australia Limited, Guidebook to Australian Family Law: With Family Law Act and Regulations, page 14:

Church and state are completely separate but all clergy can be licensed as civil celebrants for legal purposes.

1997, Helen Wilkinson, The Proposal: Giving Marriage Back to the People, page 41:

When we first began as celebrants back in 1973, we had no poetry in our heads at all.

2006, Timoshenko Aslanides, Occasions for Words: Poems for Birth, Marriage, Death and Much Between, page v:

(Australia, New Zealand) A person who conducts formal ceremonies in the community, particularly weddings, baby namings, renewals of wedding vows and funerals.


pointillist

of, pertaining to, or in the style of pointillism


harpsichordist

Some harpsichordists might have dismissed these works as not “authentic” Handel, Mr. Cooper said, though he surmised that the arrangements could have been prepared by Handel’s students.

2021 March 19, Anthony Tommasini, “Kenneth Cooper, Harpsichordist With Improviser’s Gift, Dies at 79”, in The New York Times:


dispenser

From Anglo-Norman dispensour, from Old French despenseor, from Latin dispensator. By surface analysis, dispense + -er.

Something or someone that dispenses things.

A person who makes up prescriptions, such as an optician or pharmacist.


assessor

From Middle English assessour, from Old French assessour, from Latin assessor (“assistant judge; assessor of taxes”). Cognate with French assesseur.

der

One who assesses a property for tax or insurance evaluation.

(law) A specialist who assists the court in determining a matter.

assessor

a specialist who assists the court in determining a matter

A civil servant entrusted with checking the veracity of data and criteria used by a taxpayer to complete a tax return.

One who assesses a project for cost evaluation.

kustannuslaskija

one who assesses a project for cost evaluation

(UK, Oxford University) An official responsible for student welfare.


social worker

I had a visit from my social worker last week.

These are but a few instances of the benefits conferred by him as a social worker; but until these can be fully recorded, let us bear in mind as no small part of the debt we owe to the truly noble man[…]

1887 January 14, “To the Editor of ’The Times’”, in The Times (Letters section), number 31969, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:

Mr. J. W. Martin of London, England, will deliver a series of lectures in St. Louls this week. Mr. Martin is a member of the famous Fabian Society of London, and an educator and social worker of note in his own country.

1899 March 5, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 50, number 202, St. Louis, Missouri, →OCLC, Mr. Martin of London Here: He Will Deliver a Series of Lectures on Social Subjects, page 24:

Professor Virchow, as chairman of the commemoration committee, opened the proceedings in a speech in which he recalled the services which Herr Schulze had rendered Germany as a social worker and as a politician.

1899 August 5, “Germany”, in The Times (Latest Intelligence section), number 35900, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5:

There canʼt have been many social workers at that troubled time who heard an expression of gratitude.

2005, Jennifer Worth, Shadows of the Workhouse, Weidenfeld & Nicholson (2009), page 274:

A person, usually employed by the state, that supports the welfare of individuals or groups, especially those that are socially disadvantaged.


portraitist

A painter or photographer who makes portraits.


artilleryman

(military) A soldier enlisted in an artillery unit or who uses artillery.


Justice of the Peace

en-noun

Justice of the Peace (plural Justices of the Peace)

A judicial officer with varying responsibilities depending on the jurisdiction.


fitness model

(bodybuilding) A good-looking person (usually a man) with a well-developed physique who is paid as a model to demonstrate exercises or related equipment.


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commissioned officer

commissioned officer (plural commissioned officers)

(military) An officer who derives authority directly from a sovereign power and, as such, holds a commission charging them with the duties and responsibilities of a specific office or position.

Offizier

an officer who derives authority directly from a sovereign power


cameraman

→ Albanian: kameraman

→ Catalan: cameràman

→ Czech: kameraman

→ French: caméraman

→ Italian: cameraman

→ Portuguese: cameraman

→ Romanian: cameraman

→ Turkish: kameraman

Coordinate term: camerawoman

‘We were getting a grand shot of a charging rhino when the cameraman got scared and bolted. The fathead!’

1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 24:

Somebody who operates a movie camera or television camera.

կինոօպերատոր

somebody who operates a film or TV camera


bacteriologist

/bækˌtɪəɹiˈɒlədʒɪst/

'This again,' said the Bacteriologist, slipping a glass slide under the microscope, 'is a preparation of the celebrated Bacillus of cholera – the cholera germ.'

A microbiologist whose speciality is bacteriology.


microbiologist

A scientist whose speciality is microbiology.


gondolier

/ˌɡɒndəˈlɪə(ɹ)/

/ˌɡɑndəˈlɪɹ/

From Italian gondoliere, through French gondolier. By surface analysis, gondola + -ier.

A boatperson who propels a gondola, especially in Venice.


bellhop

Now, the bellhop's tears keep flowin'
And the desk clerk's dressed in black.
Well, they've been so long on Lonely Street
Well, they'll never, they'll never look back.

1956, “Heartbreak Hotel”, Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden, Elvis Presley (lyrics), performed by Elvis Presley:

An employee of a hotel who carries a guest's luggage and runs errands.


biochemist

A chemist whose speciality is biochemistry


rower

From Middle English rower, rowere, roware, equivalent to row + -er. Cognate with Dutch roeier (“rower”), Danish roer (“rower”), Norwegian roer (“rower”). Compare also Old English rōwend (“rower”).

Aerobic and weight training sessions should also complement each other. For example, on a day you work your upper body with weights, you can use a rower for aerobics.

1988, Richard Allen Winett, Ageless athletes, page 65:


cabinetmaker

He waited and waited, in the faith that Schinkel was dealing with them in his slow, categorical Teutonic way, and only objurgated the cabinetmaker for having in the first place paltered with his sacred trust. Why hadn't he come straight to him—whatever the mysterious document was—instead of talking it over with French featherheads?

1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.:

A skilled woodworker who makes high-quality wooden cabinets and furniture.


choirboy

Coordinate term: choirgirl

Kordic is no choirboy. The tribunal has accused him of crimes against humanity for helping to orchestrate a massive campaign of persecution against Muslims in the Lasva valley in central Bosnia.

2004, Pierre Hazan, Justice in a Time of War, page 108:

puhdas pulmunen (compare puhdas kuin pulmunen)


choreographer

"More and more, the shrewdest thinkers and artists are precocious archeologists of ... ruins-in-the-making, indignant or stoical diagnosticians of defeat, enigmatic choreographers of the complex spiritual movements useful for individual survival in an era or permanent apocalypse."

1969 July 13, Lawrence M. Bensky, “Susan Sontag, Indignant, Stoical, Complex, Useful -- and Moral”, in The New York Times:

Chandralekha, a choreographer from Madras, India, has been described as a counterculturalist who draws on elements of classical Indian dance like Bharata Natyam and on Western modern dance.

1994 December 9, Jennifer Dunning, “DANCE REVIEW; Merging Body and Spirit To Produce a Single Essence”, in The New York Times:


chronologist

/kɹəˈnɒləd͡ʒɪst/

From French chronologiste. By surface analysis, chronology + -ist.

That learned noise and dust of the chronologist is wholly to be avoided.

1693, [John Locke], “§183”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:


chronicler

But he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make great material for his witty, sharp, melancholic writings.

2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 268:

A person who writes a chronicle or chronicles.


contortionist

An acrobat who is capable of twisting their body into unusual positions.


cosmetician

A person who manufactures or sells cosmetics.


cowpoke

(US, slang) A cowhand (one who tends free-range cattle)

(US, dated) A 19th-century device used around the necks of cows and other livestock to prevent them from challenging fencing. The action of the device was to poke the cow when the device came into contact with the fence.


house-sitter

talonvahti

person who temporarily protects someone else's house


Leonardo

A male given name from Italian, equivalent to English Leonard.


Rousseau

en-proper noun

Rousseau (countable and uncountable, plural Rousseaus)

From French Rousseau. Originally a French nickname for someone with red hair, from roux (“redhead”). Doublet of Russell. Compare russel.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Swiss philosopher.


boatman

From Middle English boteman, botman, bateman. Equivalent to boat + -man.

A sailor on a small vessel (boat), particularly its captain.


Raphael

Raphael (countable and uncountable, plural Raphaels)

/ˈɹæf.eɪˌɛl/

/ˌɹæf.aɪˈɛl/

/ˌɹɑ.faɪˈɛl/

/ˌɹæf.aɪˈɛl/

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Latin Raphael. From Koine Greek Ῥᾱφᾱήλ (Rhāphāḗl), from Hebrew רָפָאֵל (Rāfāʾēl, literally “God cures/has healed”).

der

(art) Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, an Italian Renaissance painter (1483–1520).


Confucius

Borrowed from Latin Confucius, from Mandarin 孔夫子 (Kǒng Fūzǐ, “Master Kong”).

Theſe Books mention only three Sects to have been in vogue in the World ; for of other Sects there is not the leaſt mention made. The firſt is the Sect of the Learned : The ſecond is called Sciequia : And the third Lancu. The firſt of theſe three is followed by all the Chineſes, and the adjacent People, which uſe the Chineſe Characters, as the Iſlanders of Japan, Corea, and Couchinchina : this Sect, which is that of the Learned, is taught to, and followed by none, but only thoſe and the Chineſes themſelves, and is the Antienteſt of all the Sects that were ever heard of in China : Out of this, about which a very great number of Books are writ, generally are choſen perſons fit for the Government of the Empire ; and therefore it is honoured and eſteemed above all others. The Doctrine of this Sect is not taught all at once, but they ſuck it in by degrees when they learn to Read or Write. The firſt Founder of this Sect was Confutius, the Prince of Chineſe Philoſophers, who is to this day honoured by all the Learned, with the Title of the The moſt Wiſe.

1669 [1665], John Nievhoff, “Of ſeveral SECTS in CHINA : Concerning PHILOSOPHY, and IDOL WORSHIP.”, in John Ogilby, transl., An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 216:

The thirty eighth Year of the Cycle Confucius was preferr’d for his great Merit to be Prime Miniſter of the Kingdom of Lû, his native Country. Thro’ his wiſe Counſel the Face of Affairs was ſoon chang'd throughout the Land ; he reform’d the Abuſes that had crept into it, and reſtor’d Honeſty in dealing ; he taught young Men to reſpect the old, and honour their Parents, even after their Deceaſe ; he inſpir’d the fair Sex with Mildneſs and Chaſtity ; and caus’d Sincerity, Uprightneſs, and all other civil Virtues to prevail among the People.

1738, “Annals of the Chinese Monarchs”, in A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet, volume I, London, translation of original by J. B. du Halde, →OCLC, page 167:

Applicants to higher schools had to pass entrance examinations reminiscent of those administered before 1966. This change, which came under attack in the fall of 1973 during the campaign to criticize Lin Piao and Confucius, pleased middle school teachers in No. 6 Middle School in Tan-tung, Liaoning.

1977, Thomas P. Bernstein, “Mobilizing Urban Youth to Go to the Countryside”, in Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages: The Transfer of Youth from Urban to Rural China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 98:

This is no longer a clue. It's a game. You may have just gotten checkmate, but we're playing Chinese checkers, and as my old friend Confucius say; the hunter has become the hunter-ed. The chaser has become the chosed. Dame Fortuna has had her franking privileges revoked. It seems the portrait has painted the artist, sketching the reverser, who has become the reverse-ed. But this time the suffixed will become the sufferer, and it appears the baby killer is about to kill a baby.

2007, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Xavier (Vernon Chatman):

An influential Chinese philosopher who lived 551 B.C.E. – 479 B.C.E.; personal name Kong Qiu (孔丘).


historiographer

/hɪˌstɔɹiˈɑɡɹəfəɹ/

May Your Majeſty be pleaſed to accept theſe remains of a noble Author, as they vvere collected by the care of Your late Hiſtoriographer; […]

1734, Mary Stephens, “To the King”, in [Francis] Bacon, Robert Stephens, compiler, edited by [John Lockyer], Letters and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, →OCLC, page [i]:

"That's a fine young fellow," said the historiographer of earwigs, to an American who stood next him in the crowd.

1856, L. S. Lavenu, chapter XVII, in Erlesmere; or, Contrasts of Character, volume 1, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 171:


hotelier

Coordinate term: (rare) hôtelière

Mumbai: Hotelier Gaurav Arya arrived at the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) office in Mumbai on Tuesday to record his statement in a money laundering case linked to actor Sushant Singh Rajput's death.

2020 September 1, “Goa Hotelier Being Questioned For Second Day In Sushant Rajput Case”, in NDTV.com:

Jim managed to secure employment in a hotel on the lake shore, but even then I could see that his interest in being a hotelier was waning.

2020 January 30, Maurice Holland, Just a simple innkeeper: The Journey of an Irish Hotelier, Australian Self Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 68, →ISBN:

He was, by nature and choice, a hotelier and destined to become the most famous hotelier in the world.

1964, Conrad N. Hilton, hotelier, page 75:


humorist

(medicine, now rare, historical) Someone who believes that health and temperament are determined by bodily humours; a humoralist.


dietitian

/daɪəˈtɪʃən/

Irregular spelling of diet + -ician, probably influenced by dietetic.

The dietitian works with the client to develop meal planning that meets the client's needs based on healthy food choices.

2013, Nutrition for Nursing, Edition 5.0, Assessment Technologies Institute, page 142:

A person who studies or practices dietetics.


Hume

A number of places in the United States:

An unincorporated community in Fresno County, California. Former name: Humes.

A village in Shiloh Township and Young America Township, Edgar County, Illinois.

Whiteside County
Whiteside County#English

A township in Whiteside County, Illinois.

An unincorporated community in Fauquier County, Virginia.


lollipop lady

Because the signs they carry resemble giant lollipops.

school crossing attendant
school crossing attendant

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A female school crossing attendant.

gangbrautarvörður

a female school crossing attendant — see also lollipop man, crossing guard, school crossing attendant


conservator

From Middle English conservatour, from Anglo-Norman conservatour, from Latin cōnservātor (“one who conserves”), agent noun from cōnservō (“I preserve”).

A professional who works on the conservation and restoration of objects, particularly artistic objects.


colorist

(loosely) One who believes in or subscribes to colorism.


brigadier

Borrowed from French brigadier. Equivalent to brigade + -ier.

(military) An army rank; an officer commanding a brigade.

(military, UK) A field officer of the highest grade, below general officers, NATO grade O7.

brigadier general
brigadier general#English

The supervisory staff of the farm did their work well, according to the source. All the brigadiers were old, experienced workers who knew their business.

1952, The Soviet Bloc as Reported by Former Nationals Interview Report:

(historical) The head of a workforce in the Soviet Union.


insurer

After the accident I contacted the insurer who paid for the repairs.

Federal law mandates that at least one nongroup insurer in your state must provide coverage to everyone, regardless of health issues.

2009 March 7, Walecia Konrad, “Hanging On to Health Coverage, if the Job Goes Away”, in The New York Times:

Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.

