hodmann.

Brit.

/ˈhɒdmən/, U.S.

/ˈhɑdmən/

Etymology: < hod n. 1 + man n.¹

1. A man who carries on his shoulder the hod supplying builders with mortar (which he also prepares), bricks, or stones; a ‘bricklayer's labourer’. (Now very rarely used in the trade.)

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > builder of walls > bricklayer > assistant

hodman1587

hod-carrier1771

cad1836

paddy1856

hodsman1863

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1541/2 They were onelie good dikers and hodmen.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Hod-man, a Labourer that bears a Hod.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. v. 46 One of them,..said, He was as weary as a hodman that had been beating plaster.

1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. I. i. ii. §8. 51 The stupidest hodman, who repeats from day to day the mechanical act of climbing a ladder.

2. figurative.

a. One who more or less mechanically supplies material to a constructive worker.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > [noun] > one who mechanically supplies materials

hodman1829

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > construction worker > type of

hodman1829

banksman1956

1829 T. Carlyle Jrnl. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: First Forty Years (1882) II. iv. 79 They [sc. political economists] are the hodmen of the intellectual edifice, who have got upon the wall and will insist on building as if they were masons.

1887 Sir J. D. Hooker in Darwin's Life & Lett. I. 347 This generous appreciation of the hod-men of science, and their labours.

b. A mechanical worker in literature, a literary hack.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > hack

hack writer1711

garreteer1720

hack authora1734

hack1798

truckster1843

hodman1849

ghost1881

devil1888

deviller1893

ghostwriter1908

1849 D. M. Mulock Ogilvies (1875) xxv. 185 A sort of literary hodman.

3. A term of contempt applied by undergraduates of Christ Church, Oxford, who were King's Scholars of Westminster School, to those who were not, and hence to men of other colleges.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > types at specific universities

son?c1550

Bibler1569

round cap1572

batteler1604

fellow commoner1614

gentleman-commoner1614

primar1642

Bible-clerk1650

Harry-Sopha1661

hodman1677

nobleman1682

seconder1684

grueller1691

ternar1698

tuft1755

red gowna1774

ten-year-man1816

prick-bill1818

bear1828

martinet1831

sheep1865

trotter1883

skiver1884

hall-reader1886

sign-off1902

night climber1937

techie1969

1677 A. Littleton Eng.–Lat. Dict. in Dictionarium Latino-Barbarum A Hodman, in Christchurch at Oxford. Advena, alienigena (quippe quod Alumni Regii e Schola Westmonasteriensi eo adsciti se pro Indigenis habeant).

1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius No. 1 The men [of Christ Church] gave themselves airs..those of other Colleges were ‘squils’ and ‘hodmen’.

4. Variously misexplained in dictionaries: see quots.

ΚΠ

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Hodman,..a young Scholar admitted from Westminster-School to be a Student in Christ's-Church College in Oxford. [Followed by Chambers (1727), Rees (1819), etc.]

1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Hodman, a nickname for a canon of Christ Church, Oxford.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	hodman
释义	hodmann. Brit. /ˈhɒdmən/, U.S. /ˈhɑdmən/ Etymology: < hod n. 1 + man n.¹ 1. A man who carries on his shoulder the hod supplying builders with mortar (which he also prepares), bricks, or stones; a ‘bricklayer's labourer’. (Now very rarely used in the trade.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > builder of walls > bricklayer > assistant hodman1587 hod-carrier1771 cad1836 paddy1856 hodsman1863 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1541/2 They were onelie good dikers and hodmen. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Hod-man, a Labourer that bears a Hod. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. v. 46 One of them,..said, He was as weary as a hodman that had been beating plaster. 1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. I. i. ii. §8. 51 The stupidest hodman, who repeats from day to day the mechanical act of climbing a ladder. 2. figurative. a. One who more or less mechanically supplies material to a constructive worker. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > [noun] > one who mechanically supplies materials hodman1829 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > construction worker > type of hodman1829 banksman1956 1829 T. Carlyle Jrnl. in J. A. Froude T. Carlyle: First Forty Years (1882) II. iv. 79 They [sc. political economists] are the hodmen of the intellectual edifice, who have got upon the wall and will insist on building as if they were masons. 1887 Sir J. D. Hooker in Darwin's Life & Lett. I. 347 This generous appreciation of the hod-men of science, and their labours. b. A mechanical worker in literature, a literary hack. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > hack hack writer1711 garreteer1720 hack authora1734 hack1798 truckster1843 hodman1849 ghost1881 devil1888 deviller1893 ghostwriter1908 1849 D. M. Mulock Ogilvies (1875) xxv. 185 A sort of literary hodman. 3. A term of contempt applied by undergraduates of Christ Church, Oxford, who were King's Scholars of Westminster School, to those who were not, and hence to men of other colleges. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > types at specific universities son?c1550 Bibler1569 round cap1572 batteler1604 fellow commoner1614 gentleman-commoner1614 primar1642 Bible-clerk1650 Harry-Sopha1661 hodman1677 nobleman1682 seconder1684 grueller1691 ternar1698 tuft1755 red gowna1774 ten-year-man1816 prick-bill1818 bear1828 martinet1831 sheep1865 trotter1883 skiver1884 hall-reader1886 sign-off1902 night climber1937 techie1969 1677 A. Littleton Eng.–Lat. Dict. in Dictionarium Latino-Barbarum A Hodman, in Christchurch at Oxford. Advena, alienigena (quippe quod Alumni Regii e Schola Westmonasteriensi eo adsciti se pro Indigenis habeant). 1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius No. 1 The men [of Christ Church] gave themselves airs..those of other Colleges were ‘squils’ and ‘hodmen’. 4. Variously misexplained in dictionaries: see quots. ΚΠ 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Hodman,..a young Scholar admitted from Westminster-School to be a Student in Christ's-Church College in Oxford. [Followed by Chambers (1727), Rees (1819), etc.] 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Hodman, a nickname for a canon of Christ Church, Oxford. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1587
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