paperhanger

Examples

• All

• We're gonna be busier than a one-armed paperhanger.

  Steel Magnolias (1989)

• I'm as busy as a one-armed paperhanger, and you've got miles to cover.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Our unknown subject is a paperhanger who started working on the East Coast.

  Catch Me If You Can (2002)

• I was just a paperhanger

  The Producers (2005)

• It's a paperhanger who's working his way through Minnesota.

  Catch Me If You Can (2002)

• We got paperhangers, too, and people to repair and stain the windows.

  Fiction book (2002)

• He was a paperhanger.

  Zulu (1964)

• The paperhanger carefully aligned the patterns as she applied the wallpaper to the living room walls.

• After choosing the design, we called a skilled paperhanger to transform our office with fresh wallpaper.

Synonyms

D

decorator

vspaperhanger

46 3.5

A person who plans and decorates the inside of buildings

is narrower focusing only on applying decorative wall covering inside buildings

W

wallpaperer

vspaperhanger

7.3

A person who hangs decorative paper on walls

has identical meaning and describes the same job of applying wall covering

W

wall-paperer

vspaperhanger

4.4

A person who puts wallpaper on walls to decorate rooms

means the same job of applying wall covering for interiors

P

paperer

vspaperhanger

• Archaic

8.7

A person who puts wallpaper on walls as a job

focuses on the same decorating job of placing wall covering inside buildings

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Etymology