Danishman

English Etymology From en Danish man. Noun Danishmen en rare A native or inhabitant of Denmark. en w:Francis Palgrave The History of Normandy and of England II London John W. Parker and Son 1862 162 Thus would the young Richard become a Danishman in all his tendencies, and, as years advanced and power encreased, a fatal foe to Christendom. en w:Wilford Woodruff Wilford Woodruff’s Journal, 1833-1898 a. 1898 1983 376 And the Eyes of all the Marshals was Closed By the power of God and all they saw was Jenson quite a smart Danishman and me an other old Codger of a Danishman. en Elva Richardson Shumway James & Anne Jacobson, Horticulturist + Dairymaid, & Family a. 1900 1994 194 But at a community dance he overheard an old Danishman say as I danced by, “Dot Beckie! She vill make some man some vonderful vife!” en E. E. C. Gomme The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle London George Bell and Sons 1909 185 The Danishmen believed that they would overcome the Frenchmen. en w:Alexander Toponce Reminiscences of Alexander Toponce, Pioneer, 1839-1923 c. 1919 1923 154–155 We would walk along to where some farmer, perhaps a Danishman, was holding his little herd of cattle in a corner of the tithing yard corral and he would jerk off his cap and say, “Dees haar bees my cattle, Beeshup.”And the Danishman would say, “aw! aw! Das is all right, Beeshup; I sell him.” en Jane Griffiths ‘Playing the Dolt in Print’: The Extemporary Glossing of Nashe’s Pierce Penilesse his Supplication to the Devil Diverting Authorities: Experimental Glossing Practices in Manuscript and Print w:Oxford University Press 2014 182 978-0-19-965451-2 Thus, when Pierce describes an archetypal Danishman as one who has ‘cheekes that sag like a womans dugs ouer his chin-bone, his apparel … puft vp with bladdres of Taffatie, and his back like biefe stuft with Parsly …’, the gloss continues in the same vein: ‘If you know him not by any of these marks, look on his fingers, & you shal be sure to find half a dozen siluer rings, worth thre pence a peece.’ Synonyms en Dane