advice columnist

advice columnist (plural advice columnists)

The columns consist of letters from men and women with problems, followed by brief answers from the advice columnist. The letters are often filled with emotion.

1984, Hilarie N. Staton, Think and Write, Good Year Books, →ISBN, page 115:

Ann Landers, who sometimes wrote her columns from her bathtub, called herself “the general manager of the world,” which pretty much describes the types of questions an advice columnist might be called upon to answer.

2006, Alecia T. Devantier, Carol A. Turkington, Extraordinary Jobs in Media, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 1:

Margaret Maron, author of Winter's Child "A really plummy mystery, flawlessly plotted, that I especially loved because the heroine is an advice columnist — and a good one!"

2007, Roberta Isleib, Deadly Advice, Penguin, →ISBN:

Readers, at least contemporary ones, are aware that writing to an advice columnist is an odd place to turn for help. They didn't doubt, however, that people still wrote to advice columns.

2017, David Gudelunas, Confidential to America: Newspaper Advice Columns and Sexual Education, Routledge, →ISBN:

Someone who regularly writes for the advice column of a newspaper.

答問專欄作者 /答问专栏作者 (dáwèn zhuānlán zuòzhě) (no equivalent exists, lit., "answering-questions-column writer")


starving artist

en-noun

starving artist (plural starving artists)

A person who works as an artist or performer despite making little or no money for it, therefore suffering in poverty.


king of kings

Attested in Middle English as king of kinges. An ancient formula which seems to have originated in a Semitic language of the Ancient Near East; see Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠𐭭 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (šāhān-šāh, “king of kings”) for more.

noncog

These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 17:14:

The title of an individual king who has other kings as subjects; in particular:


headswoman

No candid person will wholly dismiss the proposition that the idea of having a Lord Chancellor but not a Lady Chancellor may at least be connected with the idea of having a headsman but not a headswoman, a hangman but not a hangwoman.

1910, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World, chapter 3 part 9:

A female headsman; a female executioner that carries out executions by decapitation.


rampie

Make life difficult for the other rampies and it's just a matter of time before you're out the door. Mikey has spent enough time with rampies and is savvy enough to know how important they are to Buffalo's success.

2012, Michael Vlessides, The Ice Pilots: Flying with the Mavericks of the Great White North:

(aviation, informal) A member of the groundcrew.


teledermatologist

A dermatologist who practices teledermatology


sotnia

On March 27 Mischtschenko marched from Koksan to Chonju, with 2 sotnias out of the 6 as advance guard.

1908, Reconnaissance in the Russo-Japanese War, page 33:

In the wide plains that lay between the border forests of Russia and Austria, sotnias of Cossacks galloped about, uniformed winds in military order, mounted on the short, nippy horses of their native steppes […].

2002, Josepth Roth, translated by Michael Hofmann, The Radetsky March, Folio Society, published 2015, page 134:

(now historical) A Russian or Ukrainian army unit of about a hundred soldiers, chiefly with reference to Cossacks.


towerman

(rail transport, US) a person employed in a railroad switch tower to control and direct the movement of cars and trains.


crossing keeper

en-noun

crossing keeper (plural crossing keepers)

All these level crossings have hand-operated gates, and are manned by crossing-keepers.

1951 September, B. D. J. Walsh, “The Sudbury and Haverhill Line, Eastern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 619:

(rail transport) A member of railway staff who looks after a level crossing.


sectionman

1916, Annual Report of the Public Utilities Commission, State of Maine, Sentinel Publishing Company https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hi1FAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA56&lpg=RA2-PA56&dq=%22sectionman%22&source=bl&ots=i9BCwYgdC9&sig=d72pK2gH6efsfs4_I_v6M619s-g&hl=no&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjT1uqotJ_dAhXCCMAKHfhZCTE4ChDoATAEegQIBhAB#v=onepage&q=%22sectionman%22&f=false
... a sectionman was killed when his motor velocipede was struck by an extra freight on a curve; a sectionman was crushed between two cars when working on a track left unprotected; a sectionman was struck by a shifting engine; …

Sectionmen step back to admire a T&P Texas in West Texas as the 2-10-4 comes charging up bad Baird Hill.

1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co. (photo caption)

Being on the engine when the engineer applied the brakes I asked why he was stopping and he said "there's a sectionman fighting with a wolf". So I backed up to the spot and the fireman and I jumped off with pick and shaker bar. I hit the wolf on the head with the pick and fireman Grier hit it with the shaker bar. This finished the wolf.

2013, Canadian Folk: Portraits of Remarkable Lives, by Peter Unwin, Dundum, →ISBN:

(rail transport, US, Canada) A railroad worker who maintains and patrols the track.


mail clerk

Flange-stacked and cone-nosed, a Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis J-3 4-8-4 gives the mail clerks a look at the trim Alco as she leads the Dixie Limited out of Smyrna, Ga.

1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 74 (photo caption)

(rail transport) a person who sorts mail in a mail car on a train.


keelboatman

By and by the steamboat intruded. Then for fifteen or twenty years, these men continued to run their keelboats down-stream, and the steamers did all of the upstream business, the keelboatmen selling their boats in New Orleans, and returning home as deck passengers in the steamers.

1870, Mark Twain, chapter 3, in Life on the Mississippi:


mongerer

Come old mutton mongerer, despatch! despatch!

1893, Marcus Clarke, Chidiock Tichbourne Or The Catholic Conspiracy, page 44:

Monkfish, the poor man's lobster, according to my fish mongerer, tasted very similar to lobster almost better in my eyes.

2011 December 21, Pluffmud (username), “Mock lobster”, in Allrecipes.com, archived from the original on 2019-06-16:

(proscribed) Alternative form of monger.

Alternative form of monger.
One who sells a particular commodity.

What is wanted primarily, shall I say, in the teacher, is that he be a man or that she be a woman, not a method mongerer.[…] By method is meant the law of the mind’s movement. This is a narrower field than that of psychology and even more fruitful of suggestion to the teacher.

1894, A.G. Boone, “General Culture as an Element in Professional Training”, in Joint Documents of the State of Michigan, volume 3, page 43:

He was also an orator of no mean ability. He was not a phrase mongerer, but a man of ideas, and capable of presenting them in a clear and concise manner.

1918, George Franklin Wisner, The Wisners in America and Their Kindred, page 211:

Are you entertaining whores with my gelt? Is my nephew a mongerer of whores?

2002, Jonathan Goldstein, Max Wallace, Schmelvis: In Search of Elvis Presley’s Jewish Roots, →ISBN, page 82:

Alternative form of monger.
One who promotes something undesirable.


Tiffy

(UK, RAF slang) A Hawker Typhoon fighter-bomber aircraft.

(South Africa, SADF slang) A military mechanic.


camel driver

"Yes, psychic power in its varied manifestations is found in humble quarters, but surely that has been its main characteristic from the beginning - fishermen, carpenters, tent-makers, camel drivers, these were the prophets of old."

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

One whose occupation is to direct, handle and care for camels, especially as a part of a caravan travelling long distances.


sidegirl

An assortment of sidemen (and sidegirls) provide a varied accompaniment on mouth-harp, dulcimer, fiddle, and, of course, guitar.

Playing lead alto saxophone and doubling on soprano, Patterson stands to announce each tune in a set, beats off the tempo and then credits each "sidegirl" at song's end for the solos performed.

1980 November 15, Dave Dexter Jr., “Billboard”, in All-Female Big Band Rolls In L.A., volume 92, number 46:

The sidegirls paraded into their place beside the gangplank;

2016, Mike Shepherd, Kris Longknife: Bold, →ISBN, page 218:

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


histotechnologist

A scientist working in the field of histotechnology.


houseperson

houseperson (plural housepersons or housepeople)

housepersons (plural)
housepeople (plural)

GWM, 30, good background seeks live-in cook-houseperson pos. for Sept.

1977 August 20, “Personal Advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 7, page 18:


infectionist

infectious disease specialist
infectious disease specialist

(rare, medicine) An infectious disease specialist.


type designer

(typography) A person who designs typefaces as a profession.


sea captain

The captain of a ship, as distinguished from a captain in the army.


check-taker

(archaic) A person employed to collect admission tickets at a theatre or on a train, etc.


sopranoist

Someone who plays the soprano saxophone.


daigou

daigou (countable and uncountable, plural daigous)

From Mandarin 代購／代购 (dàigòu, “to buy on someone's behalf”).

zh-l

A business practice in which a person outside of China purchases commodities for a customer in mainland China.


mechanical engineer

en-noun

mechanical engineer (plural mechanical engineers)

mechanical engineering
mechanical engineering#English

Someone who specializes in mechanical engineering.

ingénieur en mécanique

someone who specializes in mechanical engineering


burn-the-wind

(Scotland, obsolete, slang) A blacksmith.


knife-boy

(historical) A boy employed to clean knives.


water polo player

(translation hub) A player of water polo


jujutsuka

A practitioner of any type of jujutsu/jujitsu martial arts, except judo.


sumpman

(mining) A pitman's assistant, responsible for the machinery in the engine shaft.


eggman

"There's no reason now," said the eggman, gazing at her.

1968, Donald Richie, Companions of the holiday:

Every few weeks, Mr. Farber the eggman would visit us in our third-floor, East Bronx apartment. He delivered eggs and collected premiums for Workmen's Circle life insurance policies.

2010, Burt Alpert, Rachmones: The Passion of Hebraic Empathy, A History, →ISBN, page 79:

Pullets became hens in the henhouse, producing eggs that Kate swapped at Henry's for coffee and salt, or that Kate collected in egg cartons in the toolshed for the Boston eggman to pick up every two weeks, fresh eggs.


longshoreperson

longshoreperson (plural longshorepersons or longshorepeople)

longshorepersons (plural)
longshorepeople (plural)


infantryperson

infantryperson (plural infantrypersons or infantrypeople)

infantrypersons (plural)
infantrypeople (plural)

(nonstandard, rare) An infantryman or infantrywoman.


fetopathologist

(pathology) A pathologist whose speciality is fetopathology


aleatoricist

An artist who uses aleatoricism in the creation of art.


bricolagist

(art) An artist who uses bricolage in the creation of art.


cloisonnist

An artist who works in the cloisonnism style.


longhunter

(historical) An 18th-century hunter and explorer of the American frontier, especially in the Ohio River basin area.


Thin Red Line

William H. Russell, Times Correspondent at the Battle of Balaclava wrote that he could see nothing between the charging Russians and the British regiment's base of operations at Balaclava but the “thin red streak tipped with a line of steel”. The condensed phrase “the thin red line” came to represent British composure in battle.

