plumber

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French plummier (French plombier); from Latin plumbārius, from plumbum (“lead or lead shot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplʌmə/
• Rhymes: -ʌmə(r)
• Homophone: Plummer

Noun

plumber (plural plumbers)

1. One who works in or with lead.
2. One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage.
   1. One who installs piping for potable and waste water.
3. A person who investigates or prevents leaks of information
4. (British, informal) In the Royal Navy, an apprentice, a boy aged 16 to 18, who is trained in technical skills at the Dockyard Schools to become an artificer.
5. (medicine, slang) A urologist.
   • 1958, Father Provincial Assumption B.V.M. Monastery, The Chronicle (volumes 12-13, page 39)

     […] began the month with an operation at St. Joseph Hospital in Aurora, Ill. His surgeon, by the way, was a "plumber” – urologist.

   • 1983, Toni Martin, How to Survive Medical School (page 127)

     Within surgery, the "cleaner" specialties, such as cardiac and neurosurgery, outrank the plumbers (urologists) and proctologists.

Derived terms

Terms derived from plumber

• plumber block
• plumber's cleavage

• plumber's crack
• plumber's helper

• plumber's snake
• plumbery

Related terms

• plumbing

Translations

one who works in lead

• Dutch: loodgieter (nl) m
• Esperanto: plumbisto
• Finnish: lyijytyöntekijä
• French: (obsolete) plombeur (fr) m
• German: Bleiarbeiter, Bleiarbeiterin f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: (obsolete, lead pipes) 鉛管工 (enkan-kō)
• Latin: plumbārius m
• Romanian: plumbar m (obsolete)
• Spanish: plomero m

one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage

• Afrikaans: loodgieter
• Arabic: سَبَّاك (ar) m (sabbāk)
• Basque: iturgin (eu)
• Burmese: ရေပိုက်သမား (repuiksa.ma:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 管子工 (zh) (guǎnzigōng), 鉛管工／铅管工 (zh) (qiānguǎngōng), 铅管工 (zh) (qiānguǎngōng), 水暖工 (zh) (shuǐnuǎngōng)

• Danish: blikkenslager c
• Dutch: loodgieter (nl) m
• Esperanto: tubisto, plumbisto
• Estonian: torumees, turulukksepp
• Finnish: putkimies (fi) (male); putkiasentaja (neutral)
• French: plombier (fr) m, tuyauteur (fr) m
• Georgian: მეწყალსადენე (mec̣q̇alsadene)
• German: Klempner (de) m, Klempnerin (de) f
• Greek: υδραυλικός (el) m (ydravlikós)
• Hungarian: vízvezeték-szerelő (hu)
• Icelandic: pípari m
• Italian: idraulico (it) m
• Japanese: 配管工 (はいかんこう, haikankō)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: plumbārius m
• Lithuanian: santechnikas m
• Macedonian: водоводџија f (vodovoddžija), водоинстала́тер m (vodoinstaláter)
• Maltese: plamer
• Maori: kaiaka kōrere
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rørlegger (no) m

  Nynorsk: røyrleggjar m

• Polish: hydraulik (pl) m
• Portuguese: encanador (pt) m
• Romanian: tinichigiu (ro) m, instalator (ro) m
• Russian: водопрово́дчик (ru) m (vodoprovódčik), санте́хник (ru) m (santéxnik)
• Spanish: fontanero m (Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua), gásfiter m (Chile), gasfitero m (Ecuador, Peru), plomero m (Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Uruguay)
• Swedish: rörmokare (sv) c
• Tagalog: tubero (tl)
• Vietnamese: thợ sữa ống nước
• Volapük: rüdan m or f, hirüdan m, jirüdan f

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Translations to be checked

• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 배관공 (ko) (baegwan'gong)
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References

• Corpun.com, a specialized website on Corporal Punishments [1]

Anagrams

• replumb

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) plumber

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of plumbō