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-manship, suffix
[f. man n.1 4 p + -ship after churchmanship, craftsmanship, sportsmanship, etc.]
Used with prefixed n. (occas. vb.) to denote skill in a subject or activity, esp. now so deployed as to disconcert a rival or opponent.
This traditional terminal element underwent a profound change of meaning after 1947 under the influence of gamesmanship. Cf. also brinkmanship, lifemanship, oneupmanship.
1821[see bullmanship s.v. bull n.1 11 a]. 1880[see bushmanship]. 1894Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Oct. 4/3 Parisiennes continue to witch the world with noble bikemanship in their graceful kilted knickerbockers. 1909M. B. Saunders Litany Lane 1. iii. 34 Otherwise the allegory—and the good-humoured clubmanship—sufficed. 1925L. O'Flaherty Informer vi. 78 We can imagine him perfecting himself in the arts of gunmanship, deceit, [etc.]. 1939Amer. Speech XIV. 80/1 Professor Kenneth B. Haas..inserted a short paragraph concerning ‘Consumer Vocabulary’ in an article entitled ‘Buymanship as an Economic Prophylaxis’. 1950Sunday Times 9 July, Many gamesmen find a specious field for the exercise of their knowledge in the allied craft of queuemanship. 1951C. D. Milner Dolomites 81 Many fine climbers who were..developing British cragmanship. 1959Evening Standard 13 June 4/3 His hobbies..include farming, motoring..and general do-it-yourself-manship. 1962Economist 28 July 338/2 Connoisseurs of conferencemanship will be happy to find resolutions calling for the abolition of indirect taxation, [etc.]. 1973Nature 24 Aug. 526/1 He has some useful and pointed things to say on ‘grantsmanship’. |