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doormanship

doormanship noun: skill or ability in being a doorman.

Noun

doormanship (uncountable)

  1. Skill or ability in being a doorman.
    • Monahan stationed himself upstairs near the big room that housed the bar and crap-games; and Finnigan, the kibitzer of the three, naturally won the doormanship, his task being to welcome all patrons when, as and if they appeared, as well as to answer all incoming telephone calls from cabmen en...1932, Henry Louis Mencken, George Jean Nathan, The American Mercury, volume 27, page 432
    • She dismissed Tiffy with tactful praise for her doormanship, and took Leo and me into her office.1957, Hildegarde Dolson, A Growing Wonder, page 117

Origin of doormanship

From doorman + -ship.

Questions about doormanship

What does doormanship mean?
Doormanship means skill or ability in being a doorman.
What part of speech is doormanship?
Doormanship is a noun.

Words near doormanship in the dictionary

  1. doormaids
  2. doormaker
  3. doormakers
  4. doormaking
  5. doorman
  6. doormanship
  7. doormat
  8. doormat beard
  9. doormat beards
  10. doormats
  11. doormen

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