2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:


newsagent

A retail business selling newspapers, magazines, and stationery; a stationer.


scalper

iemand die toegangskaarten meestal duur doorverkoopt

(finance) A person on an open outcry exchange trading floor who buys and sells rapidly for his or her own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).


screenwriter

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One who writes for the screen, who writes drama for film or television; especially a professional who knows the conventions appropriate to such work.


sculptress

Nor may vve here omit to celebrate for the glory of the Sex, Propertia de Roſſi, a Florentine Sculptreſs; vvho having cut ſtupendious things in Marble, put forth alſo ſome rare things in Stampi to be encountred amongſt the Collections of the Curious.

1662, J[ohn] Evelyn, “Of the Invention and Progresse of Chalcography in Particular; together with an Ample Enumeration of the Most Renowned Masters, and Their Workes”, in Sculptura: Or The History, and Art of Chalcography and Engraving in Copper. […], London: […] J[ames] C[ottrel] for G. Beedle [i.e., Gabriel Bedell], and T[homas] Collins, […], and J[ohn] Crook […], →OCLC, book I, pages 52–53:

The opening of GALAS in Boston signifies the first organized presentation of lesbian-created art in this city. Over 60 photographers, painters, craftswomen, sculptresses, and performing artists are participating in this month-long celebration.

1980 August 2, C. T. McKee, Marcia Geier, “The Great American Lesbian Art Show Comes To Boston”, in Gay Community News, page 10:


smokejumper

(US, Canada) A firefighter who parachutes into a remote area to combat wildfires and set up firebreaks.


brewster

Circa 1300, from Middle English brewestere; equivalent to brew + -ster.

(British, Scotland) A brewer (of either sex).


schoolie

From school + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

Known as the Drug Awareness Network, it was able to find funding assistance for its work from the National Drug Education unit. The network devised a programme of activities which was later advertised to intending Schoolies by helpers walking the streets and distributing leafets containing information about forthcoming events.

1996, John Cotterell, Social Networks and Social Influences in Adolescence, page 176:

Some of the locals prey on the Schoolies.

2007, John Chalmers, Byron Bay Taxis and Lunacies, page 78:

If staying in November or December, the place is filled with hundreds of schoolies.

2009, Justine Vaisutis, Australia, Lonely Planet, page 338:

But the victim in this case had been a schoolie, she′d been assaulted during Schoolies Week, and her attacker might have been a fellow schoolie.

2010, Garry Disher, Blood Moon, page 17:

(Australia) A senior school student, especially a school-leaver, engaged in unsupervised celebrations during schoolies week.

leaver

senior school student attending school-leaving celebrations

1997 August, Lawrence Pine, Massachusetts′s Plymouth Rock Bass, Field & Stream, page 94,
Poppers and Clouser-style flies can produce large numbers of schoolies that average 16 to 24 inches, with a sprinkling of fish from 24 to 28 inches.

Oklahomans Jim Campbell and Gary Tyler caught 123 peacocks (including two teeners) by concentrating on the schoolies with jigs and other small lures that day.

2003, Larry Larsen, Amazon Peacock Bass Fishing: Top Tactics for Top Locations, page 150:

Schoolies tend to concentrate inside harbors and along beaches, often moving far inside tidal creeks and salt ponds.

2009, Tom Rosenbauer, Nick Lyons, The Orvis Guide to Beginning Fly Fishing: 101 Tips for the Absolute Beginner, page 88:

(US, fishing) A juvenile gamefish (especially striped bass) at a stage where it tends to swim with others in schools rather than stay to itself.

(equestrianism, informal) Synonym of school horse


seamstress

[…] the Seamſtreſs brought in her ſilver thimble, the Chamber-maid her Bodkin , the Cook his ſilver ſpoon , the Vintner his Bowl into the common Treaſury of War and they who contribured to ſo pious a work, were invited more then others in ſome Churches to come to the Holy Communion in the very time of adminiſtration; […]

1656, James Howell, Some Sober Inspections Made Into the Carriage and Consults of the Late Long-Parliament, whereby Ocaſsion is Taken to ſpeak of Parliaments in former Times, and of Magna Charta, with Some Reflexes Upon Government in General, pages 128-129:

They are seamstresses, who have plied the daily and nightly needle in the service of master tailors and close-fisted contractors, until now it is almost time for each to hem the borders of her own shroud.

1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Procession of Life”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:

“If you have finished blathering about men, perhaps you won’t mind skipping over the new seamstress you’ve no doubt found?"

1992, Robert Jordan, “Chapter 52: Need”, in The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time; 4), London: Orbit Books, published 2021, →ISBN, page 862:

A woman who sews clothes professionally.


gerontologist

A physician who specializes in gerontology


glassblower

But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.

2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:

A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.


futurist

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The distinction, however, seems to be that the warriors of the past went in for tournaments, which were at least dangerous for themselves, while the Futurists go in for motor-cars, which are mainly alarming for other people.

1910, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Futurists”, in Alarms and Discursions:

‘A passion for destruction is also a creative passion.’ This statement by the Russian revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin in 1842 could have been the rallying cry of the Italian Futurists around 1910.

2005, Alan Bartram, Futurist Typography and the Liberated Text, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 20:

(art) An adherent to the principles of the artistic movement of futurism.

Two multibillion-dollar industries—the computer manufacturers and telephone companies—had each developed its technologies separately. But as futurist Howard Rheingold suggests in his book Virtual Communities, the industries inadvertently gave private consumers access to those billion of dollars by selling them a tiny device to link the two technologies together: a computer modem.

2010, Douglas Rushkoff, Media Virus!, Random House, →ISBN, page 237:

One who studies and predicts possible futures.


futurist

en-adj

futurist (comparative more futurist, superlative most futurist)

more futurist (comparative)
most futurist (superlative)

Salvat took to heart what Marinetti was provocatively clamoring: “Futurist poetry, having already destroyed traditional metrics and created free verse, now destroys the Latin period and its syntax. Futurist poetry is a spontaneous uninterrupted flow of analogies, each synthesized in an essential noun”.

2016, Eduardo Ledesma, Radical Poetry: Aesthetics, Politics, Technology, and the Ibero-American Avant-Gardes, 1900-2015, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 126:

футурысты́чны

advanced so far beyond that which is current as to appear to be from the future


backup vocalist

en-noun

backup vocalist (plural backup vocalists)

(music) A member of a group of singers who provide backup vocals to a song

háttérénekes

a member of a group of singers who provide backup vocals to a song


lead vocalist

(music) A singer (or one of a small group of singers) who provides lead vocals to a song


schoolmarm

The schoolmarm came to an abrupt stop in her arithmetic quizzing, her face set into a pruny scowl that looked to be permanent.

2013, Josh Rountree, Lon Prater, Alamo Rising:

(US, slang) A female teacher, especially one seen to be old-fashioned and extremely severe and strict.


seminarian

I realized this all too well when as a seminarian I got stuck with the job of recruiting the washees for a Maundy Thursday service. It's much easier to be the one down on the floor with the basin[…]

1995, Margaret Guenther, Toward Holy Ground, page 43:


dirt farmer

A subsistence farmer; a farmer with no hired hands.


serviceman

A person, especially a man, employed in service and maintenance of equipment.


servicewoman

Coordinate term: serviceman

The run honors the 160 women who have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. There's one mile for each of the fallen servicewomen.

2014 October 21, Caterina Andreano, “Veteran Runs 160 Miles in 160 Hours to Honor Fallen Servicewomen”, in ABC News:

Unlike some Western countries it remains rare for Russian servicewomen to go to war.

2022 July 13, Will Stewart, “Vladimir Putin loses first servicewoman in Ukraine war as grief-stricken husband weeps”, in Daily Mirror:


medievalist

one who studies the culture and history of the Middle Ages

միջնադարագետ

one who studies culture and history in the Middle Ages


costumier

A person who supplies or designs costumes.


shouter

(music) A singer with an expressive, loud vocal style seen as reminiscent of shouting.


bandmaster

(music) The conductor of a musical ensemble, especially a brass or military band.


bandsman

(mining, historical) A labourer (loader) working with a band of men.


clothier

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From Middle English clother; equivalent to cloth + -ier; the word was later remodelled on words such as hotelier.

‘I think she should come out of black. Let me help dress her. I know the Italian clothiers.’

2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 33:

A person who makes or sells cloth or clothing.

vaatturi

a person who makes or sells cloth or clothing


beautician

Blend of beauty + technician, originally coined in Cleveland, Ohio, c. 1920s.

Someone who does hair styling, manicures, and other beauty treatments.


marathoner

She called on all the marathoners to go to Staten Island to help with the clean-up effort and to bring the clothes they would have shed at the start to shelters or other places where displaced people were in need.

2012 November 2, Ken Belson, “After Days of Pressure, Marathon Is Off”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2012-11-02:

“I just go as long as I can before my legs get too heavy and my head gets in a haze,” said Chris Zablocki, the best marathoner most elite marathoners have never heard of.

2018 March 16, Lindsay Crouse, “Is Chris Zablocki the Best Extreme Marathoner?”, in The New York Times:

Someone who participates in a marathon or other long-distance races.

maratoilari

someone who participates in marathons and other long-distance races


ultramarathoner

(athletics) Someone who participates in ultramarathons.

ultrajuoksija

someone who participates in ultramarathons


gutty

Perhaps from gutter, or guttersnipe. Or possibly from Irish gaotaire (“a windbag, someone who talks too much”).


snake charmer

A performer who entertains crowds by performing tricks with dangerous snakes.


shot-putter

(athletics) An athlete who competes in the shot put.


tlatoani

From Classical Nahuatl tlatoani (“ruler”).


caroler

It's Christmas at ground zero / There's music in the air / The sleigh bells are ringing / And the carolers are singing / While the air raid sirens blare

1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic (lyrics and music), “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party!:


carol singer

A person, often one of a group, who sings carols, especially at Christmas.


secret agent

A member of an intelligence agency whose identity or affiliation is kept confidential.


bin man

Back then, in an unspecified period between 1950 and 1980, the binmen were stronger, more hardworking and more polite.

2022 November 15, Dan Hancox, “‘Who remembers proper binmen?’ The nostalgia memes that help explain Britain today”, in The Guardian:

(British) A man with the job of collecting refuse from people's homes and transporting it to a refuse tip for processing.


skywriter

One who does skywriting. A pilot who writes messages, by leaving a trail of smoke from the plane, that are visible from the ground.


skycap

From sky + cap, modeled after redcap (“railroad porter”).

JAMES CARTER: You put your own shit in the back; I'm not a skycap.

1998, Jim Kouf, Ross LaManna, Rush Hour, California: New Line Cinema:


kickboxer

(martial arts) One who practices the martial art of kickboxing.


snowboarder

/ˈsnəʊˌbɔːdə/

The same is true in freeskiing, in which skiers pull tricks on some of the same terrain as snowboarders.

2008 January 25, Matt Higgins, “At X Games, One-Upmanship Is a Trend in High Places”, in The New York Times:

To Enni Rukajarvi, a Finnish snowboarder, the temperatures were not a problem — it was warmer than it often is at home, she pointed out — but the wind was tricky.

2022 April 2, John Branch, “U.S. snowboarder Jamie Anderson qualifies for the slopestyle final.”, in The New York Times:


lepidopterist

Someone who studies lepidoptery; someone who studies butterflies and moths.


neurotoxicologist

A toxicologist who specialises in neurotoxicology.


singer-songwriter

From dvandva compound of singer + songwriter.

A musician who both sings and composes, especially when recording or performing their own compositions.


dairymaid

Coordinate term: dairyman

But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window[…], and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.

1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:


Michelangelo

From Italian Michelangelo, from Michele (“Michael”) + Angelo (“Angel”), referring to Michael the Archangel.

In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo.

1915 June, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, in Prufrock and Other Observations, London: The Egoist […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 10:

Where did Picasso come from? / There's no Michelangelo coming from Pittsburgh

1990, Lou Reed, John Cale (lyrics and music), “Smalltown”, in Songs for Drella:

A 15th- and 16th-century Italian artist, full name Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564).


smelter

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We'll take the scrap to the smelter and get some money for it.


streetwalker

(informal, derogatory) A prostitute who looks for customers on the streets and in other public places.

уличница

prostitute who looks for clients on the streets


strategist

In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.

2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6:


porn star

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‘I had no idea she was filming me. I was a reluctant porn star, you could say,’ Adam replied.

2017, Carmel Harrington, Cold Feet: The Lost Years:

A person who performs sex acts in a pornographic film.


supercargo

en-noun

supercargo (plural supercargos or supercargoes)

supercargos (plural)
supercargoes (plural)

/ˈsuːpəˌkɑːɡəʊ/

From earlier supracargo, borrowed from Italian sopracargo, dialectal form of sopraccarrico, from sopra- + carrico.

[...] and at night, when the boat sailed along easily before a light breeze, and the sailors were gathered on the upper deck, while the captain and the supercargo lolled in deck-chairs, smoking their pipes [...]

1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 58”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

An officer on board a merchant ship who has charge of the cargo and its turnover (or the senior of two if one has two, the other being the subcargo; usually historical, since nowadays a person with such a job would remain on shore).

Cargadeur

a fake-French term used historically by the Hanse

Cargador m (same from Spanish, where it means a stevedore)


stagehand

Holonym: stage crew

Coordinate term: stage manager

The actors get the glory, the spotlight and the name up in lights while it is the stagehands who point the spotlight, hang the name and change the light bulbs.

A person who works behind the scenes at a theatre or in other theatrical media.

сценичен работник

person working behind the scenes in a theatre


Arabist

(anthropology, linguistics) A scholar who studies Arab or Arabic culture, politics, or language.

arabista

a scholar who studies Arab or Arabic culture, politics, or language

(historical) One who followed the Arabic system of medicine or (more broadly) scholarship.

(politics) One that wants to spread Arabic culture; an Arab nationalist.

arabista

politics: one that wants to spread Arabic culture


Arabist

en-adj

Arabist (comparative more Arabist, superlative most Arabist)

more Arabist (comparative)
most Arabist (superlative)

Pertaining to Arabism; medieval Arabic scholarship.

Pertaining to the study of Arabic language or culture.

Two of the most influential Arabist societies were established beyond the reach of Ottoman censors and police.

2015, Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans, Penguin, published 2016, page 24:

Pertaining to Arab nationalism; promoting Arab interests.


installer

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In the event industry there are two critical times when safety is often compromised, at bump-in and at bump-out. At bump-in the organizer is usually pressed for time and it is not uncommon for installers to work around the clock. At the end of the show or exhibition, bump-out carries an even higher risk as everyone is exhausted.

2014, Lynn Van Der Wagen, Lauren White, Human Resource Management for the Event Industry, page 110:


limner

Whether the skies be bright or cloudy,—whether the earth be clothed with flowers, or deformed with tempests,—the art of the limner has surrounded you with ‘a new heaven and a new earth;’ and you may bask in suns that never set, while the heavens are dark to other eyes,—and luxuriate amid landscapes and flowers, while half your fellow-creatures are perishing amid snows and tempests!

1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 276:

In Sir Henry Meredith's appearance there was nothing that won upon the sight, though the limner had done his best for him. The countenance had no character. But his consort was indeed lovely, like, and yet not like, the daughter who now watched her.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Morality of Diamonds”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 18:


avvocato

No one, not even the avvocato, ever asked the direct question, 'Do you know who made the fire, Peppina?'

