colourman

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A man who sells (and, formerly, prepares) an artist's paints.
    — The Least, my Colourman will run away with, is fifty pounds per annum; my house with taxes stand me at least in Seventy […].
  2. A commentator employed to provide background information, analysis, etc., on a given news or sports event. UK

词形变化

colourmen plural color man alternative,US colorman alternative,US colour man alternative,UK

词源

Etymology tree
English colour
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English colourman
From colour + -man.
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