blanket mann.

Brit.

/ˈblaŋkᵻt man/, U.S.

/ˈblæŋkət ˌmæn/, Irish English /ˈblæŋkət mæn/

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

Etymology: < blanket n. + man n.¹ With sense 1 compare earlier blanketer n.

1. A man who makes or sells blankets, or who is involved in this trade.Probably not a fixed collocation. In later use eclipsed by sense 3.

ΚΠ

1759 Sussex Weekly Advertiser 30 Apr. On Saturday last was committed to Horsham Gaol..a Servant to a Blanket-Man, for cursing his Majesty.

1825 Westmoreland Gaz. 15 Oct. There has not been a better fair for many years;—the dealers in Yorkshire cloths, blanket-men, hardware-men, toymen, &c.

1916 Court of Customs Appeals Rep. 6 198 One [witness]..stated that the material was a ‘mill waste’; that ‘we chiefly sell it to blanket men and carpet yarn men’.

1971 Daily Tel. 8 Nov. 17/1 The blanket men will not say how many British beds have fallen to the invader [sc. the continental quilt] but they do admit that the growth has been stripped off their £30 million a year business.

2. North American slang. A male itinerant labourer who travels with his possessions wrapped in a blanket or bedroll. Cf. blanket stiff n., bindle-man n., bindle-stiff. Now historical.Usually derogatory or depreciative, having negative associations with begging, homelessness, etc.

ΚΠ

1872 S. Powers Afoot & Alone xxiii. 309 One of the notable phenomena of California is the multitude of tramps, the so-called ‘blanket men’.

1919 Canad. Mining Jrnl. 28 May 382/2 ‘Blanket men’, who brought their own blankets and slept in bunkhouses formerly, now were not content with such conditions.

1940 Violations of Free Speech & Rights of Labor: Hearings before Subcomm. Comm. Educ. & Labor S. Res. 266: Pt. 53 (U.S. Senate 76th Congr., 3rd Sess.) 19465 We have them quite commonly in the northern part of the State [sc. California], but they take employment where they can get it, wherever it might be; but they are not considered agricultural laborers, blanket men. We call them ‘bindle stiffs’.

2009 E. Schmidt Dream Fields Florida ii. 17 The Great Depression produced a large labor pool of poor whites... Farmworkers were lumped together with ‘hobos’, ‘tramps’, and ‘blanket men’ who followed the ‘dirty plate route’ wherever rumors of job possibilities would take them.

3. British and Irish English. A male prisoner participating in the ‘blanket protest’ in the Maze prison (near Belfast) and elsewhere in the late 1970s and early 1980s. See blanket protest n., and cf. blanket prisoner n. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > militancy > [noun] > militant person > protester or demonstrator > types of protester or demonstrator

counterprotester1863

hunger-marcher1908

peace marcher1918

sit-downer1936

sit-inner1936

protest marcher1947

sitter1960

freedom rider1961

sit-in1961

sitter-in1961

live-in1964

protest singer1966

1977 Fortnight 16 Sept. 5/3 It is difficult to see how the way in which the blanket men are being treated does not constitute humiliating and degrading treatment.

1995 K. Toolis Rebel Hearts (1996) iii. 140 Sands died..on 5 May; his death and that of the other nine hunger-strikers had a huge impact on the blanket men.

2017 State Crime Jrnl. 6 279 Our Facebook forum, restricted to former blanket men.., has daily posts from many former prisoners.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022).

单词	blanket man
释义	blanket mann. Brit. /ˈblaŋkᵻt man/, U.S. /ˈblæŋkət ˌmæn/, Irish English /ˈblæŋkət mæn/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blanket n., man n.¹ Etymology: < blanket n. + man n.¹ With sense 1 compare earlier blanketer n. 1. A man who makes or sells blankets, or who is involved in this trade.Probably not a fixed collocation. In later use eclipsed by sense 3. ΚΠ 1759 Sussex Weekly Advertiser 30 Apr. On Saturday last was committed to Horsham Gaol..a Servant to a Blanket-Man, for cursing his Majesty. 1825 Westmoreland Gaz. 15 Oct. There has not been a better fair for many years;—the dealers in Yorkshire cloths, blanket-men, hardware-men, toymen, &c. 1916 Court of Customs Appeals Rep. 6 198 One [witness]..stated that the material was a ‘mill waste’; that ‘we chiefly sell it to blanket men and carpet yarn men’. 1971 Daily Tel. 8 Nov. 17/1 The blanket men will not say how many British beds have fallen to the invader [sc. the continental quilt] but they do admit that the growth has been stripped off their £30 million a year business. 2. North American slang. A male itinerant labourer who travels with his possessions wrapped in a blanket or bedroll. Cf. blanket stiff n., bindle-man n., bindle-stiff. Now historical.Usually derogatory or depreciative, having negative associations with begging, homelessness, etc. ΚΠ 1872 S. Powers Afoot & Alone xxiii. 309 One of the notable phenomena of California is the multitude of tramps, the so-called ‘blanket men’. 1919 Canad. Mining Jrnl. 28 May 382/2 ‘Blanket men’, who brought their own blankets and slept in bunkhouses formerly, now were not content with such conditions. 1940 Violations of Free Speech & Rights of Labor: Hearings before Subcomm. Comm. Educ. & Labor S. Res. 266: Pt. 53 (U.S. Senate 76th Congr., 3rd Sess.) 19465 We have them quite commonly in the northern part of the State [sc. California], but they take employment where they can get it, wherever it might be; but they are not considered agricultural laborers, blanket men. We call them ‘bindle stiffs’. 2009 E. Schmidt Dream Fields Florida ii. 17 The Great Depression produced a large labor pool of poor whites... Farmworkers were lumped together with ‘hobos’, ‘tramps’, and ‘blanket men’ who followed the ‘dirty plate route’ wherever rumors of job possibilities would take them. 3. British and Irish English. A male prisoner participating in the ‘blanket protest’ in the Maze prison (near Belfast) and elsewhere in the late 1970s and early 1980s. See blanket protest n., and cf. blanket prisoner n. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > militancy > [noun] > militant person > protester or demonstrator > types of protester or demonstrator counterprotester1863 hunger-marcher1908 peace marcher1918 sit-downer1936 sit-inner1936 protest marcher1947 sitter1960 freedom rider1961 sit-in1961 sitter-in1961 live-in1964 protest singer1966 1977 Fortnight 16 Sept. 5/3 It is difficult to see how the way in which the blanket men are being treated does not constitute humiliating and degrading treatment. 1995 K. Toolis Rebel Hearts (1996) iii. 140 Sands died..on 5 May; his death and that of the other nine hunger-strikers had a huge impact on the blanket men. 2017 State Crime Jrnl. 6 279 Our Facebook forum, restricted to former blanket men.., has daily posts from many former prisoners. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022). < n.1759
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