1917, Florence Converse, “The Culprit”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 119, page 57:


storekeeper

When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

One who runs a shop, either the owner or manager.

a naval storekeeper

One who is in charge of stores or goods of any kind.

(US, colloquial, dated) Any unsaleable item.


ceramist

Wilson is part of a group of female ceramists from all over the globe who are meditating on the beauty of imperfection, age and artlessness, borrowing ideas from the past, including the Zen Buddhist philosophy of wabi-sabi.

2017 December 5, Alexa Brazilian, “The Beautifully Flawed Work of Emerging Ceramists”, in The New York Times Style Magazine:

The Corfu, Greece-born, London-based ceramist Agalis Manessi, 69, creates her animals — recumbent hounds, alert hares — from lumps of terra-cotta clay that she squeezes and manipulates “until a figure emerges.”

2021 August 19, Nancy Hass, “The Ceramists Crafting Miniature Menageries”, in The New York Times Style Magazine:

A person who makes ceramics objects; a potter.


chief of staff

en-noun

chief of staff (plural chiefs of staff or chiefs of staffs)

chiefs of staff (plural)
chiefs of staffs (plural)

Holonym: general staff

(military) The senior officer of any of several services of the armed forces of several nations.

(government, politics) The head of any of several political departments in several nations.


sportswriter

Alternative form of sports writer (journalist who specializes in sports).


Picasso

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), Spanish painter, best known as a founder of the Cubist movement.


candler

From Middle English candelere, equivalent to candle (noun) + -er.

A maker of candles is very properly called a candler; however, (as observed before) ch is seldom pronounced in this parish.

1829, Joseph Hunter, The Hallamshire Glossary:


canoeist

Though Hambleden's parish register records the death, in 1753, of a bargeman 'Kill'd by accident, shooting ye lock', the turbulent waters of Mill End weir on the River Thames, about a mile from the village, still attract canoeists.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 214, photo caption:

Those people who have a meaningful relation to that body of water — whether it be a fisherman, a canoeist, a zoologist, or a logger — must be able to speak for the values which the river represents . . .

1990, Richard Cartwright Austin, Reclaiming America: restoring nature to culture:


steeplejack

Whether it's a rigger or steeple jack or window washer or any person who has strong nerves and a skilled body.

1958, Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King:

A person whose job involves climbing tall structures like steeples in order to make repairs.

tolppa-apina

person whose job involves climbing tall structures in order to make repairs


steelworker

պողպատագործ

a person employed to manufacture or shape steel

The United Steelworkers strike closed the mill.

A person who manufactures or shapes steel.

The steelworkers and electricians went on strike, halting construction.

(uncommon) A person employed to build steel structures, an ironworker.

železář

a person employed to build steel structures, an ironworker


ironworker

A construction worker who assembles the metal frame of buildings.


carhop

I ended my aimless-roaming-short-term-odd-jobs lifestyle and joyfully went to work at a local restaurant in Langley Park, Maryland, as a carhop.

(US) A waiter or waitress who serves customers, especially in their vehicles, at a drive-in restaurant, sometimes on rollerskates.


caricaturist

/ˈkæɹɪkəˌt͡ʃʊəɹɪst/

But, the power of the caricaturist lies in exhibiting with increased ugliness personal and natural defects . . .

1828, Amelia Alderson Opie, Detraction Displayed:


toner

toner (countable and uncountable, plural toners)

→ Catalan: tòner

→ Czech: toner

→ French: toner

→ German: Toner

→ Portuguese: toner, tóner, tôner

→ Spanish: tóner

Powder used in laser printers and photocopiers to form the text and images on the printed paper.

то́нер

powder used in laser printers and photocopiers

Cosmetic lotion designed to cleanse the skin and shrink pores, usually used on the face.

洗劑 /洗剂

cosmetic lotion designed to cleanse the skin and shrink pores

(archaic or dialectal) A musician, particularly one that plays a wind instrument.


legger

Oh, you mean the ex-legger the eldest girl picked up and went and married.


moulder

en-verb

moulder (third-person singular simple present moulders, present participle mouldering, simple past and past participle mouldered)

moulders (present singular third-person)
mouldering (participle present)
mouldered (participle past)
mouldered (past)

From mould (“loose friable soil; rotting earth regarded as the substance of the human body”) + -er (suffix forming frequentative verbs), probably influenced by mould (“furry growth of fungi”). Mould is derived from Middle English mold, molde (“loose friable soil, dirt, earth; earth as the substance out of which God made man, and to which the human body decays into after death”), from Old English molde (“earth, soil”), from Proto-Germanic *muldō (“dirt, soil; furry growth of fungi, mould”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to crush, grind”).

inh

[Time's] gradual touch / Has moulder'd into beauty many a tower.

1772–1782, William Mason, The English Garden

And when the public, which has not been insensible to the merits of "Sense and Sensibility," "Pride and Prejudice," "Mansfield Park," and "Emma," shall be informed that the hand which guided that pen is now mouldering in the grave, perhaps a brief account of Jane Austen will be read with a kindlier sentiment than simple curiosity.

1817 December 20 (date written), Biographical Notice of the Author; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC, page v:

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; / It rains, and the wind is never weary; / The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, / But at every gust the dead leaves fall, / And the day is dark and dreary.

1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[Miscellaneous.] The Rainy Day.”, in Ballads and Other Poems, 2nd edition, Cambridge, Mass.: […] John Owen, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 111:

John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave, but his soul goes marching on!

The village once had a much higher status with a 14th-century castle - the last remnants of which are mouldering under earth banks in the local golf course.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 57:

Today the trackbed moulders, although Lancashire council reports that it's largely intact to around 1.5 miles south of Fleetwood.

2022 January 12, Philip Haigh, “Okehampton should be the start of railway restoration”, in RAIL, number 948, page 50:

(transitive, intransitive) To decay or rot.


chummy

en-adj

chummy (comparative chummier or more chummy, superlative chummiest or most chummy)

chummier (comparative)
more chummy (comparative)
chummiest (superlative)
most chummy (superlative)

Making a show of friendliness; attempting to be on intimate terms but insincerely or inappropriately; cozying up.


amanuensis

From Latin āmanuēnsis (“secretary”), from ab- (“from, off (of)”) + manus (“hand”) + -ensis (“of or from (a place)”), early 17th c.

affix

As pay was Lady Anne's object, and poor Georgiana was intended to be the amanuensis, should she be found capable of forming sentences out of disjointed hints, and of wrapping foul facts in clean composition.

1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 296-297:

One employed to take dictation, or copy manuscripts.

In consequence of this fashion of authors dictating their works, expedition came to be considered of the utmost importance; it was regarded as the chief accomplishment of an amanuensis; and he alone was considered as perfect in his art, whose pen could equal the rapidity of utterance: […]

1827, John Colin Dunlop, History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age, volume II:

“[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?[…]”

1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 12:

I, his mere amanuensis, am left to do what little I can to keep the institution functioning.

1974, John Gardner, “The Warden”, in The King's Indian:

A clerk, secretary or stenographer, or scribe.


blacktress

[…] this literary/arts center presents Manifesto Night, with readings by such notable playwrights, poets, teachers, and blacktresses as John Baldessari, Max Benevidez, Pam Gregg, Sue Spaid, David Schweizer, and Ms. Vaginal Creme Davis.

(slang, film, rare) An African American woman who is a pioneer of the film industry.


caulker

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stockbreeder

A person who breeds and raises livestock.


pipefitter

Near-synonyms: pipelayer (not always differentiated in practice), steamfitter (ditto)

An industrial tradesman who installs and maintains piping systems.

цю́бінгшчык

an industrial tradesman who installs and maintains piping systems


papergirl

Our current papergirl does a nicely consistent job of throwing the paper onto the porch. Our old papergirl sometimes would fling it into the bushes!

