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noun
One who mans a booth, such as at a fair or (historically) a Thing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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noun
A corn merchant, especially one in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, dialectal
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noun
A projectionist at a movie theater.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From booth + -man. Cognate with Scots buthman (“a shop-keeper”). In some cases, such as translations of Norse sagas, use of the word (to mean "one who mans a booth") was probably reinforced by the cognate Old Norse búðarmaðr (Icelandic búðarmaður).
