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• shummaker (East Anglia, obsolete)

語源

From 中期英語 shomaker, equivalent to shoe +‎ maker. Compare Dutch schoenmaker, German Schuhmacher, Danish skomager.

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名詞

shoemaker (plural shoemakers)

1. A person who makes shoes.

   Synonym: cordwainer (archaic)

   Coordinate term: cobbler (mender versus maker)

   • 1833, Arabella Sullivan, Recollections of a Chaperon‎, volume 1, London: Richard Bentley, page 229:

     He especially recommended the only shoemaker who, to his mind, had an idea of making a shoe; and Lucy had at least half-a-dozen pair made, fitted, and descanted upon, before he was satisfied that they did justice to the shape of her foot, which proved extremely good when it was properly chaussé.

   • 1911 October, W. R. D., “Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General’s Office, United States Army. Authors and Subjects. Second Series, Vol. XV. S—Skin Grafting. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1910.)”, in American Journal of Insanity, volume LXVIII, number 2, page 327:

     The diseases of shoemakers receive attention as well as the toxicology of shoepolish.

2. The threadfish.
3. A fish, Elagatis pinnulatis, the runner.

派生語

• the shoemaker always wears the worst shoes
• the shoemaker's children go barefoot