nightman
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A person whose job is cleaning cesspools or sewers, or emptying privies by night.
— Near-synonym: shit-carter
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A male night shift worker.
— Most men who are of sufficient intelligence and moral character to make thoroughly satisfactory block signalmen will naturally seek a respite occasionally from such a confining routine, and if they cannot accomplish this without securing a substitute at their own expense they are under constant temptation to “change off”—the day man working for the nightman and the nightman for the day.
- A nightwatchman; a guard who works at night.
词汇关系
词源
From night + -man.
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