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scienceman

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Etymology

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From science +‎ man.

Noun

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scienceman (plural sciencemen)

  1. (rare, nonstandard) Synonym of scientist
    • 2015, D. S. Brown, Champion, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
      “The shipmind has harnessed as much thoughtpower as it can,” said the scienceman.
    • 2005, Donald Bruce Beard, Billie the Wind Discovers Bodie, Cal., iUniverse, →ISBN:
      Carl Ben had been called away for a trial of uncertain length, but the others eagerly anticipated the scienceman's observations.
    • 2011, James Patterson, The Big Bad Wolf, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
      The scienceman led him into a bedroom off the living-room area...
    • 1983, Frederick W. Gibson, Hilda Neatby, Queen's University, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, →ISBN, page 187:
      At the height of the fracas Principal Wallace came down from his office in the library and tried to address the sciencemen, only to be struck on the shoulder by a flour-bomb.
    • 2011, Tobias Churton, Aleister Crowley: The Biography, Duncan Baird Publishers, →ISBN:
      “Noble” was the sciencemen's epithet for him; for the others he was the man who eased the agony,...
    • 2013, Sean Platt, Johnny B. Truant, Unicorn Western: Full Saga: Books 1-9, Sterling & Stone:
      The problem was the poison soil, or so said the sciencemen.
    • 1991, The Astrological Magazine:
      In other words the hard-earned money of tax-payers like you and me who sweat it out 365 days a year not only to keep our body and soul together but also to keep our sciencemen in form.
    • 2006, B. Kojo Laing, Big Bishop Roko and the Altar Gangsters: A Novel, Woeli Pub Serv:
      Why not fight the sciencemen on their own-own[sic] ground?