plumber
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plumber
- /ˈplʌm.ə/ British, UK, Southern
- /ˈplʊm.ə/ Northern England
- /ˈplʌm.əɾ/ Scotland
- /ˈplʌm.əɹ/ US
- /ˈplɐm.ə/ Australia, New Zealand
- /ˈplʌm.bʌɾ/ India
- /ˈplʌm.bɜː/ India
- /ˈplʌ.mɜː/ India
Sounds like Plummer (except India) · Rhymes with -ʌmə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle English plumber, from Old French plummier (French plombier); from Latin plumbārius, from plumbum (“lead or lead shot”).
The verb sense “to botch” is perhaps from the negative stereotype of the occupation.
noun plumber ] · plumbers
- One who works in or with lead.
- One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage. Mario and Luigi's profession is plumbers.
- A person who investigates or prevents leaks of information. It involved the break-in of the office of Mr. Lewis Fielding, Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, by the White House “plumbers.”
- 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.
- A urologist. […] began the month with an operation at St. Joseph Hospital in Aurora, Ill. His surgeon, by the way, was a "plumber” – urologist.
verb plumbers · plumbering · plumbered
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To botch or ruin.
There is nothing to work him into a fine feeling of agony and despair like an exam scheduled for the next day, or a paper to write, or a concert in which he is to sing. Wish him the top of the morning when he is looking forward to one of these events, and then hear the woeful story of how badly he i
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To work as a plumber.
Joe Staudinger plumbered so well that on Saturday night boiling water came from both hot and cold faucets.
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To work on (something) as a plumber.
PIPES PLUMBERED BY US stay plumbered till they wear out. No leaky joints or splitting follow our work. How about the pipes on your steam or hot water heater? Don’t they need repacking or perhaps replacing? HAVE US LOOK AT THEM NOW.
Similar: plumber up
- To do, work, devise (something). Q. [Mr. Goodman] At the period of time we have spoken of, that strike settled down, did it not, in 1910 and 1911, and there was no strike? A. [Fred C. Schanberger] No. Q. What happened to the Vaudeville Managers’ Co-operative Association’s activities at that time? A. Oh, they kind of plumbered it al
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To equip (something) with plumbing.
How many times should a bathroom be “plumbered”? IT should be “plumbered” once more if it is an old bathroom of the tin-tub, iron-pipe era. Call in your plumber and have him rip out the old, unsanitary fixtures and the rusting iron or steel pipe and put in modern fixtures connected with good brass p
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Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: pipe fitter, plumbing, plumer, pipelayer, pipeworker, pipe-layer, pipeliner, plunger, pipefitter, plater, plower, plummeter, plasterer, leadswinger, leadsman, ladleman
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noun one who works in lead
| Español | plomero |
|---|---|
| Português | chumbeiro |
| Français | plombeur |
| Deutsch | Bleiarbeiter, Bleiarbeiterin |
| Română | plumbar |
noun one who fits, etc, pipes for water, gas or drainage
| Español | fontanero, gásfiter, gasfitero, plomero, tubero |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 배관공 baegwan'gong, 연관공 yeon'gwan'gong |
| 日本語 | 配管工 haikankō, 鉛管工 enkankō |
| 中文 | 水管工 Shuǐguǎngōng, 管子工 guǎnzigōng, 鉛管工 /铅管工 qiānguǎngōng, 水暖工 shuǐnuǎngōng |
| हिन्दी | कसेरा kaserā, नलकार nalkār, नलसाज़ nalsāz, प्लंबर plambar |
| Kiswahili | fundi bomba |
| Português | encanador, canalizador |
| Français | plombier, tuyauteur, homme à pipe |
| Deutsch | Klempner, Klempnerin, Installateur, Spengler |
| Italiano | idraulico |
| Ελληνικά | υδραυλικός ydravlikós |
| Română | tinichigiu, instalator |
| Русский | водопрово́дчик vodoprovódčik, санте́хник santéxnik |
| Tiếng Việt | thợ sửa ống nước |
| العربية | سَبَّاك sabbāk |
| עברית | שְׁרַבְרַב shravráv |
Talk about this word "plumber." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/plumber. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. plumber. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/plumber "plumber." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/plumber.Cite this
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title = {plumber},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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