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goodman
English
Alternative forms
- gomman (dialectal)
- gudeman
Etymology
From Middle English godeman, equivalent to good +? man.
Noun
goodman (plural goodmen)
- (now rare, chiefly Scotland) A familiar appellation of civility. [from 10th c.]
- (now Scotland or historical) A husband; the master of a house or family. [from 13th c.]
- Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey.
References
- goodman in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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woodman
English
Etymology
From Middle English woodeman, wodeman, from Old English wudemann, wudumann (“woodman”), equivalent to wood +? -man.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?w?dm?n/
Noun
woodman (plural woodmen)
- (obsolete) Someone who hunts animals in a wood, hunter, huntsman.
- c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act III, Scene 6,[1]
- You, Polydote, have proved best woodman and
- Are master of the feast: Cadwal and I
- Will play the cook and servant; ’tis our match:
- The sweat of industry would dry and die,
- But for the end it works to.
- c. 1611, John Fletcher, The Woman’s Prize, Act IV, Scene 3, in Comedies and Tragedies Written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Gentlemen, London: H. Robinson & H. Moseley, 1647, p. 116,[2]
- How daintily, and cunningly you drive me
- Up like a Deere to’th toyle, yet I may leape it,
- And what’s the woodman then?
- 1636, Robert Sanderson, Ad Aulam. The Fourth Sermon, Beuvoyr, July, 1636 in XXXVI Sermons, London, 8th edition, 1689, p. 413,[3]
- And to get the Mastery over they self in great matters, it will behove thee to exercise this Discipline first in lesser things: as he that would be a skilful Wood-man, will exercise himself thereunto first by shooting sometimes at a dead mark.
- c. 1609, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act III, Scene 6,[1]
- Someone who cuts down trees or cuts and sells wood, lumberjack, woodcutter.
- 1718, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintot, Book 16, p. 267,[4]
- As thro’ the shrilling Vale, or Mountain Ground,
- The Labours of the Woodman’s Axe resound;
- Blows following Blows are heard re-echoing wide,
- While crackling Forests fall on ev’ry side.
- Thus echo’d all the Fields with loud Alarms,
- So fell the Warriors, and so rung their Arms.
- 1843, George Pope Morris, “Woodman, Spare That Tree” in The Deserted Bride; and Other Poems, New York: Appleton, p. 39,[5]
- Woodman, spare that tree!
- Touch not a single bough!
- In youth it shelter’d me,
- And I’ll protect it now.
- ’Twas my forefather’s hand
- That placed it near his cot;
- There, woodman, let it stand,
- Thy axe shall harm it not!
- 1862, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Woodman and the Nightingale” (written in 1818 and published posthumously) in Richard Garnett (editor), Relics of Shelley, London: Edward Moxon, p. 79,[6]
- The world is full of woodmen who expel
- Love’s gentle dryads from the haunts of life,
- And vex the nightingales in every dell.
- 1718, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintot, Book 16, p. 267,[4]
- Someone who lives in the wood and manages it; a woodsman; (by extension) someone who spends time in the woods and has a strong familiarity with that environment.
- 1800, William Wordsworth, “Poems on the Naming of Places V” in Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems, London: Longman & Rees, Volume 2, p. 195,[7]
- Our walk was far among the ancient trees:
- There was no road, nor any wood-man’s path,
- But the thick umbrage, checking the wild growth
- Of weed and sapling […]
- 1908, Robert Barr, Cardillac, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 4th edition, 1909, Chapter 14,[8]
- “It is strange,” muttered Cardillac, “that so loud a roar in the forest at night should give such little indication of direction. I suppose a true woodman could not only point towards the spot, but might estimate the distance as well. I seem to be a very fool of the forest.”
- 1990, Pamela Redmond Satran, “Ireland with kids: The fairy tale comes alive,” Washington Post, 15 July, 1990,[9]
- One afternoon, I went with Mrs. Salter-Townshend on a tour of all her rental properties, which ranged from a woodman’s cottage on the old Somerville estate to a tower in the harbor-front castle.
- 1997, J. M. Coetzee, Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life, New York: Penguin, Chapter Three, p. 15,
- The second examination is for a woodman’s badge. To pass, he is required to light a fire, using no paper and striking no more than three matches.
- 1800, William Wordsworth, “Poems on the Naming of Places V” in Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems, London: Longman & Rees, Volume 2, p. 195,[7]
- (obsolete) Someone who lives in the woods and is considered to be uncivilized or barbaric, a savage.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book III, Canto 10, Stanza 40, p. 554[10]
- […] yonder in that faithfull wildernesse
- Huge monsters haunt, and many dangers dwell;
- Dragons, and Minotaures, and feendes of hell,
- And many wilde woodmen, which robbe & rend
- All traveilers […]
- 1909, Maurice Hewlett, “Leto’s Child” in Artemision: Idylls and Songs, London: Elkin Mathews, p. 30,[11]
- There between the trees
- The prying Fauns and Woodmen dark
- And prick-ear’d Satyrs her did mark,
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book III, Canto 10, Stanza 40, p. 554[10]
- Someone who makes things from wood. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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