alderman
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See also: Alderman
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English alderman, aldermon, from Old English ealdorman, ealdormann, from ealdor (“elder, parent, chief, prince, author”) + mann (“person”). See ealdorman.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file) - Hyphenation: al‧der‧man
Noun
[edit]alderman (plural aldermen)
- A member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town.
- (UK, historical, obsolete slang) A half-crown coin; its value, 30 pence.
- 1859, Snowden's magistrates assistant, page 90:
- The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence.
- 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words:
- Half-a-crown is known as an alderman, half a bull, half a tusheroon, and a madza caroon; whilst a crown piece, or five shillings, may be called either a bull, or a caroon, or a cartwheel, or a coachwheel, or a thick-un, or a tusheroon.
- A long pipe for smoking.
- 1843, John William Carleton, The Sporting Review, volume 10, page 419:
- In one part of Cockaigne an amalgamation of these two last has lately taken place; and the pleasure experienced by the parishioners of Walbrook is unbounded when smoking an alderman and churchwarden.
- (US, slang) A potbelly, paunch.
- 1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 13, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan,:
- He'd exercise, get the fat off, because if he let it go, he'd have too much on and maybe make his heart worse, and you looked like hell with an alderman. … And she wouldn't want a guy who stuck out in front like a balloon.
Synonyms
[edit]- baillie (Scotland)
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town
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Further reading
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[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English alderman.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]alderman m (plural aldermans)
Further reading
[edit]- “alderman”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old Frisian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]alderman m
Inflection
[edit]Declension of alderman (masculine consonant stem) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | alderman | aldermen |
genitive | aldermannes | aldermanna |
dative | aldermanne | aldermannum, aldermannem |
accusative | alderman | aldermen |
Descendants
[edit]- West Frisian: âlderman
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