aldermanikinn.
/ˌɔːldəˈmanᵻkɪn/, /ˌɒldəˈmanᵻkɪn/, U.S. /ˌɔldərˈmænəkən/, /ˌɑldərˈmænəkən/ humorous or depreciative. rare.
A little or young alderman.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > municipal magistrate > [noun] > alderman > little or young
aldermanikin1640
1640 R. Brome Antipodes sig. F2 Item, a love Epistle for the Aldermanikin his sonne.
1871 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 75/1 It has now come to this, that huckstering aldermen,—bloated, gouty-hooved, asthmatic, turtle-eating aldermen, with their puny brood of aldermanikins like you, desecrate the heather.
1900 J. Hollingshead According to My Lights 269 A fussy Aldermannikin, with much to do and say.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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