lumberjack

English

Etymology

lumber +‎ jack, of Canadian origin.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlʌm.bɚ.d͡ʒæk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlʌm.bə.d͡ʒæk/

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Noun

lumberjack (plural lumberjacks)

1. A person whose work is to fell trees.

   Synonyms: faller, feller, (contemporary) logger, lumberman, woodcutter

   • 1975 [1969], “The Lumberjack Song”, performed by Monty Python:

     He's a lumberjack and he's OK / He sleeps all night and works all day / I cut down trees, I eat my lunch / I go to the lavatory

2. A lumberjacket.

Derived terms

• lumberjack breakfast
• lumberjacket
• lumberjack shirt
• lumbersexual
• urban lumberjack

Translations

person who fells trees

• Albanian: druvar (sq) m
• Arabic: حَطَّاب m (ḥaṭṭāb)
• Armenian: անտառահատ (hy) (antaṙahat), ծառահատ (hy) (caṙahat), փայտահատ (hy) (pʻaytahat)
• Aromanian: limnar m
• Assamese: খৰিকটীয়া (khorikotia)
• Azerbaijani: odunçu
• Belarusian: лесару́б m (ljesarúb), драўні́к m (draŭník), дрывасе́к m (dryvasjék)
• Bulgarian: дървосека́ч (bg) m (dǎrvosekáč), дърва́р (bg) m (dǎrvár)
• Catalan: llenyataire (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 伐木工 (zh) (fámùgōng)

• Czech: dřevorubec (cs) m
• Danish: skovhugger c
• Dutch: houthakker (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: arbohakisto
• Estonian: puuraidur
• Faroese: skóghøggari m
• Finnish: metsuri (fi)
• French: bûcheron (fr) m
• Galician: leñador m, fragueiro m
• Georgian: ტყისმჭრელი (ṭq̇ismč̣reli)
• German: Holzfäller (de) m, Holzfällerin (de) f
• Greek: ξυλοκόπος (el) m (xylokópos)

  Ancient: ξυλοκόπος m (xulokópos)

• Hindi: लकड़हारा (hi) m (lakaṛhārā)
• Hungarian: favágó (hu)
• Icelandic: skógarhöggsmaður m
• Irish: lománaí m
• Italian: boscaiolo (it) m, tagliaboschi m
• Japanese: 樵 (ja) (きこり, kikori), 木こり (きこり, kikori)
• Kashubian: rãbca m
• Kazakh: ағаш кесуші (ağaş kesuşı), отыншы (otynşy)
• Korean: 나무꾼 (ko) (namukkun)
• Kyrgyz: отунчу (otuncu)
• Latin: lignātor m
• Latvian: kokcirtējs m
• Lithuanian: medkirtys m
• Macedonian: дрвосечач m (drvosečač), дрвар m (drvar)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tømmerhugger (no) m

• Old English: wuduhēawere m
• Ottoman Turkish: اوطونجی (oduncu)
• Persian: چوب‌بر (fa) (čub-bor)
• Polish: drwal (pl) m
• Portuguese: lenhador (pt), madeireiro m
• Romanian: lemnar (ro) m
• Russian: лесору́б (ru) m (lesorúb), дровосе́к (ru) m (drovosék), ва́льщик ле́са m (válʹščik lésa)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дрво̀сеча m, дрво̀сјеча m

  Roman: drvòseča m, drvòsječa (sh) m

• Slovak: drevorubač (sk) m
• Slovene: drvar m
• Spanish: leñador (es) m, talador (es) m
• Swedish: skogshuggare (sv) c
• Tagalog: magkakahoy
• Tajik: ҳезум-бур (hezum-bur), ҳезумкаш (hezumkaš)
• Turkish: oduncu (tr), ormancı (tr)
• Ugaritic: 𐎃𐎉𐎁 (ḫṭb)
• Ukrainian: лісору́б m (lisorúb), дровору́б m (drovorúb)
• Venetian: boschier (vec) m, buschier m
• Vietnamese: tiều phu (vi)
• Walloon: bokion (wa) m, boskiyon (wa) m, abateu (wa) m
• Welsh: coedwigwr m, cymynwr coed m
• Yiddish: האָלצהעקער m (holtsheker)

lumberjacket — see lumberjacket

Verb

lumberjack (third-person singular simple present lumberjacks, present participle lumberjacking, simple past and past participle lumberjacked)

1. (transitive) To work as a lumberjack, cutting down trees.
   • 2009 July 28, John Branch, “Going Way of Old Growth”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Many of the lumberjacking memories have faded to black and white, the brightest moments colored mostly by Jim McKay’s yellow blazer.

See also

• lumbermill