glueman

English

Etymology

glue +‎ -man

Noun

glueman (plural gluemen)

1. (rare) A man who manufactures or uses glue.
   • 1878, Mark Sibley Severance, Hammersmith: His Harvard Days, page 276:

     [H]e had despatched a brief note to Miss Darby by the omnipresent youngster Glue, — runner of errands, and mender of broken furniture by aid of effective glue-pot […] Miss Darby was just about starting off by herself when the young glueman arrived with Tom's note.

   • 1986, The DeKalb Literary Arts Journal, volumes 19-20, page 27:

     Your pruned cheeks twitched / When we counted the coins / Using your still fingers to separate / The shiny from the copper / Which the glueman paid for the horse.

   • 1998, James Chapman, The British at War: Cinema, State and Propaganda, 1939-45, page 240:

     They find the village of Chillingbourne being terrorised by the 'glueman', a nocturnal figure who pours glue into the hair of girls consorting with servicemen.