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dustman¹

Where it comes from

From dust + -man, as household refuse previously consisted largely of ashes (dust) from domestic fires.

noun dustmen

  1. UK A person employed to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed. Oh, my old man's a dustman He wears a dustman’s hat He wears cor-blimey trousers And he lives in a council flat.

    Similar: bin man, garbage collector, garbage man, garbo, refuse collector, sanitation engineer, trashman, ashman, binman, dustman, garbageman, trash man

Dustman²

Where it comes from

Variant spelling of Northern German Dustmann.

proper noun Dustmans

  1. A surname from German.

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"dustman." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/dustman. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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dustman. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/dustman

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"dustman." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/dustman.

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@misc{dustman_2026,
  title = {dustman},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dustman},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}