noun
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Is dairyman gender-neutral? See -man.
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From it emerged a 64-year-old dairyman, burly and tan, who left the engine running as he lumbered toward me with open arms.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
For references, he listed the mayor, the butcher, the dairyman and the service station operator, and his mother signed papers saying that she wouldn’t request his early discharge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2024
The dedicated dairyman, who works in Basildon, said he used to help his local milkman as a child after being interested in the "community feel" of the job.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2024
Their target was not a dissident activist, but a dairyman nicknamed El Rey del Queso: The King of Cheese.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2021
It was the dairyman who gave me the hot idea.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
The son of dairy farmers and a former trustee of the local community college district, Nunes routinely won reelection by double-digit margins among the farmers and dairymen he grew up with.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2020
Home economists told women to choose stores that used individual packaging for food and get baby’s milk from dairies where dairymen were clean and washed their hands frequently—cost savings be damned.
From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2020
Munoz’s death, which occurred in the nearby town of Shelley last September, was one of two fatal accidents last year involving dairymen who either choked or drowned in pits of cow manure.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2017
He was only 28 when he won a hotly contested congressional seat, beating his Republican competitors in the 2002 primary by appealing to the concerns of ranchers and dairymen in his solidly conservative district.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 2017
They seem to have thought out an improvement on the present system by which certain dairymen are in the habit of washing their milk.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, June 2, 1920 by Various
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