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weatherman

Today it means: A person, especially a male one, who reports the weather conditions or forecasts. Full definition →

Middle English man ← Old English mann ← Proto-West Germanic *mann

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weatherman · noun¹

Englishweather
Proto-Indo-European*mon-
Proto-Germanic*mann-
Proto-West Germanic*mann
Old Englishmann
Middle Englishman
English todayweatherman

From weather + -man.

Weatherman · noun²

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

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