icemann.

Brit.

/ˈʌɪsman/, U.S.

/ˈaɪsˌmæn/

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

Etymology: < ice n. + man n.¹

a. A person who makes or sells confectionery ices, esp. water ices or ice creams. Cf. ice cream man n. at ice cream n. Compounds 2a. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > sellers of other provisions

cheesemonger1185

pudding-wife1287

eirmongerc1305

honeyman1510

egg-wife1659

corn-chandler1687

pickle man1714

tea man1736

pickle dealer1791

iceman1807

ice-creamer1851

plum duffer1851

barm-man1913

traiteur1963

1807 La Belle Assemblée Aug. 102/1 On desert... A good butler ought to be at the same time an iceman, a confectioner, a decorator, a painter, an architect, a sculptor, and a florist.

1882 Daily Tel. 11 Apr. An iceman..thoroughly proficient in all kinds of water and cream ices.

2005 Western Daily Press (Nexis) 13 Apr. 5 Rising temperatures in an ice cream turf war ended with a dramatic hammer attack on an ice man and his van at a West seaside resort, a court heard yesterday.

b. A person who sells or delivers ice, esp. for domestic use (now chiefly North American); (more generally, chiefly historical) a person engaged in the ice trade, or in harvesting ice for storage and sale. Cf. icemaker n. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > sellers of other specific things

soaper?c1225

oilman1275

smear-monger1297

upholder1333

basket-seller?1518

broom-seller?1518

upholster1554

rod-woman1602

starchwoman1604

pin manc1680

colour seller1685

potato-woman1697

printseller1700

rag-seller1700

Greenwich barber1785

sandboy1821

iceman1834

umbrella man1851

fly-boy1861

snuff-boxera1871

pedlar1872

snake-boy1873

bric-a-brac man1876

tinwoman1884

resurrectionist1888

butch1891

paanwallah1955

1834 F. Lieber Lett. to Gentleman in Germany vii. 128 The iceman comes; the baker rings the house bell;..and gradually one profession appears after the other on the stage of the day.

1870 ‘F. Fern’ Ginger-snaps 179 Let no grocer boy or ice-man fondly hope to retain the celestial spark, while he briefly deposits his wares in my kitchen.

1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Feb. 3/1 A rapid thaw will put a stop to the operations of the ice-man.

1925 Amer. Mercury Dec. 491/2 If she doesn't feel in her sub-conscious that her husband is a sapient fellow, he had better begin to keep a sharp eye on the iceman.

1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 230 We played our games. I was the iceman and she was the housewife.

1993 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 2 Feb. 10/7 Iceman Simon Ritchie reckons he has one of the ‘coolest’ jobs in Queensland, despite having to churn out up to 55 tonnes of ice every day.

2010 R. Skloot Immortal Life Henrietta Lacks (2011) ii. 29 By the early years of World War II, Turner Station had a few paved roads, a doctor, a general store, and an ice man.

2. A person who is skilled in travelling on or over ice or otherwise dealing with icy conditions; (also) one who is proficient in ice craft. Frequently with modifying adjective.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [noun] > in specific type of area or terrain

coaster1574

iceman1827

1827 A. Seton Poems 3 The cautious iceman, hammer stout—Each winter trav'ling track stalks out.

1851 W. P. Snow Voy. Prince Albert 302 Ten men formed the number of the working seamen; there were no ‘icemasters’, nor regular ‘ice-men’; but most of the sailors were long accustomed to the ice.

1892 C. T. Dent et al. Mountaineering (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) vi. 213 The districts above the snow-line explored and revealed by the iceman, not by the rock climber.

1920 G. W. Young Mountain Craft vii. 314 The great icemen..are able to lead a tired party unerringly through the..snow-covered glacier system.

1989 Amer. Alpine Jrnl. 62 Jay..is one of the best ice men in North America and when you want to win, you don't field the second team.

3. A person who maintains the ice on a skating rink or similar location; the caretaker or supervisor of a rink. Cf. icemaker n. 1b, ice master n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skating > [noun] > attendant

iceman1844

ice master1880

icemaker1904

1844 Economist 14 Dec. 1518/2 Skating in the Parks... The iceman immediately repaired to their assistance, with breaker, ladders, &c.

1894 Daily News 5 Jan. 5/4 A large staff of ‘ice-men’ to protect the ice on the forty lakes and ponds under the control of the Council.

1930 F. Muirhead Switzerland (ed. 2) p. liv Skating... A first-class ice-man can get ice even when the air-temperature at night has not sunk below freezing.

1957 Billboard 27 Apr. 65/2 Christmas time came and went with no ice show, and the showgoers realized what the ice men had been trying to tell them.

2010 E. Summers Teammates 102 I was good buddies with the Iceman on duty, mostly because I kept my teammates in line and never left a mess in the locker rooms.

