Dustman

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One whose employment is the removal of dust, rubbish, or garbage.
  • noun. The genius of sleep in popular sayings and folklore: so named because the winking and eye-rubbing of a sleepy child are as if he had dust in his eyes.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One whose employment is to remove dirt and refuse; a garbage man.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Someone whose job it is to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse
  • Word Usage
    "And, although shunted into the part at short notice, Michael Feast catches Alfred Doolittle's transition from happily drunken dustman to respectable middle-class morality: like his daughter, in fact, he is both victim, and beneficiary, of Higgins's caprice."
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