(historical) The members the 93rd Regiment of the British Army who met the charge of the Russian cavalry at the Battle of Balaclava in 1854.


subcontrabass saxophonist

subcontrabass saxophonist (plural subcontrabass saxophonists)

subcontrabass saxophone
subcontrabass saxophone

A person who plays the subcontrabass saxophone.


contrabass saxophonist

contrabass saxophonist (plural contrabass saxophonists)

contrabass saxophone
contrabass saxophone

A person who plays the contrabass saxophone.


bass saxophonist

bass saxophonist (plural bass saxophonists)


baritone saxophonist

baritone saxophonist (plural baritone saxophonists)

A person who plays the baritone saxophone.


tenor saxophonist

tenor saxophonist (plural tenor saxophonists)


alto saxophonist

alto saxophonist (plural alto saxophonists)


soprano saxophonist

soprano saxophonist (plural soprano saxophonists)

A person who plays the soprano saxophone.


sopranino saxophonist

sopranino saxophonist (plural sopranino saxophonists)

A person who plays the sopranino saxophone.


soprillo saxophonist

soprillo saxophonist (plural soprillo saxophonists)

A person who plays the soprillo saxophone (soprillo).


sopranissimo saxophonist

sopranissimo saxophonist (plural sopranissimo saxophonists)

A person who plays the sopranissimo saxophone (soprillo).


glue-boiler

A specialized profession practised in the developed world up to the early twentieth century that made, from particularly cattle bones, the adhesives used in for instance paperwork, bookbinding, joinery, ivory inlay.


school dinner lady

school dinner lady (plural school dinner ladies)

The action is in support of schooldinner ladies who have been told by the county council that their holiday pay is being stopped.

[1982 May 25, “Pupils may be sent home”, in Herald Express, page 2:

Jill Bennett recreates her superb characterisation of a school-dinners’ lady with an appetite more for a bit of roly-poly than jam.

[1986 June 27, The London Standard, page 21:

(UK) A woman employed to prepare, serve or supervise school dinners.


wooldriver

A person who buys up wool to sell it at a market.


gynecopathologist

A pathologist whose speciality is gynecopathology


neurographer

A radiographer whose speciality is neurography


traditional birth attendant

traditional birth attendant (plural traditional birth attendants)

(medicine) A person who provides basic maternity care primarily from experience as well as the traditions and practices of a community.


microevolutionist

Someone who believes in microevolution, especially as opposed to macroevolution.


child of the kitchen

child of the kitchen (plural children of the kitchen)

Then in the hall kitchen, two clerks of the kitchen, a clerk comptroller, a surveyor of the dresser, a clerk of the spicery; all which together kept also a continual mess in the hall; also, in his hall kitchen, he had of master cooks two; and of other cooks, labourers, and children of the kitchen, twelve persons : four yeomen of the silver scullery, two yeomen of the pantry, with two other pastelers under the yeomen.

1815, Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale, London and Middlesex: or, An historical, commercial, & descriptive survey of the Metropolis of Great-Britain, page 370:

The master-cook began his career with apprenticeship at the lowest level, as a child of the kitchen, where he was subject to harsh discipline: as Olivier de la Marche points out, the master-cook's ladle was for hitting the children as well as for tasting sauces. Careers were often slow: in the French royal kitchens, Jean Jart was a child of the kitchen in 1386, and a master-cook only in 1418.

2014, Alan Davidson, Tom Jaine, The Oxford Companion to Food, page 216:

The Kitchen :—John Waleston, chief clerk; 8 others. John Cace, master cook; eleven others, with twelve children of the kitchen.

2015, J. S. Brewer, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII:

Many of the roles had been renamed over the previous 50 years — The Georgian children of the kitchen and boys of the kitchen (all adults, despite the names) had disappeared, while the turnbroaches of an earlier era no longer actively turned spits, and were now roasting cooks.

2017, Annie Gray, The Greedy Queen: Eating with Victoria, →ISBN:

(historical) An unskilled kitchen worker assigned to menial tasks.


Tuskegee Airman

Tuskegee Airman (plural Tuskegee Airmen)

These pilots trained at Moton Field Municipal Airport, the Tuskegee Army Air Field and were educated at Tuskegee University, located near Tuskegee, Alabama.

(historical, chiefly in the plural) One of a group of African American military pilots who served during World War II.

Moton Field Municipal Airport
Tuskegee Airmen
Tuskegee University


fine artist

An artist who creates only aesthetic art; an artist who persists in fine arts as opposed to industrial or functional arts.


Frege

Gottlob Frege, a German mathematician and philosopher.


bridgemaker

A person who designs and/or constructs bridges.

(figuratively) A person who connects others.


pancreatologist

A clinician whose speciality is pancreatology


cityscapist

Like other cityscapists, Van de Velde attempted to fit the entire city into his painting. He therefore depicted it from a distance and at a wide angle, so that the entire length of the city walls would fit in the picture.

2004, Albert Blankert, Selected writings on Dutch painting:


lorryman

A person employed to operate a lorry (cart or wagon for transporting coke etc.).


track worker

Essentially, our point is that while Britain's railways are seen as among the safest in the world, that situation is now seriously under threat by a combination of a rise in the number of near misses that are occurring as well as an increase in incidents arising from line blockages. In both these areas, the safety of track workers is put at risk.

2019 October 23, “Network News: TSSA raises safety concerns to Williams Review”, in RAIL, number 890, page 19:

(rail transport) Alternative form of trackworker.


housestaff

housestaff (countable and uncountable, plural housestaff)


taraxacologist

Generally speaking, for the experienced taraxacologist, it is easier to identify material in the field. Constructing a key for the identification of dandelions presents considerable difficulties.

1997, A. A. Dudman, Dandelions of Great Britain and Ireland, page 17:

The problem of handling numerous taxa has been solved differently by the batologists and the taraxacologists.

1999, Inger Nordal, The Species Concept in the High North:

One who studies taraxacology or dandelions.


human geographer

human geographer (plural human geographers)


merchant mariner

merchant mariner (plural merchant mariners)

A sailor who works on a merchant marine (vessel), that is, in a merchant marine (fleet).


derrickhand

A worker on an oil rig, working on a raised platform from which they guide instruments in and out of the well.


pinman

The modern haberdasher has swallowed up the mercer, the draper, the skinner, among the ancient trades, and the hosier, the glover, the needlemaker, the pinman, and we know not how many more, among more modern trades.

1850, The Gentleman's Magazine - Volume 187, page 27:

The second pinman, similarly equipped, also accompanies the surveyor, and relieves the first when the pins of the latter are used up.

1870, Extracts from the Manual of Signals: Signal Service Drills, page 32:

In substance, it was alleged that appellee and two other members of a switch crew were engaged in transferring cars from one switch track to another, and that as he was walking upon and near the end of the last car but one, the pinman, as he is designated in the testimony, without notice or warning uncoupled the last car and signaled the engineer to reverse the movement of the train, which was suddenly done, thus throwing appellee forward and off the car.

Of course, we sent a bunch of pretty good pinmen to Berlin in 1936 for all-out bowling war.

1942, The American Legion Magazine - Volumes 32-33:

The lay-out cat maneuvered, snorting and starting and stopping, and the pinman bobbed on and off, unhooking the wagons one by one.

2003, Edward Hoagland, Cat Man, page 56:

When the hole was drilled, the pinman slipped a 6 x 6 inch steel plate with a hole in the center over the end of a 4-foot, steel-ribbed glue pin, pushing it down to the head of the pin.

2009, Michael D. Guillerman, Face Boss, page 77:

One whose job involves working with pins (any sense).


ladderman

Back in his office, Tony Spivak received a call from the ladderman at the casino where Peggy had won so heavily at baccarat.

1979, Ian Andersen, The Big Night, page 184:

A casino employee who supervises the baccarat table from a tall chair, watching for cheating etc.


foreign legion

A military unit of one country that is composed of volunteers from another country.


arrowmaker

/ˈæɹəʊˌmeɪkɚ/


little piecer

A junior assistant to a minder working in a cotton mill.


supply priest

(Catholicism, Anglicanism) A priest not assigned to a particular parish who is available to substitute temporarily for a parish priest who is ill, on vacation, or otherwise unavailable.


desultor

(historical) A person skilled at leaping from one horse or chariot to another.


dog handler

A person trained to handle a dog, especially a police dog or a K-9 unit in the military


dog officer

A police officer who is in charge of a police dog

A police dog who is in charge of a police officer


amphipodologist

A biologist who specialises in crustacea of the order Amphipoda


picornavirologist

Picornavirologists should be proud that several most important discoveries in the molecular biology of RNA replication have been made by using their viruses.

1999, “Paradoxes of the replication of picornaviral genomes”, in Virus Research, volume 62, page 129:

I deeply appreciate their help, not only now but also at different stages of my my activity as a picornavirologist.

2015, Esteban Domingo, Virus as Populations: Composition, Complexity, Dynamics, and Biological Implications:


nurse auxiliary

A person providing health care at a level junior to that of a nurse.


bathman

[H]e described the speech of the charwoman washing the hotel stairs and gave lists of words collected from the bathmen.

1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 75:


advocate general

advocate general (plural advocates general or advocate generals)

advocates general (plural)
advocate generals (plural)

A senior law officer advising a government.


VTuber

From Japanese VTuber, from English virtual + YouTuber.

virtual YouTuber
virtual YouTuber#English


infectious disease specialist

infectious disease specialist (plural infectious disease specialists)

(medicine) A physician who specializes in the medical field of infectious diseases.


TikToker

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“TikTok has brought a younger group of creators. That energy is kind of pushing on a lot of older creators,” said Josh Sadowski, 19, a TikToker with nearly four million followers who lived in another TikTok collab house.

2020 January 3, Taylor Lorenz, “Hype House and the Los Angeles TikTok Mansion Gold Rush”, in The New York Times (newspaper), retrieved 2020-04-06:

When a young TikToker called @idrinkurmilkshake winkingly identified herself as a member of the “Pfizer Gang,” she kicked off a joking rivalry that tore ebulliently through the internet.

2021 April 27, Amanda Hess, “Inject the Vaccine Fan Fiction Directly Into My Veins”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

From arguing in the comments section over the best way to work your glutes to critiquing someone's deadlift skills, there's always some kind of disagreement brewing between gym-going TikTokers.

2022 January 14, Jade Biggs, “This TikTok of a woman squatting in the gym is dividing people”, in Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-04:

Here TikTokers are finding that they've failed the 'unspoken rizz' test with hilarious outcomes.

2022 May 20, Dave Deiley, “What does "unspoken rizz" mean on TikTok?”, in Dexerto, archived from the original on 2022-12-02:

(social media) A user of the video-sharing app TikTok, especially one who creates videos.


fork grinder

There is, perhaps, no trade which is more destructive of human life than that of the fork-grinder was until the peculiar respirator was made obligatory.

1877, John George Wood, Nature's Teachings, page 356:

The fork-grinders of Sheffield worked in an atmosphere of stone and metal particles, where lung disease was endemic […].

