boothman

[人名] [北方英格兰人姓氏] 布思曼 Booth的变体

词形变化

boothmen 复数 boothmen

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    One who mans a booth, such as at a fair or (historically) a Thing.

    罕用
  2. 2.

    A corn merchant, especially one in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

    古体 方言
  3. 3.

    A projectionist at a movie theater.

词源

From booth + -man. Cognate with Scots buthman (“a shop-keeper”). In some cases, such as translations of Norse sagas, use of the word (to mean "one who mans a booth") was probably reinforced by the cognate Old Norse búðarmaðr (Icelandic búðarmaður).

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