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单词 cabman
释义

cabman

English

Etymology

cab + -man

Noun

cabman (plural cabmen)

  1. The driver of a hackney cab.
    • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 22
      At length we saw a four-wheeler drive up. Out of it, in leisurely fashion, got Lord Godalming and Morris. And down from the box descended a thick-set working man with his rush-woven basket of tools. Morris paid the cabman, who touched his hat and drove away.
  2. The driver of a taxi.
    • 1933, George Orwell, chapter XIV, in Down and Out in Paris and London:
      A girl in the bakery, aged sixteen, used oaths that would have defeated a cabman.

Synonyms

  • cabdriver
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