4. Originally U.S. Sport. A man who performs well under pressure; a calm, composed, or dispassionate person (frequently as a nickname). Later also: a cold-hearted or ruthless man.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > other players

server1585

free agent1649

benchwarmer1662

puncher1681

sticker1779

hard hitter1790

hitter1813

go-devil1835

beneficiaire1841

colt1846

heavyweight1857

stayer1862

left-hander1864

attack1869

cap1879

international1882

roadman1886

big leaguer1887

homester1887

sand lotter1887

badger1890

internationalist1892

repeater1893

anchorman1895

grandstander1896

stylist1897

homebrew1903

letterman1905

toss-loser1906

fouler1908

rookie1908

mudder1912

sharpshooter1912

pro-amateur1919

receiver1919

southpaw1925

freestyler1927

hotshot1927

active1931

all-timer1936

iceman1936

wild card1940

scrambler1954

rounder1955

franchise1957

call-up1960

trialist1960

non-import1964

sandbagger1965

rebel1982

wide-body1986

1936 San Mateo (Calif.) Times 29 Feb. 5/4 Jockey George Woolf... His cool daring in important stakes has won him the sobriquet of ‘The Iceman’.

1958 Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune 30 Sept. 8/8 He'll face the ‘Iceman’ of the Yankees, Whitey Ford.

1970 Billboard 22 Aug. 20/1 Although he is noted for his cool composure, one detects a trace of cynicism when ‘Iceman’ Jerry Butler starts discussing the history of soul music.

1982 J. D. Vinge Psion iv. 84 He was an iceman; he could do anything to anybody and never feel a twinge.

1998 Hobart (Austral.) Mercury (Nexis) 4 Apr. ‘Iceman’ Fleming wins a hot one... Damien Fleming kept a cool head to point Australia to a hard-earned 13-run win.

2009 R. Mofina Vengeance Road 188 He was an iceman... He'd stop at nothing to save himself.

5. A prehistoric human or hominid discovered as frozen remains, esp. in glacial ice.Originally chiefly in folklore and fiction. In recent use chiefly with reference to a Bronze Age mummy known as Ötzi, found in the Italian Alps in 1991.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > protohuman > [noun]

anthropolite1778

Neanderthal man1861

caveman1862

man1863

prehistoric man1863

Pithecanthropus1873

Java man1895

Homo erectus1904

Heidelberg1909

Eoanthropus1912

dawn man1913

Neanderthaler1913

Piltdown man1913

Aurignacian1915

Neanderthalian1920

Rhodesian man1921

Boskopoid1926

Peking man1926

Sinanthropus1927

Piltdown1931

Predmostian1931

Minnesota Man1932

Neanderthaloid1934

Steinheim1935

Gigantopithecus1936

Africanthropus1938

Paranthropus1938

Piltdowner1941

Meganthropus1942

Telanthropus1949

Saldanha Man1953

pithecanthropine1955

Nutcracker Man1959

Homo habilis1964

iceman1972

1972 J. Napier Bigfoot iv. 102 Frank D. Hansen..stated in the early days of the Iceman affair that the creature had been found floating in a 6,000 lb block of natural ice.

1984 N.Y. Mag. 23 Apr. 101/1 Tim Hutton, a bearded young hotshot anthropologist who is also part of the team, wants to keep the iceman alive, observe him, ‘communicate’ with him.

1992 Nat. Hist. Feb. 23/2 I think..that the scientists are wrong about the hatchet and knife the Ice Man was carrying... They are not weapons; they are tools.

2004 R. Dawkins Ancestor's Tale 16 The ‘Ice Man’ of the Italian Tyrol was preserved in his glacier for 5,000 years.

Derivatives

ˈicemanship n. skill in traversing or dealing with the ice (in mountaineering, etc.); ice craft.

ΚΠ

1865 Alpine Jrnl. Mar. 16 He showed his knowledge of icemanship by calling out to me in unusually steep places that I ought to hold my alpenstock with one rather than with both hands.

1884 Graham in Pall Mall Gaz. 11 June 3 What I may venture to call icemanship is a fine art, only acquired by much experience... This art, which we call mountaineering, the use of ropes and ice-axes, and all that goes with them, does not yet exist in India.

1961 Lima (Ohio) News 14 Jan. (Entertainment section) 3/4 Tab Hunter, a former West Coast Skating champion, demonstrates his icemanship..when he tried to impress a beautiful girl in ‘Weekend on Ice’.

