coachdriver

Updated: June 18, 2025

Thus highwayman, woodman, and horsecourser, require an explanation; but of thieflike or coachdriver no notice was needed, because the primitives contain the meaning of the compounds.

Samuel Johnson - Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language

Thus highwayman, woodman, and horsecourser, require an explanation, but of thieflike, or coachdriver, no notice was needed, because the primitives contain the meaning of the compounds.

- Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books: with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations