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glueman en · NOUN

Etymology

From glue + -man.

Meanings

1. (rare) A man who manufactures or uses glue.
   • Your pruned cheeks twitched / When we counted the coins / Using your still fingers to separate / The shiny from the copper / Which the glueman paid for the horse. 1986, The DeKalb Literary Arts Journal, volumes 19-20, page 27:
   • [H]e had despatched a brief note to Miss Darby by the omnipresent youngster Glue, — runner of errands, and mender of broken furniture by aid of effective glue-pot […] Miss Darby was just about starting off by herself when the young glueman arrived with Tom's note. 1878, Mark Sibley Severance, Hammersmith: His Harvard Days, page 276:
   • They find the village of Chillingbourne being terrorised by the 'glueman', a nocturnal figure who pours glue into the hair of girls consorting with servicemen. 1998, James Chapman, The British at War: Cinema, State and Propaganda, 1939-45, page 240:

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