muckmann.
/ˈmʌkmən/, U.S. /ˈməkmən/, /ˈməkˌmæn/, Scottish English /ˈmʌkmən/ British regional (chiefly Scottish).
A street cleaner. Later also: a refuse collector, a dustman.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > one who
muckman1569
dustman1707
garbage collector1847
scaffy1853
refuse collector1876
sanitation man1939
garbageologist1940
garbologist1946
binmana1966
trashman1965
dustbinman1969
1569 Edinb. Test. I. f. 232, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Muk-, Muckman To Andro Achesoun mukman..for twa ȝeiris fe ix li. xvi s.
1680 in A. W. C. Hallen Acct. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894) 19 To ye muckman that dights ye close.
1746 R. Edgar Hist. Dumfries (1915) 85 The Muckmen or daily labourers, and servants of the Heretors in their husbandry or labouring the Burrow Aikers.
1873 W. McDowall Hist. Dunfries 308 This more humble fraternity [of day labourers and servants] had a chief entitled the Lord of the Muckmen.
a1918 W. Owen A terre in Coll. Poems (1920) 28 I'd love to be a sweep, now, black as Town, Yes, or a muckman.
1966 F. Shaw et al. Lern Yerself Scouse 23 Der muckman,..the refuse collector.
1980 Observer 17 Feb. 38/1 Boswell's contemporaries, who used close stools, shoved them in the closet for the nightly muckman's removal, then forgot them.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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