Etymology

wattman

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Today it means: A French tram driver. Full definition →

French wattman
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  1. French · borrowed fromwattman
  2. English todaywattman

Borrowed from French wattman, a pseudo-anglicism derived from watt + -man.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.