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rewriteman

noun

Etymology

From rewrite + -man.

  1. derived from *wrey-✻ — “to rip, tear”
  2. inherited from *wrītaną✻ — “to carve, write”
  3. inherited from *wrītan✻
  4. inherited from wrītan
  5. inherited from writen
  6. prefixed as rewrite — “re + write”
  7. suffixed as rewriteman — “rewrite + man”

Definitions

  1. A newspaper reporter who crafts stories from information reported by others, such as…

    A newspaper reporter who crafts stories from information reported by others, such as legmen.

    • LEG MEN cover local events and phone the information to a rewrite man.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for rewriteman. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA