Englishmann.

Brit.

/ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃmən/, U.S.

/ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lᵻʃmən/

Inflections: Plural Englishmen.

Forms: see English adj. and n. and man n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: English adj., man n.¹

Etymology: < English adj. + man n.¹In Old English and early Middle English the first element is usually treated as a normal adjective inflected for case and number.

1. A man who is English by descent, birth, or naturalization; (typically) a man born in England or of English parents.For the various meanings of English in early use see note at the etymology of English adj. and n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England

EnglishmaneOE

EnglishOE

startc1438

Southron1488

Englander1610

knife-man1643

Englisher1652

southern1721

John Bull1772

Saxon1810

Sassenach1815

rosbif1826

Goddam1830

Angrezi1866

Angrez1877

Percy1916

Limey1918

woodbine1918

homie1926

kipper1946

eOE Laws of Ine (Corpus Cambr. 173) xxiv. 100 Gif witeðeow Engliscmon [L. Anglicus] hine forstalie, ho hine mon.

lOE Laws: Dunsæte (Corpus Cambr.) v. 376 Gyf Wealh Englisne man [L. Anglicum] ofslea, ne ðearf he hine hiden [read hider] ofer buton be healfan were gyldan.

lOE Laws of Æðelred II (Corpus Cambr. 383) ii. v. 222 Gyf Ænglisc man Deniscne ofsleo.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 7705 Tatt daȝȝ mang ennglisshe menn Iss kanndellmesse nemm-nedd.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 988 Ah Englisce men [c1300 Otho Englissemen] hit habbed [read habbeð] awend.

1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. 33 To calle the men of the londe englisshmen.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 249 To laud and Inglis man i spell.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 242 Of ingland þe nacione Er englijs men [a1400 Vesp. Es Inglis man, a1400 Fairf. ys englis man] in comune.

1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxli. 267 Thurugh helpe and comfort of our englysshmen.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cvii. 129 Ther was no Englysshman of armes, but that had ii. or iii. prisoners.

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 3 Our ald storeis..Tha war distroyit all with Inglismen.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 85 The Ingles men..vses that ald Saxone toung.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. iii. 272 Though banisht, yet a true borne English man.

1624 W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. iv. 80 Many Englishmen, conuertentur ad Dominum Deum.

1668 T. Jordan Selfe (single sheet) Let him be Englishman, 'Spaniard, or Roman, When each Man's for himself, then God is for no Man.

1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman i. 20 Thus from a Mixture of all Kinds began, That Het'rogeneous Thing, An Englishman.

1745 H. Walpole Let. 13 July (1941) IX. 17 We, who formerly could any one of us beat three Frenchmen, are now so degenerated that three Frenchmen can evidently beat one Englishman.

1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 10 An Englishman is taught to..acknowledge no other master than the laws which himself has contributed to enact.

1775 J. Sewall Cure for Spleen 6 What is the obedience due from an American Englishman, to the king and parliament of Great-Britain.

1824 W. Cobbett (title) A history of the Protestant ‘reformation’, in England and Ireland; showing how that event has impoverished and degraded the main body of the people in those countries. In a series of letters addressed to all sensible and just Englishmen.

1863 London Rev. 10 Jan. 35/2 A thoroughly vulgar Englishman is as offensive an animal as the human mind can well imagine.

1915 J. Turner Let. 15 July in C. Warren Somewhere in France (2019) 17 The great man whose honour is on the lips of all Englishmen is changed marvellously from the hero of the photographs that everybody knows.

1941 ‘G. Orwell’ Lion & Unicorn ii. 13 Nothing is causeless, and even the fact that Englishmen have bad teeth can tell one something about the realities of English life.

1974 T. Sharpe Porterhouse Blue (1979) xii. 129 Take one Englishman and you've an idiot. Two Englishmen a club and three Englishmen an Empire.

2007 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Apr. 185/2 English comestibles, the sort of thing that Englishmen abroad are supposed to yearn for: Bird's custard, Marmite, Bovril, Jammie Dodgers.

2. An English ship. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels from specific country or region > [noun] > English or British

Englishman1533

red cross1624

lime-juicer1859

Limey1918

1533 Ld. Lisle Let. 12 Aug. in State Papers Domestic (P.R.O.: SP 1/78) f. 108 And as I was writing of this present, ther came iiij sayle of frenche shippes in to the haven of cales to taek socur, which saithe that the foresaid shippes hathe robbyd an englishe man in the downis.

1619 W. Phillip tr. W. C. Schouten Relation Wonderfull Voiage 75 There was at least 20. ships, Hollanders and Englishmen round about the Island of Tarnata.

1661 S. Pepys Diary 28 Nov. (1970) II. 221 He..hath done some execution upon the Turks—and retaken an Englishman from them, of one Mr. Parker's, a merchant in Markelane.

1823 J. F. Cooper Pilot xxxiii Griffith saw his own ship borne away from the Englishman.

1885 W. C. Russell Strange Voy. I. iv. 36 She was not an Englishman, though I really forget the nationality of the colour she flew at the peak.

1944 French Rev. 17 142 After an hour's battle the ship, which was an Englishman, surrendered.

Phrases

an Englishman's house is his castle and variants: see castle n. 3e.

Compounds

Englishman's foot n. North American (now historical) greater plantain, Plantago major; cf. English plantain n. at English adj. and n. Compounds 1b.

ΚΠ

1687 J. Clayton Let. in Philos. Trans. 1739–40 (Royal Soc.) (1742) 41 145 Our Plantain..[in Virginia] they call..the Englishman's-foot.

1861 P. Lankester Wild Flowers 109 Plantain..has been named, by the natives in some of our settlements, ‘the Englishman's Foot’.

1942 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 86 113/1 Indian tradition was emphatic..about such a widespread plant-pest as Plantago major, to which the Indians gave the name of ‘Englishman's foot’.