2016, Peter Ackroyd, Revolution, Pan Macmillan, published 2017, page 266:

(now historical) Someone whose job is to grind metal forks.


clay courter

(tennis) A tennis player who plays on a claycourt


bossale

From French bossale, from Spanish bozal (“wild, untamed, raw; born in Africa and recently enslaved in a colony”). Doublet of bozal and bosal.

m+

In Louisiana, French colonists relied on bossales later than elsewhere as they first imposed the slavery system on Amerindians only. The first slave ship carrying Africans arrived in 1719 […]

2019, Aline Helg, Slave No More: Self-Liberation before Abolitionism in the Americas, UNC Press Books, →ISBN, page 76:

(historical) A black African-born enslaved person in a French (or sometimes other European) colony, especially Haiti (as opposed to a slave born in the colony).

bozal

slave recently brought from Africa to a Spanish or other European colony


tripman

(historical) A person hired to transport goods by boat in the North American fur trade.


megaduke

From Byzantine Greek μέγας δούξ (mégas doúx, literally “great leader”). By surface analysis, mega- + duke.

bor

Roger de Flor was given the title of megaduke and the King of Bulgaria's daughter as his wife.

1968, Alan Lloyd, The Spanish Centuries, page 56:

In September 1169 the Byzantine admiral, the megaduke Andronicus Contostephanus, arrived in Tyre […]

1979, Jean Richard, translated by Janet Shirley, The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, volume 1, page 50:

After Manuel's death, the actual number of ships and sailors under the megaduke had declined significantly, and the sailors tended to consist of unreliable foreigners.

1987, John V. A. Fine, Jr., The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest, page 35:

(historical, military) The commander in chief of the Byzantine navy.


mayor of the palace

en-noun

mayor of the palace (plural mayors of the palace)

(historical) In the Merovingian kingdoms, the king’s steward and, by the 7th century, de facto regent.


mail lady

The mail lady just arrived...with 3 letters from you which I was cheered to get.

1988, Flannery O'Connor, Sally Fitzgerald, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, page 142:

The mail lady enters, singing to herself, the proverbial bull in a china shop.

1993, Claudia Allen, She's Always Liked the Girls Best: Lesbian Plays, page 142:

...put up the flag for the mail lady.

In the winter, you can hear the mail coming longe before you can see the mail lady...She'll come to the window, too, and watch the mail lady take our letters...out of the snow-covered mailbox

1996, Rick Bass, “Almost Lake Hibernation”, in The Book of Yaak, page 17:

...such an action might put the mail lady in danger. His first priority was protecting the mail lady.

2003, Richard Barcalow, Marc McLemore, and Daniel Stiles, “Enter, the Mail Lady! 16:41”, in Hell's Ambrosia, page 55:

"That was close," I quip to the mail lady.

2004, Michael Feldman, Something I Said?, page 10:

But after Miss Shriver passed (she had been Lethe's mail lady for thirty years), Vanessa took her place. Not long after becoming our mail lady, she married Bud Crawford, Carrabelle's city attorney.

2007, Connie May Fowler, Remembering Blue: A Novel:


post lady

(informal, chiefly British) A female postal worker.


secondman

The secondman looks back from 'Slim Jim' Class 33 No. 33211 as it trundles through Gravesend station with a permanent way train in 1977. The first wagon's sides are literally bulging at the seams with ballast spoil.

2018, Andy Gibbs, The Southern Region in the 1970s and 1980s, Amberley Publishing →ISBN, page 12, photo caption:

And instead of carrying commuters, the only people on many evening trains between Hatfield and St Albans were the driver and secondman.

2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, page 50:

(rail transport, UK) A driver's assistant on a diesel or electric locomotive.


hop picker

Several parties of hop-pickers joined the train at the intermediate stations, and the guard performed the acrobatic feat of walking along the footboards of the coaches to examine tickets, while the train was in motion.

1947 May and June, “Notes and News: The Kent & East Sussex Railway Today”, in Railway Magazine, page 182:

Immediately beyond Churn Lane the climb begins at 1 in 78, steepening to 1 in 66. Speed soon falls and a number of heavy hop-pickers' specials have come to grief here.

1960 March, H. P. White, “The Hawkhurst branch of the Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 170:

A person employed to pick hops in the hop-picking season.

buanaí leannlus

a person employed to pick hops in the hop-picking season


fishman

From Middle English fisscheman; equivalent to fish + -man.

Without an exception, save ourselves, the boat was occupied by fishmen and fishwomen, returning from effecting their purchases at Billinsgate, and who availed themselves of this new mode of transit to reach the West End, without having the barriers of Fleet-street, the hills of Holborn, or the other localities which have to be traversed to reach from the city to the quarters where they had their business and connection.

1846, “Our Tattler”, in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, page 175:

We arrived in the night, and all were asleep and still. But in the morning, what a Babel of sounds assailed and stunned us! There were fishmen and fishwomen in “schools”—boatmen and boatwomen—sailors, of every nation, “pulling and hauling”—artisans of every description plying the hammer and the axe—all mechanical powers in noisy operation—ponderous wagons of most thundering construction—men, women, and children yelling to the very top of their voices, to outcry each other in selling their wares.

1856, George Foxcroft Haskins, “Chapter V. — Marseilles”, in Travels in England, France, Italy, and Ireland, Boston: Donahoe, Patrick, page 29:

Fishmen and fishwomen, costermongers and other small traders, spit on their “hansel” (the first money they take); and boxers spit on their hands to make them deliver winning blows.

1899, William Thomas Fernie, Animal Simples: Approved for Modern Uses of Cure, page 412:

The butcher, the baker, the greengrocer, the old eggwoman, the vegetable dealer from the country, the fishman, every one who in any way purveyed to my little household, came to lay presents on the sunny engawa.

1907 April, Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, “At Home—Colonel and Mrs. Vladimir von Theill”, in As The Hague Ordains: Journal of a Russian Prisoner’s Wife in Japan, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 303:


general of the air force

general of the air force (plural generals of the air force)

A commissioned military officer of the highest rank in the United States Air Force, NATO grade OF-10,. This rank is currently out of use.


marshal of the RAF

marshal of the RAF (plural marshals of the RAF)

(military) The highest rank in the Royal Air Force, NATO grade OF-10, currently out of use.


dzongpen

Borrowed from Dzongkha རྗོང་དཔོན་ (rjong dpon).

bor+

A leader or official of a district in Bhutan


keymaker

From Middle English kay maker, equivalent to key + maker.


charrer

A worker who chars the insides of barrels in which whisky is to be aged


hand model

A person employed to display or pose their hands, especially in advertisements.


ciliatologist

From ciliatology + -ist or ciliate + -ologist.

(biology) A scientist who specializes in ciliatology.


pattener

From Middle English patyner; equivalent to patten + -er.

The pattenmakers, it seems, used the same material: the king, therefore, steps in between the patteners and the fletchers[…]

1860, John Hewitt, Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: Supplement. Comprising the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries, page 531:

The pattenmakers or patteners still find occupation in Yorkshire.

1882, John Hewitt, Old Yorkshire, volume 3, page 22:

But even though numbers of very small crafts, such as bookbinders, clockmakers, or patteners were not associated with pageants in the 1415 listing[…]

1997, Sarah Rees Jones, The Government of Medieval York: Essays in Commemoration of the 1396 Royal Charter, →ISBN, page 151:


go-go dancer

A dancer who entertains patrons at a nightclub, especially a young and scantily dressed woman.


crime scientist

en-noun

crime scientist (plural crime scientists)

(criminology) Someone who studies crime science, especially someone who does so professionally.


criminal scientist

criminal scientist (plural criminal scientists)

(criminology) Synonym of crime scientist


S/Sgt.

S/Sgt. (plural S/Sgts. or S/Sgt.'s or S/Sgt's)

S/Sgts. (plural)
S/Sgt.'s (plural)
S/Sgt's (plural)

A title added before the name of a staff sergeant.


1/Sgt. (plural 1/Sgts. or 1/Sgt.'s or 1/Sgt's)

sergeant first class
sergeant first class#English

A title added before the name of a sergeant first class.


natsci

(UK, Cambridge University slang) A natural scientist.


fishmongress

VERSES TO A BEAUTIFUL FISHMONGRESS

1890, Henry Lloyd, London: Humorous Readings, page 11:

They have quite ceased to act as saleswomen, and only some twenty or thirty fishmongresses come occasionally to buy.

1900, The Pilot: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature and Learning, volume 2, page 286:

Réjane, the beautiful fishmongress sold silver-grey mackerel, holding them up by the tail in her adorable fingers, a sight that would have ravished Velasquez, and did ravish me.[…]And some of me for the Alhambra, and some of me for the fish market at Granada and the loveliest of fishmongresses.

1942, Henry Dwight Sedgwick, Memoirs of an Epicurean, pages 284, 286:

The inhabitants of Ballymena were the kindest I have ever known, they plied us with everything, but best of all with their goodwill, and I never pass through without seeing Jane McCurry, the fishmongress of the town, who always gives me a cup of tea.

1950, Adrian Carton de Wiart, Happy Odyssey, Pen & Sword, published 2007, reprinted 2011, →ISBN:

‘Fishmongress’ she calls me, as though Father’s trade was aught to be ’shamed of!”

1954, Anya Seton, Katherine, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN:

At the shore, the fish may be packed into jute sacks or doum-palm leaves baskets and taken to the nearest market place for sale to fishmongresses. The fish mongress^([sic]) then puts the fish in whatever container she may have, or just spreads them out on a mat, figure 10.[…]Figure 10. Fishmongress at Market Place, Diré, 1962.

1963, Alexandria Journal of Agricultural Research, pages 28, 30:

Off Grafton St., the statue of the fetching fishmongress Molly Malone is referred to as “the tart with the cart.”

2000, Let’s Go: Ireland, →ISBN, page 117:

Nene Duseisi, the fishmongress, had just explained to her where she could find Ma Akuba: someone who would help her beloved Misi Elza and free her from the cursed Misi Sarith.

2010 [1987], The Cost of Sugar, HopeRoad Publishing, translation of Hoe duur was de suiker by Cynthia McLeod, →ISBN, revised in 1995:


RCEP

(East Asia, trade, law, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Australia, New Zealand) Abbreviation of Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership.

East Asia; trade; Southeast Asia; East Asia; trade; Southeast Asia

(UK, government) Abbreviation of Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.


RCEP

(physiology) Abbreviation of registered clinical exercise physiologist.

continuing education
continuing education#English

(education) Abbreviation of registered continuing education provider.


elotero

A man who runs a Latin American corn on the cob (elote) food cart.


sensitivity reader

sensitivity reader (plural sensitivity readers)

Cultural appropriation is a difficult subject to navigate, because in literature appropriation is full of grey areas. Is the minority character a main or side character? Do they feel tokenistic? Is there a sensitivity reader available?

2016 November 25, Neve Mahoney, “Question your motives when appropriating minority voices”, in Eureka Street:

Her publisher, Harlequin Teen, sent the book out to two “sensitivity readers”, who vetted the manuscript for stereotypes, biases and problematic language.

2018 April 27, Alison Flood, “Vetting for stereotypes: meet publishing's 'sensitivity readers'”, in The Guardian:

A white writer, prominent in New York, warned me that my publisher now demanded “at least three sensitivity readers” and that I would not “be allowed” to object to anything these readers wanted to change or delete.

