dustman
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dustmen
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Origin of dustman
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He took a year out to apply to study law, during which he worked as a dustman, on a kibbutz and as a ballpoint pen salesman in South Africa.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025
"My daughter has been trying to teach me all of these words like rizz and wasteman which I now understand is not a dustman but rather a waste of space."
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2024
She said they could get smitten with “the dustman, the postman, the butcher or the prime minister. It happens to be about the people.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2017
And each spinner must give the impression that it is a new organisation, not the trash the dustman left behind.
From Economist ● May 2, 2013
Squelch's dad's only a dustman but his garden's like a National Trust property.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
The following weekend, Robin and I have our first big fire, disposing of all the rubbish that the dustmen have refused to deal with.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2010
After the big day was past, thousands tramped the coronation route, through tattered paper arches and bedraggled festoons, while dustmen recovered tons of paper and empty bottles.
From Time Magazine Archive
And at all times he was ready to mix freely and on terms of social equality with all who shared his sympathies, dukes and dustmen, Cabinet ministers and costermongers.
From Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies by George Henry Blore
THE national dustmen, after entertaining one another with a great many noisy little fights among themselves, had dispersed for the present, and Mr. Gradgrind was at home for the vacation.
From Hard Times by Charles Dickens
There were also two dustmen with a cart clearing up rubbish and bits of newspaper, and a water-man watering the asphalt, and some postmen outside the Post Office loading a mail-van.
From Half-Past Bedtime by H. H. Bashford
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