Meanings
dustman1
plural dustmen
- UKA person employed to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.
Oh, my old man's a dustman He wears a dustman’s hat He wears cor-blimey trousers And he lives in a council flat.
1960, Lonnie Donegan, My Old Man's A DustmanSynonyms: bin man, garbage collector, garbage man, garbo, refuse collector, sanitation engineer, trashman, ashman
Dustman2
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA person employed to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna man employed to collect and dispose of refuse
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
dustman · noun
From dust + -man, as household refuse previously consisted largely of ashes (dust) from domestic fires.
Full word history & related roots →Dustman · proper noun
- GermanDustmann
- EnglishDustman
Variant spelling of Northern German Dustmann.
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Anagrams
Cite this entry
dustman. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dustman
“dustman.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dustman. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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