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bathman

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English

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Etymology

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From bath +‎ -man.

Noun

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bathman (plural bathmen)

  1. A male attendant at a bathhouse.
    • 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 75:
      [H]e described the speech of the charwoman washing the hotel stairs and gave lists of words collected from the bathmen.