packman

[ pak-muhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural pack·men.

Origin of packman¹

First recorded in 1615–25; pack ¹ + -man

You wad think she never had heard o' Willie Broonclod, the packman, that she sloped when she left doon the country.

I'm witty at the expense of this poor packman; but, seriously, Katherine Kennedy must carry off her lover.

I have as good a right to scholarship as my brother packman, Plato, who carried oil to Egypt.

Good Master Packman, do of your grace tell me how a maid should earn that jewel?

When he remembered he had been a packman in England it was exceedingly fine.

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