englishman

plural englishmen

1. obsoleteObsolete form of Englishman.

   In Chꝛiſt there is nether frẽch ner engliſh: but the frenchman is the engliſhmans awne ſelfe / and the engliſh the frenchmans awne ſelfe.

   1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “Prayer”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]: [Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folio cxxiij, verso

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   Adꝛian the .iiii. an engliſhman boꝛne, conſtreigned the Conſulles and Senatours of Rome to depoſe theym ſelfes, and to committe all theyꝛ rule vnto the churche.

   1549, William Thomas, “Abbridgement of the Liues of the Romaine Bishoppes”, in The Historie of Italie, a Boke Excedyng Profitable to Be Redde: Because It Intreateth of the Astate of Many and Diuers Common Weales, How Thei Haue Ben, & Now Be Gouerned, London: […] [I]n the house of Thomas Berthelet, folio 54, recto

   HAuing at this preſent publiſhed the Hiſtory off the Church of England, compiled by Venerable Bede, a lerned light of our countre aboue 800. yeares paſt, wherein the Faith firſt planted amonge vs engliſhmen, and ſo many hundred yeares continued, is expreſſed, I neuer doubted but the peruſall thereof ſhoulde be to the Catholike and true ſtedfaſt beleuers, bothe comfortable to reade, and neceſſary to vnderſtande.

   1565, Thomas Stapleton, “To the Deceiued Protestants of England, Thomas Stapleton Wisheth Grace, Humilite, and Vnderstanding”, in A Fortresse of the Faith: First Planted Amonge Vs Englishmen, and Continued Hitherto in the Vniuersall Church of Christ. The Faith of Which Time Protestants Call, Papistry., Antwerp: […] Ihon Laet, […], folio 2, recto

plural Englishmen · alternative obsolete englishman

1. A native or inhabitant of England; a man who is English by ancestry, birth, descent, or naturalisation.First known use 7th c.

   All Englishmen, male and female, young and old, are for the purposes of this establishment considered clean.

   1873, George Webbe Dasent, Jest an Earnest. A Collection of Essays and Reviews. In two Volumes. Vol. I, London, page 156

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   the Ynglishe men had great vyctorye, for there was taken and slayne a greate nombar, and there was slayne the lorde Morley and Englishe man.

   c. 1541, The Chronicle of Calais, London, published 1846

   To see twenty or thirty female Englishmen of full regulation-size dancing a ballet, is an overpowering luxury.

   1853, Saunterings in and about London. By Max Schlesinger. The English edition by Otto Wenckstern, London, page 278

   Rest assured it cannot rest idle until Englishmen, male, female, and children are mercilessly massacred to the best interests of the country.

   1909, Rambles and Adventures in Australasia, Canada, India, etc. By St. Michael-Podmore, London, page 270

   In Bangkok at twelve o'clock they foam at the mouth and run, / But mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.

   1931, Noel Coward, Mad Dogs and Englishmen

   He has his dark -- well, darkish -- side under control. Which is to say that he is an Englishman, well practiced in masking pain and absurdity and descents into sheer goofiness with mannerly behavior, sly irony and stiff upper lips.

   2003 November 3, Richard Schickel, “Sweet Agonies of Affection”, in Time

   Synonyms: Englander, Englishperson, English, Englisher> or <>>, Southron, Saxon, pom, Nigel

2. UKA grey partridge (in contrast with Frenchman, red-legged partridge).
3. QuebecdatedethnicslurA Canadian of British descent and/or whose first language is English (as opposed to French-descended, French-speaking Canadians).

   ... others, an aging Englishman who would do anything to further his fortune ...

   2017, David Bélanger, Béatrice G. Martineau, Charles Grenier, “Kona”, in Kona, Canada: Parabole

4. South AfricadatedethnicslurA South African of British descent, and/or whose first language is English (as opposed to Afrikaans-speaking Afrikaner South Africans).

   Fucking above your head Englishman!

   2008, Christopher-Lee dos Santos, At thy Call, Dino Pappas and Ksenija Micic