2010 Pioneer (India) (Nexis) 8 Nov. The SAWG games has multiple objectives, from tourism to sports promotion, however, the salient one is to promote ice man ship for the youth of the country and Uttrakhand in particular.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	iceman
释义	icemann. Brit. /ˈʌɪsman/, U.S. /ˈaɪsˌmæn/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: ice n., man n.¹ Etymology: < ice n. + man n.¹ 1. a. A person who makes or sells confectionery ices, esp. water ices or ice creams. Cf. ice cream man n. at ice cream n. Compounds 2a. rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > sellers of other provisions cheesemonger1185 pudding-wife1287 eirmongerc1305 honeyman1510 egg-wife1659 corn-chandler1687 pickle man1714 tea man1736 pickle dealer1791 iceman1807 ice-creamer1851 plum duffer1851 barm-man1913 traiteur1963 1807 La Belle Assemblée Aug. 102/1 On desert... A good butler ought to be at the same time an iceman, a confectioner, a decorator, a painter, an architect, a sculptor, and a florist. 1882 Daily Tel. 11 Apr. An iceman..thoroughly proficient in all kinds of water and cream ices. 2005 Western Daily Press (Nexis) 13 Apr. 5 Rising temperatures in an ice cream turf war ended with a dramatic hammer attack on an ice man and his van at a West seaside resort, a court heard yesterday. b. A person who sells or delivers ice, esp. for domestic use (now chiefly North American); (more generally, chiefly historical) a person engaged in the ice trade, or in harvesting ice for storage and sale. Cf. icemaker n. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > sellers of other specific things soaper?c1225 oilman1275 smear-monger1297 upholder1333 basket-seller?1518 broom-seller?1518 upholster1554 rod-woman1602 starchwoman1604 pin manc1680 colour seller1685 potato-woman1697 printseller1700 rag-seller1700 Greenwich barber1785 sandboy1821 iceman1834 umbrella man1851 fly-boy1861 snuff-boxera1871 pedlar1872 snake-boy1873 bric-a-brac man1876 tinwoman1884 resurrectionist1888 butch1891 paanwallah1955 1834 F. Lieber Lett. to Gentleman in Germany vii. 128 The iceman comes; the baker rings the house bell;..and gradually one profession appears after the other on the stage of the day. 1870 ‘F. Fern’ Ginger-snaps 179 Let no grocer boy or ice-man fondly hope to retain the celestial spark, while he briefly deposits his wares in my kitchen. 1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Feb. 3/1 A rapid thaw will put a stop to the operations of the ice-man. 1925 Amer. Mercury Dec. 491/2 If she doesn't feel in her sub-conscious that her husband is a sapient fellow, he had better begin to keep a sharp eye on the iceman. 1959 N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 230 We played our games. I was the iceman and she was the housewife. 1993 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 2 Feb. 10/7 Iceman Simon Ritchie reckons he has one of the ‘coolest’ jobs in Queensland, despite having to churn out up to 55 tonnes of ice every day. 2010 R. Skloot Immortal Life Henrietta Lacks (2011) ii. 29 By the early years of World War II, Turner Station had a few paved roads, a doctor, a general store, and an ice man. 2. A person who is skilled in travelling on or over ice or otherwise dealing with icy conditions; (also) one who is proficient in ice craft. Frequently with modifying adjective. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [noun] > in specific type of area or terrain coaster1574 iceman1827 1827 A. Seton Poems 3 The cautious iceman, hammer stout—Each winter trav'ling track stalks out. 1851 W. P. Snow Voy. Prince Albert 302 Ten men formed the number of the working seamen; there were no ‘icemasters’, nor regular ‘ice-men’; but most of the sailors were long accustomed to the ice. 1892 C. T. Dent et al. Mountaineering (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) vi. 213 The districts above the snow-line explored and revealed by the iceman, not by the rock climber. 1920 G. W. Young Mountain Craft vii. 314 The great icemen..are able to lead a tired party unerringly through the..snow-covered glacier system. 1989 Amer. Alpine Jrnl. 62 Jay..is one of the best ice men in North America and when you want to win, you don't field the second team. 3. A person who maintains the ice on a skating rink or similar location; the caretaker or supervisor of a rink. Cf. icemaker n. 1b, ice master n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > skating > [noun] > attendant iceman1844 ice master1880 icemaker1904 1844 Economist 14 Dec. 1518/2 Skating in the Parks... The iceman immediately repaired to their assistance, with breaker, ladders, &c. 1894 Daily News 5 Jan. 5/4 A large staff of ‘ice-men’ to protect the ice on the forty lakes and ponds under the control of the Council. 