glassblower

English

Etymology

From glass +‎ blower.

Noun

glassblower (plural glassblowers)

1. A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎^[1]:

     But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.

Synonyms

• gaffer, glassmith

Translations

person skilled in the art of glassblowing

• Bulgarian: стъклодув m (stǎkloduv)
• Catalan: bufador de vidre m, bufadora de vidre f
• Czech: sklář (cs) m
• Danish: glaspuster c, glasblæser c
• Esperanto: (male or female) vitroblovisto, (male) virvitroblovisto, (female) vitroblovistino
• Finnish: lasinpuhaltaja
• French: souffleur de verre (fr) m, souffleuse de verre f
• German: Glasbläser (de) m, Glasbläserin (de) f
• Irish: séidire gloine m
• Italian: buffatore m
• Kazakh: шыны үрлеуші (şyny ürleuşı)
• Luxembourgish: Glasbléiser m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: glassblåser m

  Nynorsk: glasblåsar m

• Ottoman Turkish: شیشه‌جی (şişeci)
• Polish: bańkarz m
• Romanian: suflător de sticlă m, sticlar (ro) m
• Russian: стеклоду́в (ru) m (steklodúv)
• Spanish: soplador m, sopladora (es) f
• Swedish: glasblåsare (sv) c
• Turkish: şişeci (tr)
• Ukrainian: склоду́в m (sklodúv)
• Volapük: (♂♀) glätibladan (vo), (♂) glätihibladan, (♀) glätijibladan
• Welsh: chwythwr gwydr m