Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A leader, especially a political leader.
- noun A soldier designated as a guide or model for a company's maneuvers or drills.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A soldier specially expert and well drilled, who takes his place in front of a military company as an example or model to the others in their exercises; a file-leader.
- noun Hence One who takes the initiative in any movement, and sets an example for others to follow; particularly, one who acts as the mouthpiece or in the interest of another or others; a ringleader.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mil.) A soldier especially expert and well drilled, who takes his place in front of a military company, as a guide for the others in their exercises; a file leader. He originally stood in front of the right wing.
- noun Jocose Hence, one who leads the way.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The member of a
military group wholeads the way ordemonstrates drill - noun by extension A
political leader , or aringleader
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a leader and organizer and spokesman (especially a political leader)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A vote of thanks to the government, and three times three cheers, with Mr. Cobden as "fugleman," ended the great Peace Congress of 1849.
Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met William Wells Brown
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A vote of thanks to the government, and three times three cheers, with Mr. Cobden as "fugleman," ended the great Peace Congress of 1849.
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A vote of thanks to the government, and three times three cheers, with Mr. Cobden as "fugleman," ended the great Peace Congress of 1849.
Three Years in Europe; or, Places I have Seen and People I have Met. 1852
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Besides the old "fugleman", there were several other patriarchs, who now advanced into the water to perform the office of fishermen.
In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Imám, artistes or fugleman, lit. “one who stands before others;” and his bows and prostrations give the time to the congregation.
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David Brooks, as loyal an administration fugleman as you will find, asks, Would it be illegal for more people on the left to actually be happy that a story slurring Americans may turn out to be unproven?
rotten fruit 2005
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Whenever he varied this attitude in the slightest degree — so much as by the gentlest motion of his arm — the uproar was certain to increase, not merely there, but in the lobby below; from which place no doubt, some man who acted as fugleman to the rest, was constantly looking up and watching him.
Barnaby Rudge 2007
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‘One cheer more,’ screamed the little fugleman in the balcony, and out shouted the mob again, as if lungs were cast – iron, with steel works.
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Bellston was as shy, or rather as averse, as any of the tenantry themselves, to acting the part of fugleman.
A Changed Man 2006
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When I looked round, I saw that treacherous villain, Hunsden acting as fugleman.
vera commented on the word fugleman
not to be confused with fugly-man.
October 18, 2007
bilby commented on the word fugleman
Great comment by vera :-)
December 20, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word fugleman
"FUGLEMAN or flugleman is the soldier who stands in front of a squad to give the motions." (citation in list description)
October 9, 2008