different between postman vs fiddler

English

Etymology

post +? -man

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??sm?n/, /?p??stm?n/

Noun

postman (plural postmen)

1. (chiefly Britain) someone (implied male) who delivers the post (mail) to, and/or collects the post from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes.
2. One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions, so called from the place where he sits, the other of the two being the tubman.
   • 1835, James Whishaw, A Synopsis of the Members of the English Bar

     Postman of the Court of Exchequer.

Synonyms

• (one who delivers the post): mailman

Antonyms

• mailwoman, mail lady, postwoman, post lady

Hypernyms

• (one who delivers the post): mail carrier, letter carrier, postal carrier, mailperson, postperson

Translations

Anagrams

• tampons, topsman

English

Etymology

From Middle English fiþelere, from Old English fiþelere, from fiþele. Equivalent to fiddle +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?d?l?(?)/, /?f?dl?(?)/

Noun

fiddler (plural fiddlers)

1. One who plays the fiddle.
2. One who fiddles.
   • 2005, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The drama of my life (in The Independent online, [1])

     We were the self-controlled, cautious, nifty merchants, decorous fiddlers of accounts, hoarders of wealth, excellent bribers, family and community creatures governed by manners.

3. A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle.
4. The common European sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos); so called because it habitually wags its tail up and down resembling the back and forth movement of a fiddler.
5. A large species of cicada, Macrotristria angularis, of eastern Australia; cherry nose.

Synonyms

• fiddlist, fiddleist (both dated)

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Friddle