A girl who delivers newspapers to houses on a paper round.


chairwoman

1845, The New Statistical Account of Scotland
At a Reform dinner which took place in 1832, the united ages of three women, including the chairwoman, amounted to 264.


Van Gogh

From Dutch van Gogh (literally “from Goch”).

This sensation of an object becoming alive is a characteristic that, I believe, seizes all viewers of a van Gogh. The Bible goes beyond being a simple still-life object to become a living thing, an expression of strength, an existence that emanates from itself, beyond the painting surface to participate in our very lives.

2010, Antonio Saggio, A Secret van Gogh: His Motif and Motives, →ISBN, page 11:

Vincent van Gogh, Dutch draughtsman and painter.

فان غوخ

fān ḡōḵ, vān ḡōḵ


toastmaster

A person who introduces speakers, and proposes toasts at a formal dinner; a master of ceremonies.


martial artist

A practitioner and/or preceptor of martial arts.


girl band

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A pop group or rock band made up solely of young women.


representation theorist

en-noun

representation theorist (plural representation theorists)

representation theory
representation theory

An algebraist who specializes in representation theory


brown bomber

Refers to the colour of parking inspector uniforms worn for several decades in Sydney, Australia and other major cities.

1971, John O'Grady, Dealing with Cops, from Aussie Etiket. Quoted in Aussie Humour, Macmillan, 1988, →ISBN, page 200.
There is another kind called 'brown bombers'. They are very interested in parked cars. They put chalk marks on tyres and leave little notes, in envelopes, under windscreen wipers.

(Australia, slang) A parking officer, employed to issue parking tickets (i.e. fines) to vehicles parked illegally or for longer than the permitted time.


adjudicatrix

She hastened to the Committee of Public Safety, coming out of a notary’s office whither she had gone as adjudicatrix of a dry-goods establishment…

1920: J.-G. Prod’homme & Theodore Baker, The Musical Quarterly, Volume №6, Issue №3 — The Baron de Trémont: Souvenirs of Beethoven and Other Contemporaries, somewhere between pp366 & 391

♂: Noble Star (GB) b. M, 1927:
♂: Hapsburg (GB) br. M, 1911…
♀: Hesper (GB) gr. F, 1923…
♀: Judica (GB) F, 1937:
♂: Easton (FR) b. M, 1931…
♀: Judith (GB) ch. F, 1929…

1946: Pedigree Online: Thoroughbred Database, Adjudicatrix Horse Pedigree, two generations Adjudicatrix (GB) b. F, 1946

The claimant will answer the Adjudicatrix’s question. Those who do not comply with the commission are subject to standard punishment number one.

2000, “Procurer”, in LEXX: Tunnels, Episode №31, Season №3:

2002: Anor — The Standing Stones Campaign, Canticus Tredecem Bracchiorum — Hymn of the Thirteen Ringstones, 1ˢᵗ ringstone
Portans ascensus Legis, sunt Tredecem Bracchi Arbitris — Bearing the Ascendence of Law, these are the 13 Arms of the Adjudicatrix

A woman or girl who adjudicates; a female adjudicator.


milkmaid

(historical) A girl or young woman who milks the cows on a farm.

حالِبَه، عامِلَه في ملْبَنَه

a young woman who milks the cows on a farm


wharfie

“It’s a twenty-four-hour stoppage,” he said. “The wharfies went to the Arbitration Court for another pound a week for something or other, and they didn’t get it, so they’ve stopped work for a day to show their displeasure […]”

1952, Neville Shute, chapter 9, in The Far Country, London: Heinemann:

One night, soon after the battle of the Coral Sea, the US transport ship Shenandoah steamed up the Brisbane River to the wharves at Hamilton. She tied up just before eleven o′clock and at midnight a fresh shift of wharfies began unloading her cavernous holds.

2000, David Crookes, Someday Soon, unnumbered page:

But a group of wharfies rushed the ballot box, opened it, and ripped up some voting slips and threw others over a fence.

2008, Andrew Faulkner, Arthur Blackburn, VC: An Australian Hero, His Men, and Their Two World Wars, page 152:

In Fremantle the wharfies were crucial to my preselection. Gordon Harris was the secretary of the Fremantle wharfies, and we got on amicably until he decided to stand against me in 1958.

2009, Kim Edward Beazley, Father of the House: The Memoirs of Kim E. Beazley, page 131:

(Australia, New Zealand, informal, colloquial) A wharf worker: synonym of dockworker.


tattooist

Someone who draws or inks tattoos on people.


corn-factor

For years and years it had gone off in splendid style as long as any one could remember; ever since Kate and Julia, after the death of their brother Pat, had left the house in Stoney Batter and taken Mary Jane, their only niece, to live with them in the dark gaunt house on Usher's Island, the upper part of which they had rented from Mr Fulham, the corn-factor on the ground floor.

1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “The Dead”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, pages 216–217:

"My name is Henchard; ha'n't you replied to an advertisement for a corn-factor's manager that I put into the paper - ha'n't you come here to see me about it?"

1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 7, in The Mayor of Casterbridge:


sorter

A machine or algorithm that performs sorting.


frontman

“Baby, I was a loser / Several years on the dole / An Englishman with a very high voice / Doing rock ’n’ roll,” sings falsetto-happy frontman Justin Hawkins at the start of “Every Inch Of You,” Hot Cakes’ opener.

2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club:

Alternative spelling of front man: the lead male singer in a band.


clarinetist

“Benny Goodman was the King of Swing,” he used to tell Benny. “Best jazz clarinetist in the world.”

2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 56:


sous-chef

From French sous-chef. Compare Italian sotto capo, which was calqued into English as underboss. Perhaps there was ultimately an unattested term *subcaput in Late Latin, with a variant *subciput.

(cooking) The chef underneath the head chef in the chef's hierarchy.


functionary

A person employed as an official in a bureaucracy (usually corporate or governmental) who holds limited authority and primarily serves to carry out a simple function for which discretion is not required.

məmur

a person employed as an official in a bureaucracy


potboy

I put on my kitchen potboy disguise and rode down to B-1 in an elevator that smelled like chicken soup, barbecue sauce, and Jack Daniel's.

A boy employed as waiter to serve (pots of) drinks, as in a tavern.

(“Hoo-roa,” ejaculates a pot-boy in a parenthesis, “put the kye-bosh on her, Mary.”)

1837, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. The Second Series, London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC, chapter SEVEN DIALS, page 149:

(British) A boy or man employed in a public house to collect empty pots or glasses.


paleobotanist

How and when the earliest plants made the first move on to land is always a hot topic for palaeobotanists.

2018 March 23, Susannah Lydon, The Guardian:

A botanist who specializes in paleobotany; someone who studies plant fossils.


purser

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So the Comptroller and I thence to a tavern hard by, and there did agree upon drawing up some letters to be sent to all the pursers and Clerks of the Cheques to make up their accounts.

1660 February 11 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “February 1st, 1659–1660”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume I, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, →OCLC, page 339:

There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.[…]Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.

1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:

If we offend against any of the other rules (A's or B's) - that is if we, say, utter the formula incorrectly, or if, say, we are not in a position to do the act because we are, say, married already, or it is the purser and not the captain who is conducting the ceremony, then the act in question, e.g. marrying, is not successfully performed at all, does not come off, is not achieved.