2014 J. Eastman Wildflowers Eastern U.S. 117/2 Supposedly common plantain followed the Roman legions wherever they set foot. Native Americans, observing the plant's spread, carried the analogy further by naming it ‘Englishman's foot’ and ‘white man's footprint’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	englishman
释义	Englishmann. Brit. /ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lɪʃmən/, U.S. /ˈɪŋ(ɡ)lᵻʃmən/ Inflections: Plural Englishmen. Forms: see English adj. and n. and man n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: English adj., man n.¹ Etymology: < English adj. + man n.¹In Old English and early Middle English the first element is usually treated as a normal adjective inflected for case and number. 1. A man who is English by descent, birth, or naturalization; (typically) a man born in England or of English parents.For the various meanings of English in early use see note at the etymology of English adj. and n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England EnglishmaneOE EnglishOE startc1438 Southron1488 Englander1610 knife-man1643 Englisher1652 southern1721 John Bull1772 Saxon1810 Sassenach1815 rosbif1826 Goddam1830 Angrezi1866 Angrez1877 Percy1916 Limey1918 woodbine1918 homie1926 kipper1946 eOE Laws of Ine (Corpus Cambr. 173) xxiv. 100 Gif witeðeow Engliscmon [L. Anglicus] hine forstalie, ho hine mon. lOE Laws: Dunsæte (Corpus Cambr.) v. 376 Gyf Wealh Englisne man [L. Anglicum] ofslea, ne ðearf he hine hiden [read hider] ofer buton be healfan were gyldan. lOE Laws of Æðelred II (Corpus Cambr. 383) ii. v. 222 Gyf Ænglisc man Deniscne ofsleo. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 7705 Tatt daȝȝ mang ennglisshe menn Iss kanndellmesse nemm-nedd. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 988 Ah Englisce men [c1300 Otho Englissemen] hit habbed [read habbeð] awend. 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. 33 To calle the men of the londe englisshmen. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 249 To laud and Inglis man i spell. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 242 Of ingland þe nacione Er englijs men [a1400 Vesp. Es Inglis man, a1400 Fairf. ys englis man] in comune. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxli. 267 Thurugh helpe and comfort of our englysshmen. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cvii. 129 Ther was no Englysshman of armes, but that had ii. or iii. prisoners. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 3 Our ald storeis..Tha war distroyit all with Inglismen. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 85 The Ingles men..vses that ald Saxone toung. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. iii. 272 Though banisht, yet a true borne English man. 1624 W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. iv. 80 Many Englishmen, conuertentur ad Dominum Deum. 1668 T. Jordan Selfe (single sheet) Let him be Englishman, 'Spaniard, or Roman, When each Man's for himself, then God is for no Man. 1701 D. Defoe True-born Englishman i. 20 Thus from a Mixture of all Kinds began, That Het'rogeneous Thing, An Englishman. 1745 H. Walpole Let. 13 July (1941) IX. 17 We, who formerly could any one of us beat three Frenchmen, are now so degenerated that three Frenchmen can evidently beat one Englishman. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 10 An Englishman is taught to..acknowledge no other master than the laws which himself has contributed to enact. 1775 J. Sewall Cure for Spleen 6 What is the obedience due from an American Englishman, to the king and parliament of Great-Britain. 1824 W. Cobbett (title) A history of the Protestant ‘reformation’, in England and Ireland; showing how that event has impoverished and degraded the main body of the people in those countries. In a series of letters addressed to all sensible and just Englishmen. 1863 London Rev. 10 Jan. 35/2 A thoroughly vulgar Englishman is as offensive an animal as the human mind can well imagine. 1915 J. Turner Let. 15 July in C. Warren Somewhere in France (2019) 17 The great man whose honour is on the lips of all Englishmen is changed marvellously from the hero of the photographs that everybody knows. 1941 ‘G. Orwell’ Lion & Unicorn ii. 13 Nothing is causeless, and even the fact that Englishmen have bad teeth can tell one something about the realities of English life. 1974 T. Sharpe Porterhouse Blue (1979) xii. 129 Take one Englishman and you've an idiot. Two Englishmen a club and three Englishmen an Empire. 2007 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Apr. 185/2 English comestibles, the sort of thing that Englishmen abroad are supposed to yearn for: Bird's custard, Marmite, Bovril, Jammie Dodgers. 2. An English ship. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels from specific country or region > [noun] > English or British Englishman1533 red cross1624 lime-juicer1859 Limey1918 1533 Ld. Lisle Let. 12 Aug. in State Papers Domestic (P.R.O.: SP 1/78) f. 108 And as I was writing of this present, ther came iiij sayle of frenche shippes in to the haven of cales to taek socur, which saithe that the foresaid shippes hathe robbyd an englishe man in the downis. 1619 W. Phillip tr. W. C. Schouten Relation Wonderfull Voiage 75 There was at least 20. ships, Hollanders and Englishmen round about the Island of Tarnata. 1661 S. Pepys Diary 28 Nov. (1970) II. 221 He..hath done some execution upon the Turks—and retaken an Englishman from them, of one Mr. Parker's, a merchant in Markelane. 1823 J. F. Cooper Pilot xxxiii Griffith saw his own ship borne away from the Englishman. 1885 W. C. Russell Strange Voy. I. iv. 36 She was not an Englishman, though I really forget the nationality of the colour she flew at the peak. 1944 French Rev. 17 142 After an hour's battle the ship, which was an Englishman, surrendered. Phrases an Englishman's house is his castle and variants: see castle n. 3e. Compounds Englishman's foot n. North American (now historical) greater plantain, Plantago major; cf. English plantain n. at English adj. and n. Compounds 1b. ΚΠ 1687 J. Clayton Let. in Philos. Trans. 1739–40 (Royal Soc.) (1742) 41 145 Our Plantain..[in Virginia] they call..the Englishman's-foot. 1861 P. Lankester Wild Flowers 109 Plantain..has been named, by the natives in some of our settlements, ‘the Englishman's Foot’. 1942 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 86 113/1 Indian tradition was emphatic..about such a widespread plant-pest as Plantago major, to which the Indians gave the name of ‘Englishman's foot’. 2014 J. Eastman Wildflowers Eastern U.S. 117/2 Supposedly common plantain followed the Roman legions wherever they set foot. Native Americans, observing the plant's spread, carried the analogy further by naming it ‘Englishman's foot’ and ‘white man's footprint’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOE
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