coffeeman

See also: coffee man and coffee-man

English

Alternative forms

• coffee man, coffee-man
• coffaman (archaic)

Etymology

coffee +‎ -man

Noun

coffeeman (plural coffeemen)

1. (dated) A man who keeps a coffeehouse; the owner of a coffeehouse.
   • 1615, George Sandys, A Relation of a Iourney begun An: Dom: 1610, I 66:

     ...many of the Coffamen keeping beaytifull boyes, who ſerue as ſtales to procure them cuſtomers.

2. A person who makes coffee in an establishment, or on a ship etc.

   Synonym: (obsolete) coffeemaker

   • 1999, Kristen Iversen, Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth‎^[1], page 15:

     In their cabin, Miss Martin and Miss Bowker were interrupted by a knock on the door. “Women up on the boat deck!” the voice cried. “Get your lifebelts!” There was no time to change clothes; each girl grabbed a wrapper and cloak. As they dashed down the passageway they looked back to their colleagues, all male: the French waiters, chef, chef's assistants, bakers, sauce makers, fish cooks, wine butlers, barmen, coffeemen, soup cook, and sculleryman.

Related terms

• coffeewoman

Translations

Translations

• Arabic: قَهْوَجِيّ m (qahwajiyy)

  Hijazi Arabic: قَهْوَجي m (gahwaji)

• Azerbaijani: qəhvəçi
• Bulgarian: кафеджи́я m (kafedžíja)
• French: cafetier (fr) m
• Greek: καφετζής (el) m (kafetzís)
• Ottoman Turkish: قهوه‌جی (ḳahveci)
• Romanian: cafegiu (ro) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кафеџија m

  Latin: kafedžija (sh) m

• Swedish: kaffekokare (sv) c (obsolete)
• Turkish: kahveci (tr)
• Uzbek: qahvachi (uz)