Word.ws English Dictionary

wastemen

wastemen is the plural of wasteman.

Meaning of wasteman

Noun

wasteman (plural wastemen or (MLE, MTE) wastemans)

  1. (historical) A person employed to examine the state of the mine workings, to check that they are properly ventilated, and sometimes to build pillars to support the roof in the waste.
  2. (Multicultural-London-English, derogatory) A loser, bum, degenerate; someone who wastes their life in some manner.
    • He said he cared for me but he just used me for my money. I'm done with that wasteman.

Questions about wastemen

What is wastemen the plural of?
Wastemen is the plural of wasteman.

Words near wastemen in the dictionary

  1. wastelot
  2. wastelots
  3. wastels
  4. wasteman
  5. wastemans
  6. wastemen
  7. wasten
  8. wastened
  9. wasteness
  10. wastenesses
  11. Wasteneys

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wastemen (page history and authors); wasteman (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “wastemen.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/wastemen. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.