1930 F. Muirhead Switzerland (ed. 2) p. liv Skating... A first-class ice-man can get ice even when the air-temperature at night has not sunk below freezing. 1957 Billboard 27 Apr. 65/2 Christmas time came and went with no ice show, and the showgoers realized what the ice men had been trying to tell them. 2010 E. Summers Teammates 102 I was good buddies with the Iceman on duty, mostly because I kept my teammates in line and never left a mess in the locker rooms. 4. Originally U.S. Sport. A man who performs well under pressure; a calm, composed, or dispassionate person (frequently as a nickname). Later also: a cold-hearted or ruthless man. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > other players server1585 free agent1649 benchwarmer1662 puncher1681 sticker1779 hard hitter1790 hitter1813 go-devil1835 beneficiaire1841 colt1846 heavyweight1857 stayer1862 left-hander1864 attack1869 cap1879 international1882 roadman1886 big leaguer1887 homester1887 sand lotter1887 badger1890 internationalist1892 repeater1893 anchorman1895 grandstander1896 stylist1897 homebrew1903 letterman1905 toss-loser1906 fouler1908 rookie1908 mudder1912 sharpshooter1912 pro-amateur1919 receiver1919 southpaw1925 freestyler1927 hotshot1927 active1931 all-timer1936 iceman1936 wild card1940 scrambler1954 rounder1955 franchise1957 call-up1960 trialist1960 non-import1964 sandbagger1965 rebel1982 wide-body1986 1936 San Mateo (Calif.) Times 29 Feb. 5/4 Jockey George Woolf... His cool daring in important stakes has won him the sobriquet of ‘The Iceman’. 1958 Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune 30 Sept. 8/8 He'll face the ‘Iceman’ of the Yankees, Whitey Ford. 1970 Billboard 22 Aug. 20/1 Although he is noted for his cool composure, one detects a trace of cynicism when ‘Iceman’ Jerry Butler starts discussing the history of soul music. 1982 J. D. Vinge Psion iv. 84 He was an iceman; he could do anything to anybody and never feel a twinge. 1998 Hobart (Austral.) Mercury (Nexis) 4 Apr. ‘Iceman’ Fleming wins a hot one... Damien Fleming kept a cool head to point Australia to a hard-earned 13-run win. 2009 R. Mofina Vengeance Road 188 He was an iceman... He'd stop at nothing to save himself. 5. A prehistoric human or hominid discovered as frozen remains, esp. in glacial ice.Originally chiefly in folklore and fiction. In recent use chiefly with reference to a Bronze Age mummy known as Ötzi, found in the Italian Alps in 1991. ΘΚΠ the world > people > protohuman > [noun] anthropolite1778 Neanderthal man1861 caveman1862 man1863 prehistoric man1863 Pithecanthropus1873 Java man1895 Homo erectus1904 Heidelberg1909 Eoanthropus1912 dawn man1913 Neanderthaler1913 Piltdown man1913 Aurignacian1915 Neanderthalian1920 Rhodesian man1921 Boskopoid1926 Peking man1926 Sinanthropus1927 Piltdown1931 Predmostian1931 Minnesota Man1932 Neanderthaloid1934 Steinheim1935 Gigantopithecus1936 Africanthropus1938 Paranthropus1938 Piltdowner1941 Meganthropus1942 Telanthropus1949 Saldanha Man1953 pithecanthropine1955 Nutcracker Man1959 Homo habilis1964 iceman1972 1972 J. Napier Bigfoot iv. 102 Frank D. Hansen..stated in the early days of the Iceman affair that the creature had been found floating in a 6,000 lb block of natural ice. 1984 N.Y. Mag. 23 Apr. 101/1 Tim Hutton, a bearded young hotshot anthropologist who is also part of the team, wants to keep the iceman alive, observe him, ‘communicate’ with him. 1992 Nat. Hist. Feb. 23/2 I think..that the scientists are wrong about the hatchet and knife the Ice Man was carrying... They are not weapons; they are tools. 2004 R. Dawkins Ancestor's Tale 16 The ‘Ice Man’ of the Italian Tyrol was preserved in his glacier for 5,000 years. Derivatives ˈicemanship n. skill in traversing or dealing with the ice (in mountaineering, etc.); ice craft. ΚΠ 1865 Alpine Jrnl. Mar. 16 He showed his knowledge of icemanship by calling out to me in unusually steep places that I ought to hold my alpenstock with one rather than with both hands. 1884 Graham in Pall Mall Gaz. 11 June 3 What I may venture to call icemanship is a fine art, only acquired by much experience... This art, which we call mountaineering, the use of ropes and ice-axes, and all that goes with them, does not yet exist in India. 1961 Lima (Ohio) News 14 Jan. (Entertainment section) 3/4 Tab Hunter, a former West Coast Skating champion, demonstrates his icemanship..when he tried to impress a beautiful girl in ‘Weekend on Ice’. 2010 Pioneer (India) (Nexis) 8 Nov. The SAWG games has multiple objectives, from tourism to sports promotion, however, the salient one is to promote ice man ship for the youth of the country and Uttrakhand in particular. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1807
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