reporterman

reporterman
   ‘So, reporterman, what’s your story?’ is addressed to a newspaper reporter in The Island, by Peter Benchley. This form shows an alternative way of creating a professional vocative, other than using ‘Mr Reporter’. ‘Sailorman’, ‘soldierman’, etc., also occur.

A dictionary of epithets and terms of address . . 2015.

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  • -man —    Added by some speakers to professional descriptions in order to form a vocative. It is sometimes redundant, as in ‘sailorman’, ‘soldierman’, where ‘sailor’, ‘soldier’ would serve equally well. It is also added to words which would not normally …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

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