2022 October 24, Eve Fairbanks, “Why Wasn’t I Canceled?”, in The Atlantic:

A person who reviews a manuscript and advises on any content that may be culturally problematic.


potwasher

A person who washes pots and dishes, especially in a restaurant; a dishwasher.

A machine for washing dishes; a dishwasher.


virtual YouTuber

virtual YouTuber (plural virtual YouTubers)

From Japanese バーチャルYouTuber, from virtual + YouTuber.

corpo VTuber ― virtual YouTuber who is affiliated with a corporation

indie VTuber ― independent virtual YouTuber

An Internet personality (video creator or streamer) who operates using a virtual avatar, as a fictional or fictionalized character.

虛擬主播 /虚拟主播

A YouTuber who acts as a virtual character


boatsteerer

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

(dated, nautical) The person, in a whaleboat, who manned the forward oar and whose task was to harpoon whales


buck general

(US, military slang) A brigadier general.


beach volleyball player

(translation hub) One who plays beach volleyball.


chromatist

(music) A person whose speciality is chromatics.


back-rower

With 17 minutes remaining, Townsend opted to freshen up his pack, bringing on props Oli Kebble and WP Nel and back-rower Gary Graham.

2021 February 6, Graham Bean, “Scotland beat England at Twickenham for the first time in 38 years”, in The Scotsman:

(rugby) A player who plays in the back row of the scrum.


signal lad

Signal lads are employed at the panel-operated boxes to record train times. A small replica of the track diagram with simplified track circuit indications and the general circuit telephone concentrators are incorporated in their desk, as here at Tonbridge.

1962 August, G. M. Kichenside, “Resignalling for the Kent Coast electrification—Phase II”, in Modern Railways, page 113, photo caption:

(rail transport, UK) A young man employed in a signalbox to record the times of trains as they pass through the area served by the signalbox.


Rashtrapati

Transliteration of Hindi राष्ट्रपति (rāṣṭrapti).


works councillor

en-noun

works councillor (plural works councillors)

For example, the works councillor has the right to check on observance of labour law and related legislation by the employer; in particular he has the right to see wage calculation records, and to consult collective agreements […]

1980, Gertraude Mikl-Horke, The Construction Industry in Austria, page 22:


interior minister

interior minister (plural interior ministers)


minister of justice

minister of justice (plural ministers of justice)


closet-keeper

(now historical) a person charged with keeping or maintaining the contents (esp. valuable items) of a closet.


dinner man

Based on dinner lady. This was traditionally a female occupation.

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


câbi

(historical) In the Ottoman Empire, one who collected taxes or revenues.


micrococcologist

A bacteriologist whose speciality is micrococci


criminal prosecutor

criminal prosecutor (plural criminal prosecutors)

criminal prosecution
criminal prosecution

Someone who is occupied with pursuing criminal prosecution.


legal assistant

legal assistant (plural legal assistants)

Someone occupied with legal services in place of a lawyer.


metageometrician

non-Euclidean geometry
non-Euclidean geometry

(mathematics) A geometrician whose speciality is non-Euclidean geometry


obstetrician-gynecologist

The town had only one obstetrician-gynecologist.

(countable, medicine) A physician who is both an obstetrician and a gynecologist.

szülész-nőgyógyász

a physician who is both an obstetrician and a gynecologist


speechie

(Australia, slang) A speech pathologist.


purvoe

[…] not one-third of the work was done under the direction of the Garden Purvoe and Head Malley only, […]

1843, Transactions of the Agri-horticultural Society of Western India, page 2:

[…] and there would be various objections to trusting a native with the purport of such communications, even where some of the baboos, sircars, purvoes, and others of that genus, can converse with sufficient comprehensiveness in English […]

1845, Joachim Hayward Stocqueler, The Hand-book of India, page 219:


rhinoplastician

(surgery) One who carries out a rhinoplasty.


singing girl

She was a stranger in Palembang: she had fled from some one in in the interior, and had lately entered the house of Tumunggung Nora Wangsa; who was patron, also, of another singing girl present, called Sahdeeah.

1856, Walter M. Gibson, The Prison of Weltevreden: And a Glance at the East Indian Archipelago, Sampson Low Son & Company, page 213:

The Guide to the Yoshiwara gives a list of fifty-five singing-girls, besides a host of minor stars. These women are not to be confounded with the courtesans.

1870, “Tales of Old Japan, No. II—The Loves of Gompachi and Komurasaki”, in The Fortnightly Review, volume 14:

A girl is not considered disgraced if, for her parent's sake, she sells herself into the life of a "singing girl", geisha, or plain prostitute.

1943, Clyde B. Camerer, Peter E. Huth, “The Social Evil in Japan”, in United States Naval Medical Bulletin, volume 41:

One was a revolt of the people of Medina, who had publicly withdrawn their allegiance to Yazid, in spite of his attempts to conciliate their leaders, in reaction, we are told, to the caliph's personal unsuitability for his office—charges such as enjoyment of singing girls and playing with a pet monkey are brought against him in the tradition.

2000 July 13, G. R. Hawting, The First Dynasty of Islam: The Umayyad Caliphate, AD 661-750, 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 47:

A young woman of low social status (often enslaved) who performs as a musician and entertainer, especially in Asian societies.


color announcer

color announcer (plural color announcers)

color commentator
color commentator#English


wireperson

wireperson (plural wirepersons or wirepeople)

wirepersons (plural)
wirepeople (plural)

Someone who works with wire; primarily someone who connects electric wiring.


autoanalyst

(psychology) A practitioner of autoanalysis


double E

From having two Es in the initialism, thus doubled up.

electrical engineer
electrical engineer#English

(electrical engineering) Abbreviation of electrical engineer.

Alternative form of EE
Abbreviation of electrical engineer.

electrical engineering
electrical engineering#English

(electrical engineering) Abbreviation of electrical engineering.

Alternative form of EE
Abbreviation of electrical engineering.

(electrical engineering) Abbreviation of degree (diploma) in electrical engineering.


content creator

content creator (plural content creators)

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

(social media) One who creates social media content, especially of a monetizable nature.


colour announcer

colour announcer (plural colour announcers)

Synonym of color commentator Alternative form of color announcer


colour commentator

colour commentator (plural colour commentators)


quinquagenary

/kwɪŋˈkwæd͡ʒəˌnɛɹi/

/ˌkwɪŋkwəˈd͡ʒɛnəɹi/

From Latin quīnquāgēnārius (“containing 50”), either directly or via French quinquagénaire, from Latin quīnquāgēnus (“50 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from quīnquāgintā (“five tens, fifty”). Cognate with quinquagenarian and quingenary.

Synonym of quinquagenarian: Of or related to fiftysomethings.


community manager

community manager (plural community managers)

(video games, business) A person whose job is to be a liaison between a video game's developers and that video game's community.


tapester

From tapestry + -ster. Do not confuse with tapster (“ale-drawer”), which has Middle English spellings including tapester, tapister.


programme-maker

But there are, of course, TV programme-makers who see beyond the easy opportunities to show conflict and false jeopardy.

2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 46:

(television, radio, British spelling) A person responsible for the creation of television or radio programmes.


base chief

chief petty officer
chief petty officer#English

(Canada, military, Royal Canadian Navy) A chief petty officer, the highest ranked warrant officer on a military base.


translatologist

To the translatologist, however, the concept of pragmatics is of utmost importance because it is "texts-in-function" (Schmidt 1973) which are translated—verbal expressions utilized in communication acts.

1987, Gideon Toury, Translation Across Cultures, page 48:

This paper traces in short the history of translation in India from ancient times to modern times and leads into different models adopted by translatologists in India, with a special reference to Hindi.

1997, International Journal of Translation, volume 9, page 109:

Following suit, cognitive translatologists have revised their view on the very object of translation process research [...]

2020, John W. Schwieter, Aline Ferreira, The Handbook of Translation and Cognition, page 290:


full colonel

A colonel, as opposed to the lower rank lieutenant colonel (which is also addressed as colonel).


boxmaker

It is very gratifying to learn that boxmakers in the North are very busy, and there is every prospect of a continuance of good trade.

1919, The Paper Box and Bag Maker, volumes 47-48, page 210:


chainsmith

We could never understand why any man should choose the career of a chainsmith, except, possibly, for the reason that it ran in the family, for a more arduous and unpleasant manner of earning one's living could scarcely be imagined, unless it was the business of moulding permanent-way chairs in an iron foundry.

1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, pages 13–14:


crane operator

(construction) (This entry is a translation hub.)


rotoartist

(film, television, video, special effects) A person who creates masks for frames, to crop in and out backgrounds and objects, frame-by-frame in video and film, for rotoscoping.

video; special effects; video; special effects


Ethiopist

Equivalent to Ethiopia + -ist. Likely a Germanism or Frenchism.

A person; one who is skilled in or professes or practices Ethiopian studies.

etiopista

A person; one who is skilled professes or practices Ethiopian studies


epidermologist

A scientist whose speciality is epidermology.


drungar

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δρουγγάριος (droungários), from Late Latin drungārius, from drungus (“a troop”).

(historical) A kind of military commander in the late Roman and Byzantine Empires, usually commanding roughly a battalion on land or a fleet on the sea.


drayperson

drayperson (plural draypersons or draypeople)

draypersons (plural)
draypeople (plural)


teenologist

“Of course we must also discredit the sociologists, criminologists, teenologists, and all the other 'ologists' that constantly find excuses for people not taking their personal responsibility seriously enough,” Reiffel added, […]

2004, Jonathan Ledwidge, A Mannequin for President:

Briefly Leanne imagined telling her friend Jane that she would quit her job at the high school and come to New York City and join Jane's practice of teenologists.

2012, Meg Wolitzer, The Uncoupling, page 255:

We'd be the best 'teenologists.' With this book, we could dictate our own terms on appropriate adolescent etiquette. Because adults like Ms. Michaels forget what it's like to be a teen, and all the pressure coming at you […]

2018, Christopher Phillips, A Child at Heart:

(rare, informal) An expert on the subject of teenagers and their psychology.


TEFLer

A teacher of English as a foreign language


Keeper of the Privy Seal

Keeper of the Privy Seal (plural Keepers of the Privy Seal)

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


HVAC engineer

An engineer who is specifically trained for or specialized in HVAC.


police commissioner

police commissioner (plural police commissioners)

A senior rank of a member of a police force.


jobsmith

(historical) A blacksmith who performs various work other than shoeing horses, such as the making of agricultural equipment.


fromagier

As I shopped in the market last week—the fromagier asked why I looked so gloomy.

1993, Jacqueline Deval, Reckless Appetites: A Culinary Romance, The Ecco Press, →ISBN, page 41:

Don’t be surprised if the fromagier isn’t too aware of the cheese and honey connection—many aren’t.

2003, Mani Niall, “Desserts”, in Covered in Honey: The Amazing Flavors of Varietal Honey, Rodale Inc., →ISBN, page 157:

The fromagier will guide you through the day’s choices and provide you with an aperitif tasting to pair with your rare-find cheese.

2008, “Manhattan”, in Inside New York 2009, Inside New York, →ISBN, page 208:


store manager

The manager who is directly responsible for a store.


Yankee tunesmith

Yankee tunesmith (plural Yankee tunesmiths)

(music, historical, US) One of a group of self-taught composers active in New England from 1770 until about 1810.


spaewoman

Coordinate term: spaeman


stagewright

From stage + wright (“builder, craftsman”).


scentmaker

[…] he thought the odora canum vis—if the passage may be construed—“the agreeable smell of a dog-kennel” superior to any of the esprits sold and professed to be manufactured by Delcroix, or any other eminent scent-maker.

1846, J. Hewlett, chapter 6, in Great Tom of Oxford, volume 3, London: Colburn, page 238:

[…] she recommends the scentmaker to put each kind of scent up in ounce bottles and label it twenty shillings.

1911, Douglas Sladen, chapter 5, in Oriental Cairo, London: Hurst & Blackett, page 75:

We would arrive and go through the civilities a scentmaker expects, sniffing the latest oil he was compounding, pronouncing it too heavy or too light or too musky, or sometimes, to keep him sweet, praising and buying.

1956, Mary Renault, chapter 26, in The Last of the Wine, New York: Pantheon, page 343:

A person who makes perfumes or other scented products.


red hat

From the red band on the caps they wore.

(UK, military, slang) A senior army officer.


coal merchant

It would seem that the Speedwell was built during the first half of 1830, for the Monmouthshire Merlin of June 12, 1830, said: "Mr. Prothero, one of the most extensive coal merchants in that district, intends hauling his coal to Newport with two engines, preparing for him at the Neath Abbey Iron Works."

1941 June, “Some Early Welsh-Built Engines”, in Railway Magazine, page 247:

Queen Mary of the Iron Road. By Fred C. Bishop. […] This is the life-story of a boy who was determined to become an engine driver, and who lost no time in realising his ambition. A bold plunge from a clerkship in a coal merchant's office carried Fred Bishop, at the age of 14, into the locomotive department of the London & North Western Railway.

1947 January and February, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 62:

(dated) A person who deals in coal, either on a large scale or in a particular locality, where coal was weighed and bagged by the merchant, delivered to households and tipped into a coal bunker.


Charger

(sports) A member of the Los Angeles Chargers.


investigative journalist

investigative journalist (plural investigative journalists)

Emily Wong: Commander Shepard? Excuse me, Commander Shepard!
Emily Wong: I'm Emily Wong. I'm an investigative journalist working here on the Citadel. Could I have a moment of your time?

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:

But in 2012, his career as an investigative journalist in the mainstream media was temporarily ended: he, together with his investigative reporting team and the chief editor of the China Economic Times were dismissed.

2016, Haiyan Wang, The Transformation of Investigative Journalism in China, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 151:

A journalist investigating a single topic of interest, often involving crime or corruption.


surgical technologist

surgical technologist (plural surgical technologists)

surg tech[w:clipped compound|clipped compound]]>

An member of an the operating room team who serves as an assistant to the surgeon.


pansari

(India, historical) A pharmacist; a druggist.


field painter

(art) An artist working in the style of field painting.


dialpainter

Miss Wiley---from the Consumer's League---persuaded me to assist Dr. Martland in testing the dialpainters for radium exposure.

2000, D. W. Gregory, Radium Girls: A Play in Two Acts, Dramatic Publishing, page 100:


goldfielder

A prospector for gold in the goldfields.


gongman

The Gongman who usually is a member of the household of the local leader (chief) is responsible for delivering messages from the traditional leader verbally to elders and community leaders in the locality.

1975, Seminar on Motivation, Information, and Communication for Development in African and Asian Countries, Ibadan, Nigeria, 1-9 July, 1974, page 52:

[…] Africa, where Pratt (1985) remarks that traditional communication channels are 'the gongman, the town crier, the market square and the chief's court'. and corporate communication is practised in both countries.

2009, Richard Dolphin, David Reed, Fundamentals of Corporate Communications, page 147:

A man employed in parts of Africa to disseminate information within a community, usually by means of a gong.


groomling

[…] though it was pitch-dark, and we were obliged to be escorted by grooms and groomlings with candles and lanterns; a very necessary precaution, as the winds blew not more violently without the house than within.

1835, William Beckford, Italy: With Sketches of Spain and Portugal, volume 1, page 13:

Half an hour later the two girls were in the wood near Tangley Manor, gathering wild flowers, while the ponies waited in a sheltered corner, and the groomling in charge slumbered placidly in the bottom of the carriage, with the reins in his hands.

1880, [Mary Elizabeth Braddon], “In Tangley Wood”, in Just as I Am […], volume II, London: John and Robert Maxwell […], →OCLC, page 230:

A little or young groom (“person who looks after horses”).


gagsmith

A Night at the Opera remains the Marx brothers' finest film, a serendipitous sample of the professional gagsmith's craft allied to preordained characters […]

2002 June 28, Simon Louvish, “Simply the best”, in The Guardian:


gemcutter

He's a typical gemcutter, mostly diamonds but some emeralds and the occasional sapphire or ruby.

A lapidarist who cuts gems, usually precious or semiprecious, to make them suitable in size, shape, color and appearance, usually for use in jewellery such as rings or earrings.

(obsolete) A lapidarist who creates hardstone carvings or miniature sculpture from gemstones such as jade.


office drone

In “Re: Your Brains,” Coulton glues together two geek-y tropes, the zombie apocalypse and the office drone, by using the popular interpretation of the zombie trope to comment on office work […]

2019, Thomas M. Kitts, Nick Baxter-Moore, The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Humor, page 1:

(derogatory) a white-collar worker who works a monotonous profession


theow

From Middle English theu, thewe (“servant; one bound in service to another, serf; disciple or servant of God; created being; servant of the devil; (figuratively) servant to sin, wealth, etc.”) [and other forms], from Old English þēow, þēo (“servant; slave”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *þeu (“slave”), from Proto-Germanic *þewaz, *þegwaz (“servant; slave”), from Proto-Indo-European *tekwos (“runner”), from Proto-Indo-European *tekʷ- (“to run; to flow”).
Cognates
* Dutch dienen (“to serve”)
* German dienen (“to serve”)
* Gothic 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐍃 (þius, “bondman, slave; servant”)
* Old English þegn (“servant; minister; vassal”)
* Old High German dio (“unfree”), diu (“servant”)

nb...

theuwe, thiu, thiwe, yeu, (Early Middle English) thue, þeou, þeowe, þeoww, þeu, þeue, þewe, þeww, ðeowæ

þeowe (feminine), ðea, ðeua, ðiow, ðiowa, ðiua, ðiuwa

cog

(historical) A bondman or bondwoman; a slave.


woodwright

From wood + wright. Compare Middle English timber-wrighte, tymbre wryth (“carpenter”, literally “timber-wright”), Old English trēowwyrhta (“carpenter”), see treewright, timberwright.

These legends of many-sided craftsmanship, of gold and silver and armourer's work, the stories of the masters in marble and stone, the weavers and the dyers, the woodwrights, the carvers and the painters, […]

1912, Henry Wilson, On Workmanship: A Lecture, page 20:


formworker

A laborer or workman who makes formwork.


champagne girl

(dated) A waitress in a bar who serves champagne.


entreporneur

A website and a cheap CD-ROM's worth of the usual couplings is enough, as thousands of entreporneurs have demonstrated

1998, The Economist - Volume 348, Issues 8084-8087, page 12:

As a promising new "entreporneur" in the multi-billion-dollar industry that has paraded from the back alleys to the main streets as a legitimate enterprise […]

2000, Charisma and Christian Life, volume 25, numbers 6-11, page 90:

You are an 'entreporneur.' A whore fucks another human or living thing, and gets paid for it. You're just touching yourself, all by yourself, taking requests from invisible strangers.

(informal) An entrepreneur in the business of selling pornography.


lardiner

Inherited from Middle English lardener, from Anglo-Norman lardiner, modification of larder (“larder”) after gardiner (“gardener”). Compare obsolete Scots laidner (“larder”).

A little from hence is Sculton, otherwiſe called Burdos, or Burdelois, which was held by this tenure, that the Lord thereof on the Coronation daie of the Kings of England, ſhould bee chiefe Lardiner.

1610, William Camden, “Northfolke”, in Philémon Holland, transl., Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, →OCLC, page 473:

[…]and therefore that the sergeanty of Easton is to be regarded rather as assistant to that of Scoulton than as partaking of the same rank , that of the chief lardiner of England.

1820, “Book IV”, in Arthur Taylor, The Glory of Regality: An Historical Treatise of the Anointing and Crowning of the Kings and Queens of England, London: Payne and Foss, page 130:

Indeed, the street called Davygate takes its name from the fact that David Lardiner, the king's lardiner in York but also a knight, lived there and held land in the area.

2016 November 11, “Land and Economic Development among the Gentry”, in Hugh M. Thomas, Vassals, Heiresses, Crusaders, and Thugs: The Gentry of Angevin Yorkshire, 1154-1216, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 101:

(now historical) An officer originally charged with overseeing a larder, but who later became a sinecurist.


summer job

As a second-year student at Kharkiv University, I took a summer job as a conductor of the train that ran from Novorossiysk on the Russian Black Sea coast to Kaliningrad in the Baltics - a 48-hour journey via Kharkiv, from where the train originated.

2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 47:

A job done typically by a student only during the summer.


capstanman

Telford constructed the 570-ft. span suspension bridge across the Menai Straits, 100 ft. above high water level. [...] The catenary chains, in four groups of four, are made of Staffordshire iron brought by canal to Chester and thence by steamship; they were erected by ferrying one end across the Straits on a raft and then pulling up with rope-blocks and capstans, with the capstanmen kept in step by music.

1942 April, “Notes and News: The North Wales Coast Route”, in Railway Magazine, page 123:

Someone who helped turn a capstan, or operated a powered capstan.


forest ranger

A person entrusted with protecting and preserving public forested land.

boswagter

a person entrusted with protecting and preserving public forested land


wind farmer

This would clearly put a wind farmer out of business.

1983, ASME Wind Energy Symposium: Papers Presented at ... Annual Energy-Sources Technology Conference and Exhibition, ASME, page 109:

The new turbine will soon have a chance to prove itself during the breezy summer months, when it's expected to show an energy-capture ratio (wind-farmer lingo for operating efficiency) at least 10 percent better than the current generation

1991 July, Popular Science, volume 239, number 1, page 56:

Some, such as Ringkøbing's Landbobank (farmers' bank), have financed so many wind turbines that they've been dubbed the “wind farmers' bank.” Danish wind co-ops vary in size from a single turbine to small wind farms.

The human factor: Skills and support Succeeding as a home wind farmer isn't easy. Wind-electric systems are more difficult to maintain than, say, gardens.

2009, Ian Woofenden, Wind Power For Dummies, page 24:

Any modern‐day wind farmer will tell you that a series of questions must be answered to determine whether a site is suitable for the construction and operation of a wind turbine.

2019, Brandon N. Owens, The Wind Power Story: A Century of Innovation that Reshaped the Global Energy Landscape...:

Someone who owns or manages a wind farm.


surveyor general

en-noun

surveyor general (plural surveyors general or surveyor generals)

surveyors general (plural)
surveyor generals (plural)

An official responsible for government surveying in a specific country or territory.


propman

(theater) A man responsible for looking after the props in a theater


propwoman

(theater) A woman responsible for looking after the props in a theater


covenanted servant

covenanted servant (plural covenanted servants)

(British India) A member of the regular civil service of India.


center-back

(soccer) Alternative spelling of centre-back


numbertaker

From number + taker, or number + take + -er.

Goods Traffic Grades
 #*:: Lad Porter #*:: [...] #*:: Step 2—Porter Grade 1, Goods Shunter Class 4, Shunt Horse Driver, Numbertaker, Traffic Timekeeper, etc. #*:: [...]

1942 July-August, T. F. Cameron, “How the Staff of a Railway is Recruited”, in Railway Magazine, page 205:

A person employed to note down numbers, in particular on railways where fleet numbers of wagons were recorded.


azmari

An entertainer who sings and plays traditional string instruments of the Ethiopian highlands.


autoglazier

Her husband Stuart, an autoglazier from South Morang, had been dealt a pay cut.

2021 January 4, “Exiled West Coast Eagles star Willie Rioli ‘nice and safe’ in Tiwi Islands”, in The West Australian:

(Australia) Someone who repairs or installs windscreens in vehicles


flour-monger

Compare the Middle English surname Flurmongester.

[…]I heard a ruffian behind saying, “E un farinajuolo” (“He is a meal-monger,” or rather “flour-monger”).

1898, “Early Life of John Blackwood”, in Annals of a Oublishing House: John Blackwood, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 11:

Finally, the department of agriculture maintains practically a year-round surveillance to keep the bread-flour mongers from their greedy grabs.

1949 November 24, Holmes Alexander, “War Is On Against Bread Mongers”, in Fort Myers News-Press, Fort Myers, Fla., page 4:

Bishop Hill — said to be America’s first planned community, in the modern sense — was founded in 1846 when nearly 2,000 farmers and laborers sold their homes in central Sweden, pooled their resources and left for an uncertain future on the Illinois Erik Jansson, an itinerant flour-monger who regarded himself as chosen by God to convert the world.

1969 November 20, “A Swedish Emigration Is Recalled”, in The Austin Statesman, volume 99, number 81, Austin, Tex., page 5:

Has Master Jack forgiven you for preferring a short, stoop-shouldered flour[-]monger with hands like boiled puddings to his tall, elegant, noble self, whose white hands have never seen a day’s work?

1997, Robin McKinley, Rose Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, published 1998, →ISBN, page 163:

Tradesmen in the Liao-chai are of all types and include salt merchants, cloth merchants, oil chandlers, grain dealers, rug and fur traders, innkeepers, flour mongers, owners of drugstores, grocers, tavern owners, vintners, pawnbrokers, and peddlers and hawkers selling all sorts of daily necessities.

1998, Chun-shu Chang, Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang, “Racial Tension, Socioeconomic Conditions, and Country Life”, in Redefining History: Ghosts, Spirits, and Human Society in P’u Sung-ling’s World, 1640–1715, Ann Arbor, Mich.: the University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 142:

The flour merchant smiled to himself. “This Birbal is a talkative halfwit,” he thought. “He is buying time because he knows that oilman cannot prove that the money pouch is not mine.” But, even as he had these thoughts, the flour-monger felt the cold stare of Birbal upon him.

2001, James Moseley, “Birbal and the Seller of Oil”, in The Ninth Jewel of the Mughal Crown: The Birbal Tales from the Oral Traditions of India, Summerwind Marketing, Inc., →ISBN, page 101:

At night, while the flour-monger was sleeping, the cone-monger jumped to his feet and thought to himself, “I’ll take his sack instead of mine; why, he won’t know.” And he took the sack of ashes onto his shoulder and lit out for home.[…]she brought a tub into which he poured, in great hope … pine cones. “Woman, bring a tub!” the second fellow also called when he was arriving at home. “I’m bringing you flour.”[…]But out poured ashes.

2001, Pavol Dobšinský, collector, David L. Cooper, editor and translator, “Two Rascals”, in Traditional Slovak Folktales, Armonk, N.Y., London: M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN:

“You first,” he said sharply, pointing at the flour-monger.

2006, Annette C. Alder, The Knight Sorcerers: Magic Blades, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, page 28:


ironmongress

The younger Lady Suffolk only spread a small quantity made into ointment on a bank bill of 70,000 pound, and it has made her first love Lord Falkland marry her: Sir Th. Robinson who intended to outlive his Barbadoes ironmongress,¹³ is dying for love of the same Countess.[…]13. Sarah Booth, m. (1) Samuel Salmon; m. (2) (between 1742–7, when he was Gov. of Barbadoes) Sir Thomas Robinson, Bt, of Rokeby. ‘An ironmonger’s widow, who gave him 10,000l. to be a lady, but would not follow him to England’ (HW’s notes to Maty’s Memoirs . . . of . . . Chesterfield, at end of Philobiblon Society, Miscellanies 1867–8, xi. 71; gec, Baronetage; Emily J. Climenson, Elizabeth Montagu, 1906, ii. 276).

1752 July 30, Gregory Whitewash, edited by W. S. Lewis and Ralph S. Brown, Jr, Horace Walpole’s Correspondence with George Montagu (The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole’s Corerspondence; volume nine), volume I, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press, published 1941, pages 139–140:

Then the portrait of Francis’s mistress is called La belle Furoniere, instead of Ferronière (the beautiful Ironmongress).

1836 January 2, “A Treatise on Painting. By Leonardo Da Vinci. Translated by J. F. Rigaud. With a Life of the Author. By J. W. Brown, Esq. Nicholls & Son.”, in The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, number 427, London, page 10:

Our home was over an ironmonger’s shop, the ironmongress condescending to let us three rooms. She was a very grand lady was this ironmongress, very grand indeed; her flounces and her furbelows were wonderful to behold!

1859, “Marion”, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume XXVI, Edinburgh: Sutherland & Knox; London: Partridge & Co., chapter IV, page 139:

I understand; ah, if it were only in pursuit of some little ironmongress in the Pont Neuf, or the pretty widow of the Rue Saint Augustine, it might be worth your while.

[1878], Alexandre Dumas, “His Excellency the Duc d’Orleans”, in The Regent’s Daughter. An Historical Romance., London: George Routledge and Sons, →OCLC, page 86:

The English Ironmongress / The war has done more to push English women to the front in the world’s great activities, than Mrs. Pankhurst and her associates in the suffrage campaign of “frightfulness” were able to do in all their years of hair-pulling and arson.

1916, Hardware Dealers’ Magazine, page 754:

I often have the same dream: you are an ironmonger, I am your wife, an ironmongress …

1970, René de Obaldia, Plays, volume 2, London: Calder and Boyars, →ISBN, page 112:

The narrator is sensitive to country smells as well as to scenery, and to drunkenness, batterings, and the domestic tensions of local peasant households – encountered through friendships with the local poacher, Batt Ryan, and with the [?] village ironmongress.

1985 March 8, Toby Fitton, “Local pride”, in The Times Literary Supplement, number 4,275, page 266:


costermongress

The educated Englishman and the educated Hindoo have a more glorious work before them than the interchange of “niggers” and “parallelograms,” like Daniel O’ Connell and the costermongress!

1861 February, “The Reconciliation”, in Mookerjee’s Magazine, volume I, number I, Calcutta, page 74:

They were only a penny a pint, and the coarse big hand of the costermongress tossed a pile headlong and tail-long into a paper bag.

1892 June 18, Frank Yeigh, “Bread and Butter”, in Toronto Saturday Night, volume 5, number 30 (whole 238), Toronto, Ont., page 7:

The dilapidated costermongress with the worried look on her face and the “Football Evening News” in her hand, walked up to the meat-stall, and began turning over the stray pieces of meat labelled, “All choice.” “Wodjer want nah, missus?” inquired the butcher. “Piece er beef,” responded the lady. “When you was ’agglin’ for the mutton ’arf an hour ago,” objected the man of meat, “yer told me as ’ow yer couldn’t eat beef!” “No more I carn’t!” snapped the costermongress. “But I reckon I shall want a bit all the same to put on a black eye. My ’usband went ’an blacked Chelsea this mornin’, an’ I see by the piper they lorst!”

1910 December 27, “Preparing for the Fray”, in The Evening Record, volume 21, number 230, Windsor, Ont., page 4:

Mr. Tuppy, who long has wanted to do something to live down his namesake’s inactivtion^([sic]), and he was put into an arm[-]chair, where he looked like a feather boa one minute and a costermongress’ discarded hat the next.

1926 January 3, “An Arlen Character”, in Sunday State Journal, Lincoln, Neb., two, page eight:


fish mongress

The venerable fish mongress deposed that the law student was in the practice of occasionally taking oysters at her shop;

1826 January 24, Vermont Gazette, volume XVII, number 8 (whole 840), Bennington, Vt.: Darius Clark:

The fish mongress then puts the fish in whatever container she may have, or just spreads them out on a mat, figure 10.

1963, Alexandria Journal of Agricultural Research, page 28:

Laura Foley Ramsden is a fourth-generation fish mongress and owner of Foley Fish.

2012, Robert Garlough, Angus Campbell, Modern Garde Manger: A Global Perspective, 2nd edition, Delmar, page 382:


fish-mongress

Simple Sandford took his eel / To an old fish-mongress: / “ ’Tis is no conger-eel,” she said, / “But it is a Congress.”

1866 October, “A Nursery Rhyme on the Great Eel, Fished up in the See of Worcester”, in The Town Crier: Or, Jacob’s Belles Lettres, volume VI, number 3, Birmingham, page 7:

Good Mère Lollier wished to make a fish-mongress of her; mademoiselle spurned the proposal. What! she, a genius, a beauty, a divine voice, waste her life on horrid, ill-smelling fish?

1877 May, “Nanette. A Legend of the Days of Louis XV.”, in The Catholic World. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science., volume XXV, number 146, New York, N.Y.: The Catholic Publication Society Company, chapter I, page 271:

This latter class at the time possessed the delicacy of the Hamburg fish-mongress of to-day.

1916, Heinrich Böhmer, “Luther as a Scholar and Author”, in Carl F. Huth, Jr., transl., Luther in Light of Recent Research, New York, N.Y.: The Christian Herald, page 195:


cheesemongeress

My lady in a way, because my Lord Doldrum was seen speaking in Hyde Park to Miss Stilton, the rich cheesemongeress’s daughter.

