Amishman

English

Etymology

From Amish +‎ -man.

Noun

Amishman (plural Amishmen)

1. A male member of the Amish.
   • 1979, Communes, Historical and Contemporary, page 248:

     One shop featured life-like mice imported from Germany and dressed as Old Order Amishmen.

   • 1994, Thomas J. Meyers, “Lunch Pails and Factories”, in Donald B. Kraybill, Marc A. Olshan, editors, The Amish Struggle with Modernity, Hanover, London: University Press of New England, →ISBN, page 172:

     Most Amishmen work in plants that are nearby their homes.

   • 2010 June 12, Michael Rubinkam, “Law putting puppy mills out of business”, in Republican Herald, page 5:

     Peachey, 43, an Amishman who lives with his wife and seven children on a three-acre spread in Belleville, said he thought long and hard about whether he wanted to remain in the business of breeding and selling Yorkshire and Boston terriers, Maltese, and “morkies” (a trendy Yorkie-Maltese mix).

Hypernyms

• Amishperson

Coordinate terms

• Amishwoman