sackman
- noun
- Archaic
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hombre de los sacos
- In the old village tales, parents warned children about the sackman who would come at night.
Examples
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Some believed the sackman wandered the streets looking for misbehaving children.
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The legend of the sackman was used to scare kids into behaving.
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Many children fear the sackman who takes them away.
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Did you hear about the sackman in the village?
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In the old village tales, parents warned children about the sackman who would come at night.
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The legend of the sackman was used to scare kids into behaving.
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Some believed the sackman wandered the streets looking for misbehaving children.
Synonyms
A person who travels to sell goods, often in markets or at fairs
A person who travels with a box to sell goods
A man who travels to find work carrying his things in a bundle in Australia long ago
A man who handles passengers' bags on a train
A person who puts groceries into bags at checkout
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word sackman is simply sack + man, where sack means 'a large bag'. One popular story says parents warned children about a sackman who would put naughty children into his sack and carry them away, which is why the word means a man who carries or sells sacks or a child-stealing figure.
