corner-mann.
1. The end man of a row of blackface minstrels.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > black minstrel
nigger minstrel1844
Negro minstrel1853
end-man1865
corner-man1874
1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 129 There are two corner men, one generally plays the bones and the other the tambourine. Corner-men are the grotesques of a minstrel company.
1884 Sat. Rev. 7 June 740/1 At the ends are Bones and Tambo, the ‘end-men’, who are known in England, oddly enough, as the ‘corner-men’.
2. One who lounges about street-corners, a street ‘loafer’ or ‘rough’. Cf. corner-boy n., corner-cove n. at corner n.1 Compounds 2.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > ruffianly conduct > ruffian > [noun] > frequenting streets
scamperer1712
corner-boy1855
plug-ugly1856
corner-cove1862
keelie1863
tough1866
larrikin1868
corner-man1885
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > violent treatment or force > frequenting streets
scamperer1712
sweater1712
corner-boy1855
plug-ugly1856
corner-cove1862
keelie1863
tough1866
larrikin1868
corner-man1885
voyoua1896
tsotsi1949
1885 Chambers's Jrnl. 28 Feb. 136 Curley Bond was well known in the district [in London] as a loafer and ‘corner-man’.
1886 Sat. Rev. 13 Feb. 219 Processions of the most peaceful character are protected against corner-men and roughs.
1890 Daily News 10 Apr. 5/1 The ruffianism of Birmingham is unfortunately the ruffianism of the entire kingdom.. If Birmingham has its claqueurs, Liverpool has its corner men.
3. Commerce. One who makes a ‘corner’ (corner n.1 14a).
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > dealer in stocks and shares > type of
profit taker1552
bull1714
bear1718
fund-monger1734
lame duck1806
stag1845
taker-in1852
cornerer1869
wrecker1876
corner-man1881
market-rigger1881
boursocrat1882
offeror1882
ribbon clerk1882
inflater1884
manipulator1888
underwriter1889
kangaroo1896
piker1898
share pusher1898
specialist1900
tailer1900
writer1906
placee1953
corporate raider1955
tippee1961
raider1972
bottom fisher1974
white knight1978
greenmailer1984
1881 Daily News 28 Sept. 4/7 A corner, properly speaking, may be called a secondary not a primary Speculation..Some one has taken liberties with the market by speculatively selling what he has not got; and the cornerman comes in and plays Prince Hal and Poins by spoiling the spoilers.
1887 Guardian 23 June 925 The forestallers of the middle ages are reproduced in the corner-men of to-day.
4. Logging. (See quot.) U.S.
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1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 34 Corner man, in building a camp or barn of logs, one who notches the logs so that they will fit closely and make a square corner.
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