polisman

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See also: polismän

English[edit]

Noun[edit]

polisman (plural polismen)

  1. (Scotland, Ireland) Policeman.
    • 2009, Sarah O’Connor, Christopher C. Shepard, Women, Social and Cultural Change in Twentieth Century Ireland, page 83:
      The march turned out not te be a real march at all on account of the fact that as soon as we tried te move aff from the Waterside station, all two thousand of us, we foun' our way blocked be a cordon of polismen lookin' wile fierce.
    • 2020, Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War, page 97:
      They wint again polismen, mostly. Mebbe that's because polismen's th' nearest things to kings they cud find.
    • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 188:
      Now all we need to establish is what a shooter belonging to one of Maitland's goons is doing in a polisman's locker.

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

polis (police) +‎ man (man)

Noun[edit]

polisman c

  1. a policeman, a police officer
    Synonym: polis

Declension[edit]

Declension of polisman 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative polisman polismannen polismän polismännen
Genitive polismans polismannens polismäns polismännens

References[edit]

Tok Pisin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English policeman.

Noun[edit]

polisman

  1. policeman