1962, J. L. Austin, How To Do Things With Words:

“Cabin 459, sir.” “What deck?” “'A' deck, sir.” “That's second class.” “Yes, sir. You have a second-class ticket.” “There must be some mistake. I can't possibly have a second-class ticket.” The assistant purser examined another ledger, […]

2015 August 25, Michael Kilian, Dance on a Sinking Ship, Open Road Media, →ISBN, →OCLC:

The person responsible for handling the accounts on a ship, or for dealing with the passengers on a ship or aircraft.


bassoonist

From bassoon + -ist (“a person who uses something”).

af

Actually there was recently a talented young female bassoonist who gave up a promising career on that sturdy instrument, not to do something more feminine but to take up bullfighting. This is Patricia Hayes of San Angelo, Texas, who has had spectacular success in the arenas of Mexico and Portugal. Unfortunately she is not America's only matadoress.

1956 December 24, Cornelia Otis Skinner, “Women are misguided: They are still waging a shrill, ridiculous war over the dead issue of feminism”, in Life, volume 41, number 26, page 75:

Using the “endangered species” model employed by the World Wide Fund for Nature, campaigners are highlighting the scarcity of bassoonists and paving the way for the promotion of some other orchestral instruments that are under threat, such as the oboe, French horn, viola, trombone and double bass.

2015 August 1, Vanessa Thorpe, “Musicians launch campaign to save the bassoon as shortage threatens orchestra”, in The Guardian:

A person who plays the bassoon, a musical instrument in the woodwind family.


clergywoman

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An ordained (female) Christian minister; a female member of the clergy.

女牧師 /女牧师

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


teratologist

(teratology) A scientist specialising in teratology.


coffeemaker

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Upholsterer, Letter-Carrier, Foreign-Post, Coffee-maker, of each one.

1681, Thomas De Laune, The Present State of London, page 113:

If your cook is not habitually a good coffee-maker, the coffee will most probably be sent in cold, thick, and weak—for want of some previous supervision.

1839, Eliza Leslie, The Behaviour Book, page 35:

To be sure it had to be taken without milk, but there was plenty of sugar, and when Rod passed his tin cup for a second helping, the coffee-maker's face fairly beamed with gratified pride.

1892, Kirk Munroe, Cab and Caboose: The Story of a Railroad Boy, page 47:

One of the tests by which a Greek goddess is measured is the quality of her Greek coffee. There are many ways to prepare it, and a flawless result is uncontestable proof of proper technique. Medium, sweet, plain, “heavy” and sweet, “heavy” with no sugar, with or without a film of foamy bubbles are some of the many variations of an expert coffee maker. Can she prepare good coffee? She’s a goddess!

2018, Katerina Tsemperlidou, translated by Alexandra Kalapothaki, Greek Women are Goddesses, AKAKIA Publications, →ISBN:


printmaker

A person who makes prints of works of art, (particularly) a self-employed craftsman.


rounder

My daddy was a rounder, he wore a rounder's hat and coat.

1972, Mike Richards (lyrics and music), “Kentucky Hills of Tennessee”:

A Methodist preacher traveling a circuit, also referred to as a circuit rider.

methodistischer Wanderprediger

1923, Traditional(Arr. Fiddlin' John Carson), Casey Jones
Come all you rounders if you want to hear
A story I'm a-tellin' on a brave engineer
Casey Jones was this rounder's name
On a six-eight wheeler boys he won his fame...

A railroad man who worked at a roundhouse, operating the turntable.

Drehscheibenwärter

Verschiebedienstmitarbeiter an einer Drehscheibe

A person who earns a living by playing cards

professioneller Kartenspieler

2006, based on traditional, "Cocaine Habit", Old Crow Medicine Show
Take a whiff on me
Take a whiff on me
All you rounders, take a whiff on me
Hey, hey, honey, take a whiff on me

A person who makes the rounds of bars, saloons, and similar establishments; figuratively, a debaucher or roué

Herumtreiber

[…] itt is order'd that 18 Souldiers, 1 Corporall & 1 Rounder goe upon the Sloop […]

1683, Arthur T. Pringle, editor, Diary and consultation book of the Agent, Governor and Council of Fort St George:

One who rounds; one who comes about frequently or regularly.


business analyst

en-noun

business analyst (plural business analysts)

(business, operations) A person who analyzes the operations of an organization in order to develop a solution to its problems.


videographer

Videotaping by an experienced videographer can add so much life to your wedding memories that it is fast becoming a very popular wedding component.

2004, Teddy Lenderman, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Wedding:

Any person involved in the production of video material, but especially a person who uses a video camera.


geriatrician

(medicine) A medical doctor specialising in the assessment and treatment of elderly people.


tinman

He seemed to feel quite at home at the tinman's, although they were hammering and tapping away there all day, but people said that the gudewife put a dish of porridge up in the garret for him every Thursday evening; and it's no wonder that they got on well and became rich when they had a brownie in the house.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 11:


tinman

In allusion to the character Tin Man from the Land of Oz, who lacked a heart.

An uncaring or heartless man; a man lacking, or seeming to lack, feelings, emotions, or concern for others.

Tinman belongs to a special class of genes. [...] But some genes make proteins that control other genes. Some act like master switches, triggering many different genes to work together to build a structure. Tinman is one such “master gene” for the fruit fly.

2000, Carl Zimmer, “The Hidden Unity of Hearts”, in Natural History, volume 109, number 3, archived from the original on 2009-01-07, pages 56–61:

Drosophila melanogaster
Drosophila melanogaster#Translingual

(genetics) A master gene in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, whose absence causes the fly to develop without a heart.


sempstress

Two hundred Sempſtreſſes were employed to make me Shirts, and Linen for Bed and Table, all of the ſtrongeft and coarſeſt kind they could get; which, however, they were forced to quilt together in ſeveral Folds, for the thickeſt was ſome degrees finer than Lawn.

1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Of the Inhabitants of Lilliput; […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), pages 107–108:

I am sure he might pick and choose amongst the best dowried dowagers in England; and, instead of making any thing of himself, he has actually been all the way to Granard Park to look at his wife's picture, and make his bow to all the people who knew him, as "Manuello, the emigrant Italian," hunting up his sempstress and washerwoman, to make their old age comfortable, and talking religion with paralytic vicars and learned curates.

1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 301–302:

This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

They were composed of a heterogeneous collection of men and women of the lower layers of society, workmen, sempstresses, night watchmen, farm-hands, mechanics and railway-workers – a laic image in sharp contrast to the bourgeois image produced in the cathedral.

1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 950:


food stylist

A person who arranges food to make it appear attractive for advertisements.


baby wrangler

As a baby wrangler, it is her job to make sure that the babies on the set of a photo or television commercial shoot are content, so the photographer can get a good shot.

2007, Diana Lynn Barnes, Leigh G. Balber, The Journey to Parenthood, Radcliffe Publishing, →ISBN, page 63:

A person who makes children react to the drama of a scene during the filming of a commercial, television program or film. They may use noise makers or create games to make the children act naturally.

lapsinäyttelijän ohjaaja

person who makes children react to the drama of scene during filming


bootblack

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The young negro bootblack hummed "The Camp Meeting Blues" and polished in rhythm to his tune, drawing the shiny shoe-rag so taut at each stroke that it snapped like a banjo string.

1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 24, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:

(dated) A shoeshine boy; a person who shines shoes as an occupation.


shoeshine boy

A boy who polishes shoes as an occupation.


concertmaster

From concert + master, as a calque of German Konzertmeister.

(music, US) The first violin in a symphony orchestra; normally plays violin solos

канцэртма́йстар

the first violin in a symphony orchestra


punker

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1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Four big hippie bikers were out there drinking & eyeing up the punkers.

And famous punker Joe Strummer figures prominently in Mercury's life.

1988 July 29, Diana Spinrad, “Burnin' With the 8 Ball”, in Chicago Reader:

She was a crack-up, she thought she was such a punker. She always had some punk group on her headset.

