glueman

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noun

A man who manufactures or uses glue.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

nounglueman (plural gluemen)

plural gluemen

  1. rareA man who manufactures or uses glue.

    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
    2 more examples

    [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

    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

Origin

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Chicago

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