trammietrammyn.
/ˈtrami/, U.S. /ˈtræmi/, Australian English /ˈtræmi/, New Zealand English /ˈtrɛmi/ colloquial (esp. Australian and New Zealand).
A tram-conductor or tram-driver.
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c1926 ‘Mixer’ Transport Workers' Song Bk. 23 Then he slathers up the ‘trammies’, As the conductor goes through.
1934 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Grey Granite iii. 192 The conductor had seen Alick and caught his arm... The trammie held fast, a squat, buirdly bird with a face like a badly-made barn door.
1934 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Grey Granite iii. 192 That shortened the run, in a minute the Docks, the trammie slowed down at a bend.
1945 F. Ryland in Coast to Coast 1944 166 The soldier sprang wildly to his feet and knocked the trammie in the mouth.
1972 Guardian 6 Dec. 13/5 Trammies, truckies and wharfies (Australian for tram and bus conductors and drivers, truck-drivers and dockers).
1979 Jrnl. Lancs. Dial. Soc. Jan. 5 At heart I will always be a trammie, for somehow the outlandish humour of those days was born in trams and synonymous with them.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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