1843, “Jemima’s Journal of Fashionable Life and Conversation”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XIII, London: Richard Bentley, page 342:

But, as the cheesemongeress had by this time so far recovered her forces as to be able to undertake the charge of her own offspring, and as the young cheesemonger is at the present moment a vigorous and thriving student at a Clapham boarding school, with every prospect of succeeding honourably to his father’s business, it may be assumed that Miss Hipswidge had fulfilled this early portion of her Curtius-like destiny with perfect satisfaction.

1860, Charles H[enry] Bennett, Robert B[arnabas] Brough, “Memoir of Miss Juliana Hipswidge. The Infant Prodigy.”, in Shadow and Substance, London: W. Kent & Co. (late D. Bogue), pages 29–30 (1872 edition):

For Mrs. Jones the draper’s wife to be able to boast that she bought a silk pincushion at twenty times its value from the Countess of Belminster—for Mrs. Smith the cheesemongeress to be able to show a photograph of Lady Eleanor Gore-Layton, signed with her own hand, are occasions that do not occur twice in a lifetime.

1880 November, Mrs. G[eorge] W[illiam] Godfrey [i.e., Mary Rose Godfrey], “A Little Bohemian”, in Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, the sixtieth volume, London: Richard Bentley & Son; New York, N.Y.: Willmer and Rogers; Paris: Galignani, page 377:

Paris. English Cheesemongeress: “How horrid, John; here is a fly in the soup.” Cheesemonger: “Hush, Maria, don’t expose your ignorance; the bill of fare is in French, and may be I ordered fly soup for what I know.”

1893 July 15, “Facetiæ”, in The London Reader of Literature, Science, Art, and General Information, volume LXI, number 1576, page 310:


cheesemongress

How did I now regret that I had deserted my pretty and well provided cheesemongress!

1801 October 5, John, Lord Campbell, “January 1800—August 1802”, in Mary Scarlett Hardcastle, editor, Life of John, Lord Campbell, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain: Consisting of a Selection from his Autobiography, Diary, and Letters, volume I, London: John Murray, published 1881, page 75:

My lady in a way, because my Lord Doldrum was seen speaking in Hyde Park to Miss Stilton, the rich cheesemongress’s daughter.

1845, John Fisher Murray, “Jemima’s Journal of Fashionable Life and Conversation”, in The World of London, volume II, London: Richard Bentley, page 252:

Had she ever dreamed she would grow up to be a spinster cheesemongress?

2017, Peni Jo Renner, Raid on Cochecho (book three of The Puritan Chronicles), Lulu, →ISBN:

“The mold is what gives the cheese its character,” says Tonda Corrente, Orlando’s foremost cheesemongress (yes, I made that up) and proprietor of La Femme du Fromage.

2020 October 8, Amy Drew Thompson, “Don’t break the mold: Enjoying moldy cheese, for some, is a process — an acquired taste”, in Orlando Sentinel, page D1 (online):


kitter

I am looking for kitters that do twins like the C47 DC3 B25 etc///

1996 September 24, Melanie A. Sisneros, “Looking for kitters that do twins!!”, in rec.models.rc.air (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-21:

Am still sitting on enough stuff to make a lot of other stuff for this NG if the interest ever surfaces. But....I *really* need those of you who got my original kits to please fly them and post the results here. Any small kit maker NEEDS word of mouth in a niche market such as this....just ask Rob or Doug! Even negative responces^([sic]) are helpful as they enable the kitter to see what hes^([sic]) doing wrong and correct it.

1999 September 7, Mike Lee Kochel, “Whatever happened to Novus?”, in rec.models.rockets (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-21:

I don't do kits very often, but do have a couple in my stash that really appealed. I have never run out of thread though. Funnily enough I think I am doing my first kit in absolute ages and I think it may very well be by the kitter you are talking about.

2001 October 9, Debbie Wright, “enough thread in kits?”, in rec.crafts.textiles.needlework (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-21:

Except that every other f-16 kitter--including garage outfits like Hasegawa--manage to mold it in one piece, no line.

2007 May 12, tomcervo, “Tamiya F-16: wth?”, in rec.models.scale (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-21:

A person or company that manufactures kits.


director of music

director of music (plural directors of music)

One who is in charge of any musical aspects of an institution's function; often a choir.

musical director
musical director#English


Informator Choristarum

Informator Choristarum (plural not attested)

(Oxford University) The director of music at Magdalen College, Oxford.


Plethon

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek Πλήθων (Plḗthōn), adopted by Plethon as a nickname or cognomen from Attic Greek πλῆθος (plêthos, “multitude, great number”) as a classicizing substitute for his surname Γεμιστός (Gemistós), from γεμιστός (gemistós, “filled, stuffed”). The particular form may have been chosen to mirror Πλάτων (Plátōn, “Plato”).

der

Georgios Gemistos Plethon (c. 1355–1453), a Byzantine Greek philosopher.


clubbie

"When he died, his baseball cap was given to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. He is the only clubbie to be honored with a display there."

1977, Maj. Ed Logan, quotee, Airman, page 38:

(US, baseball, informal) A clubhouse manager.

"[…] But there are some stadiums where the clubhouse guys don't do a very good job, but there are clubbies that do a really outstanding job. […]"

2019 July 10, John Cangelosi, K.P. Wee, John Cangelosi: The Improbable Baseball Journey of the Undersized Kid from Nowhere to World Series Champion, Riverdale Avenue Books LLC, →ISBN:

(US, baseball, informal) A clubhouse attendant.


sales clerk

A person employed by a store to sell merchandise, assist customers in finding merchandise, and accept payment.


McWorker

What do you want? The McWorker to have 7 roommates to lower YOUR property values playing like a Mexican? Basically, conservatives have something in common with welfare recipients: You want something for nothing. You want your workers to live "properly" but are unwilling to pay them the money needed to do so. You want your McWorkers to "play by the rules" even though they can't afford it, and like hell if you're going to offer the needed paycheck. You want to remove mass transport, to enforce car ownership, yet bitch about uninsured driver. Do any of you conservatives expect McWorkers to live in cardboard boxes and commute by flapping their arms so they can fly in from their neighbourhood to work for you?
Get real.

1996 March 28, Ned Kelly, “Why the minimum wage is a bad idea...”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-09:

What I want is simple : I want the McWorker to either live on the wages paid or find another job. This approach works for hundred of millions of people in America, and it's one of the fundamental ways the market self-regulates wages.

1996 March 29, Michael Zarlenga, “Why the minimum wage is a bad idea...”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-09:

The previous poster is exactly correct. The McWorker should never expect to prosper with such a job. If McDonalds^([sic]) is the height of his ambition then he has chosen his own poverty level.
I do not by this mean that someone should not choose to be a McWorker if that met his current needs. But to clain that the system should change is decision to suit his needs is preposterous.

1996 April 10, Stephen M Dodd, “Why the minimum wage is a bad idea...”, in alt.politics.libertarian (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-09:

About a week ago I went to McDonalds^([sic]) when the sales rep (McWorker) tells me I'm not suppose to be there. I ignore her ramblings and ate my meal, but the whole time she was eyeing me, like I was a criminal. Then I came went to McDonalds^([sic]) yestarday^([sic]) and I saw the McWorker (Lucy) talking to another McWorker and when I get to the front of the line they refuse to serve me.

1997 January 23, Robert Mahoney, “McDonalds^([sic]) - what the hell?”, in alt.bitterness (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-09:

huh???
"Used govt. to increase OUR property values?" No wonder you are a McWorker...you don't know what the hell you're talking about.
Put down your crack pipe. Work harder. Quit bitching.

2001 November 17, S. L. Richardson, “Tax on litigation?”, in misc.taxes (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-09:

(colloquial, sometimes derogatory) An employee at a low-paying, entry-level job.


chromoluminarist

of, pertaining to, or in the style of chromoluminarism


colonel general

en-noun

colonel general (plural colonel generals)

(military) A general officer's rank in some nations' militaries, corresponding to the rank of either a lieutenant general or full general in the United States rank system.

գեներալ-գնդապետ

a general officer's rank in some nations' militaries


garmentworker

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

I had met Rose Topercer in the garment industry. Rose Topercer was a garmentworker the same as I was. […] When I first joined the Communist Party in 1957, I was assigned to the Needle Club, being a needleworker.

1965, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities, Communist Activities in the Chicago, Illinois Area: Hearings..., page 334:


mall cop

(informal) A security guard employed to provide security at a shopping mall.


traquero

Borrowed from Spanish traquero, from traque + -ero.

(US, historical) A male Mexican-American railroad track worker.


ager/dyer

(television) One whose profession is distressing a costume to make it look aged.


deskperson

deskperson (plural deskpersons or deskpeople)

deskpersons (plural)
deskpeople (plural)


Scrum master

Where it cannot do this, the Scrum Master takes over the corresponding task. • The Scrum master is responsible for ensuring that Scrum is understood and used. To do so, he informs both the Scrum team and the organization and builds on[…]

2020 December 29, Markus Marfurt, Pocket guide to the Professional Scrum Master Certification (PSM 1), BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 34:

Because organizations tend to try to implement Scrum without seeing the value of a Scrum Master, often Scrum is blamed for not working. Notice that the Scrum Master is described as a servant first and a leader second, not a manager,[…]

2018 February 13, PMI-ACP Project Management Institute Agile Certified Practitioner Exam Study Guide, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 29:

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) In the Scrum framework, a facilitator of a developer team, who is accountable for removing impediments to the ability of the team to deliver the product goals and deliverables.


product owner

(software engineering) In the Scrum framework, the manager of the product backlog, responsible for maximizing the value of the product.


PNGTuber

A YouTube personality who uses stylized static images edited onto their videos as a substitute for a facecam.


bill discounter

bill discounter (plural bill discounters)

Nor did he trouble his borrowers with abstract calculations of figures, or references to ready-reckoners; his simple rule of interest being all comprised in the one golden sentence, ‘two-pence for every half-penny,’ which greatly simplified the accounts, and which, as a familiar precept, more easily acquired and retained in the memory than any known rule of arithmetic, cannot be too strongly recommended to the notice of capitalists, both large and small, and more especially of money-brokers and bill-discounters.

1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:


chimney sweeper

chimney sweeper (plural chimney sweepers)


treewright

From Middle English *tre-wrighte, from Old English trēowwyrhta (“wood-worker, carpenter”), equivalent to tree + wright.

inh

The work of the treewright or structural woodworker differed from that of the later medieval carpenter, in the reliance on building by eye, the controlled splitting of timber (rather that sawing), and reliance on unmeasured joints.

2020, Alan Lane, Mark Redknap, Llangorse Crannog:

Tarkyn hesitated, the cultural violation of taking outsiders uninvited among treewrights warring with his wish to make use of these shamans' skills.

2022, Jennifer Ealey, The Dark Amulet Collection:

(rare, historical, archaic or literary) A worker of wood, carpenter, joiner.


timberwright

From Middle English timber-wrighte, tymbre wryth, equivalent to timber + wright.

A worker in wood, especially timber or lumber.


apneist

Borrowed from French apnéiste, Italian apneista, or Spanish apneísta. Equivalent to apnea + -ist.

