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polisman

polisman noun: policeman.

Noun

polisman (plural polismen)

  1. (Ireland, Scotland) Policeman.
    • The march turned out not te be a real march at all on account of the fact that as soon as we tried te move aff from the Waterside station, all two thousand of us, we foun' our way blocked be a cordon of polismen lookin' wile fierce.2009, Sarah O’Connor, Christopher C. Shepard, Women, Social and Cultural Change in Twentieth Century Ireland, page 83
    • They wint again polismen, mostly. Mebbe that's because polismen's th' nearest things to kings they cud find.2020, Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War, page 97

Forms of polisman

pluralpolismen

Questions about polisman

What does polisman mean?
Polisman means policeman.
What part of speech is polisman?
Polisman is a noun.
What is the plural of polisman?
The plural of polisman is polismen.

Words near polisman in the dictionary

  1. polishment
  2. polishments
  3. Polishness
  4. polisht
  5. polishure
  6. polisman
  7. polismen
  8. polisomy
  9. polissoir
  10. polissoirs
  11. polisson

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