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English
Etymology
From Danish + -man.
Noun
Danishman (plural Danishmen)
- (rare) A native or inhabitant of Denmark.
1862, Francis Palgrave, The History of Normandy and of England, volume II, London: John W. Parker and Son, page 162:Thus would the young Richard become a Danishman in all his tendencies, and, as years advanced and power encreased, a fatal foe to Christendom.
a. 1898, Wilford Woodruff, Wilford Woodruff’s Journal, 1833-1898, published 1983, page 376:And the Eyes of all the Marshals was Closed By the power of God and all they saw was Jenson quite a smart Danishman and me an other old Codger of a Danishman.
a. 1900, Elva Richardson Shumway, editor, James & Anne Jacobson, Horticulturist + Dairymaid, & Family, published 1994, page 194:But at a community dance he overheard an old Danishman say as I danced by, “Dot Beckie! She vill make some man some vonderful vife!”
1909, E. E. C. Gomme, transl., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, London: George Bell and Sons, page 185:The Danishmen believed that they would overcome the Frenchmen.
c. 1919, Alexander Toponce, Reminiscences of Alexander Toponce, Pioneer, 1839-1923, published 1923, pages 154–155:We would walk along to where some farmer, perhaps a Danishman, was holding his little herd of cattle in a corner of the tithing yard corral and he would jerk off his cap and say, “Dees haar bees my cattle, Beeshup.” […] And the Danishman would say, “aw! aw! Das is all right, Beeshup; I sell him.”
2014, Jane Griffiths, “‘Playing the Dolt in Print’: The Extemporary Glossing of Nashe’s Pierce Penilesse his Supplication to the Devil”, in Diverting Authorities: Experimental Glossing Practices in Manuscript and Print, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 182:Thus, when Pierce describes an archetypal Danishman as one who has ‘cheekes that sag like a womans dugs ouer his chin-bone, his apparel … puft vp with bladdres of Taffatie, and his back like biefe stuft with Parsly …’, the gloss continues in the same vein: ‘If you know him not by any of these marks, look on his fingers, & you shal be sure to find half a dozen siluer rings, worth thre pence a peece.’
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