2006, John De Herrera, The Kingsnake in the Sun, page 72:

(music, dated slang) Synonym of punk (“a musician known for playing punk rock or a fan of the genre”)


manicurist

Again and again, I watched as manicurists, bowed over a hand or a foot of a client, some young as seven, say, “I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m so, so sorry,” when they had done nothing wrong.

2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 91:


wind band

A musical group consisting solely of woodwind and brass instruments.


conquistador

conquistador (plural conquistadors or conquistadores)

conquistadors (plural)
conquistadores (plural)

A conqueror, but especially one of the Spanish soldiers that invaded Central and South America otherwise known as the doorways to the new world, in the 16th century and defeated the Incas and Aztecs.


gillie

From Scottish Gaelic gille (“helper”), from Middle Irish gilla (“youth, young man; boy, male child; messenger, page, servant”), possibly borrowed from Old Norse gildr (“brawny, stout; of full worth”). Compare Irish giolla (“boy”).

der

A Highland chief being as absolute in his patriarchal authority as any prince, had a corresponding number of officers attached to his person. […] Our officer of Engineers, so often quoted, has given us a distinct list of the domestic officers, who, […] belonged to the establishment of a Highland chief. These are, […] 4. Gillie-more, or sword-bearer, alluded to in the text. 5. Gillie-Casflue, who carried the chief, if on foot, over the fords. 6. Gillie-comstrain, who leads the chief's horse. 7. Gillie-Thrusha-narinsh, the baggage-man. 8. The Piper. 9. The piper's gillie, or attendant who carries the bagpipe.

1847, Walter Scott, “[Notes to Canto Third.] Note XVI.”, in The Lady of the Lake, a Poem, illustrated edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Carey and Hart, →OCLC, pages 289–290:

But my good companion had nothing in his mind but kindness; and the next moment, two of the gillies had me by the arms, and I began to be carried forward with great swiftness (or so it appeared to me, although I dare say it was slowly enough in truth), through a labyrinth of dreary glens and hollows and into the heart of that dismal mountain of Ben Alder.

1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:

(Scotland, originally) A male attendant of a Scottish Highland chief.

Every deerstalker will bear witness to the eagerness of Highlanders in pursuit of their old favourite game, the dun deer; the mountaineer shews what he is when his eye kindles and his nostril dilates at the sight of a noble stag; when the gillie forgets his master in his keenness, and the southern lags behind; when it is "bellows to mend" and London dinners are remembered with regret.

1860, “Introduction. The Fairy-egg, and What Came Out of It.”, in J[ohn] F[rancis] Campbell, editor, Popular Tales of the West Highlands: Orally Collected wih a Translation, volume I, Edinburgh: Edmondston and Douglas, →OCLC, page lxxxviii:

When dinner should be over, supper was to follow with scarcely any interval to speak of; and to partake of this other guests should be bidden—Svengali and Gecko, and perhaps one or two more. No ladies! For, as the unsusceptible Laird expressed it, in the language of a gillie he had once met at a servants' dance in a Highland country house, "Them wimmen spiles the ball!"

1894 March, George du Maurier, “Trilby”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume LXXXVIII, number DXXVI, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers, 325 to 337 Pearl Street, Franklin Square, →OCLC, part third, page 584, column 2:

[T]hough the fish run small, as indeed they all do in these small rivers, the strength of the water and the broken ground along the banks must make playing them an exciting business. Over twenty have been killed by one rod in a single day, and I should say that in most seasons some lucky man gets a bag of ten. But of course this sort of thing has to be paid for. Ten shillings a day is the charge for the river, and in addition to that there is your gillie.

1899, Stephen [Lucius] Gwynn, “Fishing and Golf in Donegal”, in Highways and Byways in Donegal and Antrim, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited; New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, pages 299–300:

Courage and coolness are great qualities in a gillie, and you do not really know your man till you have been with him in a storm. […] Most gillies have cool heads and hearts of oak. They must have these qualities; to be cool and courageous is part of their job.

1994, Jeremy Paxman, Fish, Fishing and the Meaning of Life, London: Michael Joseph, →ISBN:

[H]e said, "I hae the day off tomorrow. I'll take ye out on the Anstey if ye want." This met with Patricia's ideas of what was right or fitting. Fishing on a Scottish river with a policeman as ghillie was socially acceptable to her mind.

1998, M. C. Beaton [pseudonym; Marion Chesney], chapter 1, in Death of a Scriptwriter (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery), New York, N.Y.: Mysterious Press, →ISBN:

Before we knew it, we were on a Fokker, twin engine, jet aircraft out of Copenhagen bound for Stavenger, Bergen and Trondheim, Norway, where we rested up for two days before boarding a four passenger float plane in the tiny Village of Hell. The Land Rover manned by our gilly (guide) waited where the A-Elv River joined the sea at the head of the fjord.

2010, John W. Stevens, “Atlantic Salmon from Hell and Back”, in Memorable Fish and Fishermen, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN:

(British, Ireland, Scotland) A fishing and hunting guide; a man or boy who attends to a person who is fishing or hunting, especially in Scotland.


gillie

en-verb

gillie (third-person singular simple present gillies, present participle gillying, simple past and past participle gillied)

gillies (present singular third-person)
gillying (participle present)
gillied (participle past)
gillied (past)

I had taken bigger fish on the Alta, while fishing as Tony Pulitzer's guest on the Jöraholmen farm, but never under circumstances as bizarre as the day I found myself being ghillied by a girl.

[I]t was distance casting that changed my life. I started by gillying for [William] Taylor, retrieving his line between long casts and laying it out in tangle-free coils on the platform at his side.

1998, Phil Genova, quoting Joan Salvato Wulff, “Community Programs”, in First Cast: Teaching Kids to Fly-fish, Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 281:

Pike they were after. […] They'd sit for hours watching their echo sounder and then when the big bleep would come on it, they'd lower the big baits and wait for the mother of all battles. The first time Frank saw the gear he thought they were going to use depth charges to blow the fish out of the water and he thought this was great crack. Far better than gillying for Northern Irish or Scots who wouldn't give ya a fright. But the Germans were great and every Christmas there'd be a big box of chocolates and clothes from Berlin.

2000, Declan Varley, chapter 4, in Nightmusic, Ireland: Declan Varley, →ISBN:

(intransitive) To be a gillie, a fishing or hunting guide, for (someone).


cutler

From Middle English coteler (“knife-maker”), from Anglo-Norman cuteler, from Old French coutelier (“knife-maker”).

One whose business is making or dealing in cutlery.


costumer

From costume + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (Variety “-er”).

A person who designs, makes or supplies theatrical costumes; a costumier.

A person who wears a costume or takes part in cosplay.

The success of this lush costumer encouraged Woo to try his hand at comedy.

2000, Yoram Allon, Del Cullen, Hannah Patterson, The Wallflower Critical Guide to Contemporary North American Directors:


counterman

I looked for the counterman, seeing him serving a plate of pork chops and grits to a man with a pale blond moustache.

1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 179:

(US) A man who serves behind a counter, especially in a diner.


cowhand

From cow + hand, or perhaps blend of cowboy + farmhand.

Though a first rate cow hand he very shortly proved himself to be wholly incapable of acting as head.

1886 April, Theodore Roosevelt, “Ranch Life and Game Shooting in the West”, in Outing, volume 8, number 1, page 3:

I'm an old cowhand from the Rio Grande / but my legs ain't bowed and my cheeks ain't tan […]

1936, “I'm an Old Cowhand (from the Rio Grande)”, Mercer, Johnny (music):

One who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West.


cowherd

From Middle English couherde, from Old English cūhierde, equivalent to cow + herd (“herder”). Doublet of Coward (the surname). Cognate with German Kuhhirte (“cowherd”). Compare shepherd, goatherd, swineherd, etc.