different between dodman vs dogman

English

Etymology

Possibly dod (“(archaic) rounded, bare hilltop”) +? -man, in the sense of a creature carrying a hill on its back. The word dod is from dod (“to clip, cut or lop off”), from Middle English dodden (“to shave, shear; to trim (a plant); to poll (cattle); to cut off (someone's head)”), from dod, dodde (“measure of grain”), from Old English.

The surveyor sense appears to be based on a misconception by English amateur archaeologist and author Alfred Watkins (1855–1935) in his book The Old Straight Track (1925).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?dm?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?dm?n/
• Hyphenation: dod?man

Noun

dodman (plural dodmans or dodmen) (East Anglia, dialectal)

1. A land-based snail.
2. A snail's shell.
3. Any shellfish which casts its shell, such as a lobster.
4. (rare, possibly erroneous) A surveyor.

Related terms

• hodmandod

References

Further reading

• dodman on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “dodman” in the Collins English Dictionary, retrieved 14 August 2017

Anagrams

• odd man

English

Etymology

dog +? -man

Pronunciation

Noun

dogman (plural dogmen)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) An assistant to a crane operator, responsible for securing the crane's load and directing the operator.
   • 1998, Meredith Burgmann, Verity Burgmann, Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental Activism and the New South Wales Builders Labourers? Federation, page 108,

     Accordingly, during 1972 the union embarked upon a concerted campaign to enforce the use of two dogmen on each crane.

   • 2005, Henry Pollack, The Accidental Developer: The Fascinating Rise to the Top of Mirvac Founder Henry Pollack, page 243,

     The usual crane crew required for operation of the site was one crane driver and two dogmen, but the BLF insisted that the builder keep a relief crane driver and a relief dogman permanently on site.

   • 2010, Raymond D. Clements, Aussie Rogue, page 59,

     The only work I had done as a dogman was to use a crane on the back of a truck ‘slinging loads’ and work the crane and truck myself.

2. A man who trains dogs for the bloodsport of dogfighting.
3. (cryptozoology) An alleged cryptid that is part man, part dog.
4. Alternative form of dog man

Translations

Anagrams

• godman

Esperanto

Adjective

dogman

1. accusative singular of dogma