Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A man who owns or manages a dairy.
- noun A man who works in a dairy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun dairymen (-men). One who keeps cows for the production of milk and butter, and sometimes cheese, or one who attends to the sale of dairy produce.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A man who keeps or takes care of a dairy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A man who works in a
dairy , or who delivers dairy products.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the owner or manager of a dairy
- noun a man who works in a dairy
Etymologies
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Examples
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This was too much, so calling the dairyman to the house I abused him roundly and threatened that if he did not send pure milk in future I would ask the consul to punish him severely.
Life and sport in China Second Edition Oliver George Ready
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Doubtless a dairyman is a more valuable citizen in the long run than a prospector or miner, but he does not so easily appeal to the imagination.
A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1900
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The story ranges from comedic to semi-tragic in the telling of the story of Tevye, a dairyman living in a shtetl in czarist Russia.
Joseph Stein, writer of Broadway's "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Zorba," dies at 98 Emma Brown 2010
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A maverick dairyman named Hein Hettinga started bottling his own milk and selling it for as much as 20 cents a gallon less than the competition, exercising his right to work outside the rigid system that has controlled U.S. milk production for almost 70 years.
Who is Harvesting Cash?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The Madison, Wis., symposium featured more than a dozen speakers, including Fresno, Calif., dairyman Mark McAfee, delivering the keynote titled "Raw milk as medicine Proudly violating FDA drug laws."
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Tevye the dairyman wonders if it would upset some colossal heavenly plan "If I were a rich man."
Rabbi Samuel April: Class Warfare?: No Class, No War, No Fair Rabbi Samuel April 2011
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Mary's father was a dairyman with a shop in Euston, so they had a little bit of a headstart; they had connections.
Great dynasties of the world: The Sainsburys Ian Sansom 2010
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Tevye the dairyman wonders if it would upset some colossal heavenly plan "If I were a rich man."
Rabbi Samuel April: Class Warfare?: No Class, No War, No Fair Rabbi Samuel April 2011
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As a fifth-generation dairyman, Cyrus Schwartz has milk in his blood.
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In the original production, Zero Mostel played the lead role of Tevye, a dairyman with five daughters, with unforgettable verve.
Jerry Bock, Broadway composer of 'Fiddler on the Roof, dies at 81 Matt Schudel 2010
hernesheir commented on the word dairyman
A half-gallon of whole milk in a glass bottle, please. Could you throw in a pint of sour cream, and a lb. of cottage cheese? (Yes, I grew up in a community when/where the dairyman delivered to the doorstep and placed the weekly/daily order in an aluminum box on the doorstep.)
January 4, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word dairyman
Wow! What about tits? Did they open your milk bottles?
January 4, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word dairyman
Alas, there were no tits, great, blue or otherwise in my country, so no milk bottles were opened by them. Despite this shortcoming, I do feel a certain measure of philopatry for the old home ground. Or is it patrophily?
January 4, 2009
sarra commented on the word dairyman
Milkman in England. Don't know if the connotations carry too…
January 5, 2009
dontcry commented on the word dairyman
We had a milkman when I was young (in the middle of the last century) in my hometown in western PA, USA. What I remember is the metal box just outside the front door. "Nichols' Dairy," it said, in red script with a flourish under "Dairy." So did the glass bottles of milk, capped with paper lids, that would appear every couple of days. When you put your finger into the bottle, it came up coated with cream! We began to move around the country, and then the world after that. No more milkman -- but in Germany and Italy, we had bottled water, soda, and beer delivered regularly to the house. Interesting.
January 5, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word dairyman
All the milkmen, milkers, milk transport truckers, etc. were members of the local trade association called...wait for it...."The Dairymen's Association". Each had coveralls and winter coats tricked out with a neat logo patch and a patch with their first name embroidered upon it. My best friend's father Arnold had a name patch that read "Pete". The first of several "Pete" Pedersen (or Peterson/Petersen) I've run across in my time. It baffled me as a child that his work nickname was on his uniform, since my dad was in the National Guard and they'd never give him a patch with anything besides his surname.
In truth, the fellow who left products on our doorstep was indeed called "the milkman", and the Wise Wordies have called out a distinction that my original post ignored. Perhaps my definition was colored by my knowledge of the Dairymen's Assoc. in my home town. Thanks Wordies for causing me to be more precise in my thinking and word listing!
January 5, 2009