cabman
English
Etymology
Noun
cabman (plural cabmen)
- The driver of a hackney cab.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 22
- At length we saw a four-wheeler drive up. Out of it, in leisurely fashion, got Lord Godalming and Morris. And down from the box descended a thick-set working man with his rush-woven basket of tools. Morris paid the cabman, who touched his hat and drove away.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 22
- The driver of a taxi.
- 1933, George Orwell, chapter XIV, in Down and Out in Paris and London[1]:
- A girl in the bakery, aged sixteen, used oaths that would have defeated a cabman.