These "no-limits" free dives are basically variable-weight dives, where the apneist descends pulled by a sliding weight, and ascends by inflating some air balloon.

1994 May 5, Olivier Devuns, “DEEP free-diver dies”, in rec.scuba (Usenet), retrieved 2022-09-21:

3 Suplementos alimenticios para un apneista::
1.- Antioxidantes
2.- Vitaminas A,C,E
3.- Probióticos
3 Food supplements for an apneist:
1.- Antioxidants
2.- Vitamins A, C, E
3.- Probiotics

2020 January 23, fridalemus, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-09-21:

(non-native speakers' English) A free-diver.


castlewright

Once afloat, the galley was handed over to the castlewrights and hurdisers or bulwark-makers; these tradesmen are not so named in the accounts, but may be found elsewhere.

2017, Susan Rose, Medieval Ships and Warfare:

(rare, historical or archaic) One who builds or makes repairs to a castle; a castlebuilder.


intimacy coordinator

en-noun

intimacy coordinator (plural intimacy coordinators)

The issue of intimacy coordinators on George RR Martin-related TV series has recently generated headlines. Sean Bean, who played Ned Stark on Game of Thrones, told the Times that he thought they “spoil the spontaneity”, claiming that “the natural way lovers behave would be ruined” if you had “somebody saying: ‘Do this, put your hands there, while you touch his thing.’”

2022 September 14, Alexi Duggins, “Thirty-year age gap left House of the Dragon star ‘scared’ ahead of sex scenes”, in The Guardian:

Cast opposite me was Josh McGuire, who was in my year at drama school. I’ve known him for years, so those sex scenes were weird. I was going “Mate, you’re about to see me naked.” But we had an amazing intimacy coordinator. That was the first time I’d worked with one. I cannot believe they used to let actors just get on with that stuff!

2023 August 13, Michael Hogan, quoting Susan Wokoma, “Actor Susan Wokoma: ‘We all want to be married to Emma Thompson, don’t we?’”, in The Observer:

Back then—only seven years ago, and after #MeToo—there was still widespread industry scepticism about the role of intimacy coordinators, says McAlpine.

2024 January 30, Elle Hunt, “‘With orgasm people strive for oblivion’: Poor Things’ intimacy coordinator on consent, orgies and Emma Stone”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(film, television) A member of a film crew who ensures the well-being of actors who participate in sex scenes or other intimate scenes.


touristic guide

touristic guide (plural touristic guides)

Independently borrowed from French guide touristique, Italian guida turistica, and Spanish guía turístico.

We give any touristic service in Madrid. Information, hotel reservations, privete^([sic]) touristic guide, holiday planning etc etc.

2001 April 8, ALFONSO MUÑOZ, “accomodation^([sic]) in Madrid? (Spain)”, in alt.hotel666 (Usenet), retrieved 2022-09-24:

(non-native speakers' English) A tour guide.


redactor-in-chief

As every necrolover noticed, neither redactor of the Necroletter had had the time to do anything necrophiliac recently. So we're looking for redactors for it, and / or new redactors-in-chief for the Giovanni, Harbinger of Souls, Samedi and Nagaraja newsletters.

2004 November 11, Orpheus, “Throwing the Necro Gauntlet”, in rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad (Usenet), retrieved 2022-09-31:

(non-native speakers' English) An editor-in-chief.


booking lad

This will provide a permanent automatic record of all train movements in the area of each box and eliminate the manual recording at present done by booking lads.

1964 November, “The Electrification of BR: 5 The Southern's Bournemouth scheme”, in Modern Railways, page 320:

(rail transport, dated, British) A young male employee in a signal box who records the movement of trains past the box.


payload specialist

payload specialist (plural payload specialists)

(astronautics) an astronaut selected and trained for specific space flights, usually responsible for handling complex equipment onboard and conducting experiments and researches


Panini

Aṣṭādhyāyī Aṣṭādhyāyī

An ancient Indian grammarian known for codifying what came to be known as the Sanskrit language in his work the Aṣṭādhyāyī.


boatswain's mate

boatswain's mate (plural boatswain's mates)

A petty officer assisting the boatswain aboard ship.


bridge-builder

A longtime advocate for racial and social justice with a degree from Virginia Commonwealth University, Walker, 40, got into politics at the urging of Edwards, an African American woman widely praised as a bridge-builder between the city’s haves and have-nots.

2021 April 5, Laura Vozzella, “Charlottesville mayor says graphic poem illustrates Black experience in city”, in The Washington Post:

(idiomatic) A person who establishes friendly relations between parties.


vietnamist

A student or expert in Vietnamese studies.

Vietnamist

a student, or expert in Vietnamese studies


engine cleaner

Driver Langdale entered the service of the L.N.W.R. as an engine cleaner at Camden on April 25, 1898, at the age of 17, and has been stationed in the London area ever since.

1943 September and October, “Top Link Drivers”, in Railway Magazine, page 293:

(rail transport, dated, British) An employee who cleans railway locomotives, especially steam locomotives in the days of steam.


comptometrist

Born in nearby Hayes to Violet Haxell, a comptometrist, and John Coventry, a mechanic, he attended Hayes grammar school.

2019 June 18, David McVittie, “Steve Coventry obituary”, in The Guardian:


absolute monarch

absolute monarch (plural absolute monarchs)

He maintained that an absolute monarch could extend his credit more advantageously, and could obtain money at lower rates of interest, than a prince with limited authority.

1887, Andrew McFarland Davis, An Historical Study of Law’s System, page 17:


office girl

From office + girl, as a female equivalent to office boy.

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


boy group

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Coordinate term: girl group

Well, 2017 must have been a very happy year for k-pop fans because so many rookie boy groups debuted in the year.

2018, UK Jung, BTS: The K-pop Pioneer, →ISBN:


sleever

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A vertical bar, elliptical in cross section and tapered towards the end, used to shape the sleeve of a garment.


health visitor

(chiefly UK, healthcare) A healthcare professional engaged in offering public health advice to people in their homes.


research assistant

research assistant (plural research assistants)

I am a research assistant for a cryoscience consortium and my chief duty is to conduct reviews of current scholarship on Antarctic ice movement.

During this period the research assistant made a detailed examination of all course material, and then applied the following concept analysis procedures to the course content through a series of interviews with the professor.

1983, Janet G. Donald, “Knowledge Structures: Methods for Exploring Course Content”, in The Journal of Higher Education, volume 54, number 1, →DOI, page 32:

A person who assists a researcher, often on a contractual basis, with research in a commercial, academic, or private setting.


cytotech

Coordinate term: histotech

(medicine) Clipping of cytotechnologist or cytotechnician.


histotech

Coordinate term: cytotech

(medicine) Clipping of histotechnologist or histotechnician.


chief technology officer

chief technology officer (plural chief technology officers)

Audio (US)

chief executive officer
chief executive officer

An executive responsible for the technological development and often the overall technical infrastructure of the products of a business, typically directly accountable to the chief executive officer or the board.

首席技術官 /首席技术官

executive responsible for technological development


whalesman

The old whalesman was not long aboard before getting confirmed in his conjecture that the ship was the same whose boats had harpooned and “drogued” the cachalot', the carcass of which had been encountered by the Catamaran.

1865, Mayne Reid, The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea, page 363:

Take heed young whalesmen and listen to my word.

2011, Frank Rogers, The God of Shattered Glass, page 224:

That's the distinction your heroic whalesman made about us fishermen, just because he thought the whale's brain enlightened the world while we brayed like asses about the hard life we led. So I say a whalesman is to a fisherman as a gold-digger is to a quarryman.


real estate agent

real estate agent (plural real estate agents)

(US, Canada, Australia, Philippines) An individual or company that acts in the sale, lease or maintenance of land, property, real estate, etc. for another.


CrossFitter

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Despite the inherent risks of hundreds of thousands of people dabbling in Olympic weight-lifting techniques at their local strip malls, CrossFitters seem utterly dedicated to their hard-core workouts.

2014 October 14, Heather Havrilesky, “Why Are Americans So Fascinated With Extreme Fitness?”, in The New York Times Magazine:

(exercise) A person who participates in a CrossFit fitness regimen.


industrial designer

industrial designer (plural industrial designers)

Someone who specializes in industrial design.


intelligence officer

intelligence officer (plural intelligence officers)

An employee of an organization who collects, compiles or analyzes information which is of use to that organization.


silverworker

A person employed to manufacture and shape silver.


paternosterer

Learned borrowing from Middle English paternostrer, equivalent to paternoster + -er.

lbor

(Christianity, historical) A maker of rosary beads.


soap boy

(historical) A young male assistant at a men's barbershop, typically tasked with rubbing shaving soap into men's beards.


palliativist

This small team formed the background for pediatric palliative care in Poland, not only locally, but they also aroused both professional (meaning among adult palliativists, pediatric oncologists and pediatricians in general) and public awareness.

2012, Marek W. Karwacki, “Pediatric Palliative Care in Poland”, in Caprice Knapp, Vanessa Madden, Susan Fowler-Kerry, editors, Pediatric Palliative Care: Global Perspectives, Dordrecht: Springer Science+Business Media, →ISBN, page 258:

(medicine, rare) A physician who specializes in palliative care.


tackleman

The man who operates a tackle (mechanical device).


prompt engineer

en-noun

prompt engineer (plural prompt engineers)

The primary role of an AI specialist will require linguistic skills to show, not just tell, the GPT-3 engines how to accomplish a task. Showing, for example, involves working on the context of the input. This new task is named prompt engineering. A prompt engineer has quite a future in AI!

2022 March, Denis Rothman, Antonio Gulli, Transformers for Natural Language Processing, Packt Publishing, page 17:

An online marketplace called Promptbase has already sprung up, where prompt engineers can sell their carefully crafted instructions for image-generation tools such as Midjourney.

2022 December 13, Tim Bradshaw, “Is becoming a ‘prompt engineer’ the way to save your job from AI?”, in Financial Times, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-23:

Some pundits are proclaiming that we will need to train humans in how to write good prompts, for which they will have the vaunted title of a prompt designer or prompt engineer.

2022 December 29, Lance Eliot, “Twenty-Five Eye-Opening 2023 Predictions About Generative AI And ChatGPT Including A Splash Of AI Ethics And AI Law Tossed In”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-23:

With each request, [Riley] Goodside said, the prompt engineer should be instilling in the AI a kind of "persona" — a specific character capable of winnowing down hundreds of billions of potential solutions and identifying the right response.

2023 February 25, Drew Harwell, “Prompt engineers can make ChatGPT and Bing AI do what you want”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-24:

[Simon] Willison spoke with Day 6 guest host Peter Armstrong about whether skepticism is warranted over how much control prompt engineers have — and whether it's a real science, or just learned intuition.

2023 March 24, Paul Hantiuk, “These engineers are being hired to get the most out of AI tools without coding”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 2023-03-25:

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(artificial intelligence, technology, neologism) Someone who designs prompts to be given to an artificial intelligence.