Six Men
I will be at scrabble tonight, having missed a couple of weeks. However next week I will be away at the National Bridge Congress so not only will I not be at Scrabble next week, but there will be no blog either. Fortunately I chose such a long list that you will be bound to need to review it on the following week. Alternatively you could learn half this week and half next week
A Grade Challenge
Only 1 rack for the A grade challenge this week. The first word on the learning list is AIDMAN. A good 6 letter word, but how about if you also have a blank?
A A D I M N ?
What 7 letter bingos can you make with AIDMAN and a blank?
There are 5 answers. They all use the blank as a different letter. This is definitely not an easy quiz. I know that I would have got 1 and have an idea that I might have seen 2 more so would like to think that getting 3 was a possibility. Hats off to you if you can get 4 or 5.
B & C Grade Learning List
There are a lot of 6 letters words that can be spelled both –MAN and –MEN. It is true that playing a 6 letter word is not as rewarding as playing a bingo. However there will be lots of opportunities to play some of the words below. It is the full list, so you will already know some of them, but there are a lot that I would not have been sure of. Perhaps because I have studied too many 7 letter bingos and missed many of these 6 letter words .
AIDMAN Enlisted man trained in first aid
AIRMAN An aviator
APEMAN Any of several human ancestors
ASHMAN Someone who collects ashes
AXEMAN A man who uses an axe. Also AXMAN
BADMAN An outlaw
BAGMAN A travelling salesman
BARMAN A male bartender
BATMAN An officer’s personal assistant
BAYMAN A person who works about a bay
BINMAN A refuse disposal man
BOGMAN The body of a man preserved in peat
BOWMAN An archer
BUSMAN The driver of a bus
CABMAN The driver of a cab
CARMAN A streetcar driver
CONMAN A confidence trickster
COWMAN Someone who owns cattle
CUPMAN A Good friend
DOGMAN Someone who directs a crane while sitting on the load
DOLMAN A hussar’s jacket
This is a rare case where MAN and MEN words both exist but are different. DOLMEN is a tomb of unhewn stones
FENMAN A fen country resident
FLYMAN The driver of a light public carriage
FOEMAN An enemy in war
FOGMAN A man who sets railway fog signals
GADMAN A man who drives horses at the plough. Also GADSMAN
GAGMAN A man who writes jokes
GASMAN An employee of a gas company
GEMMAN An archaic form of gentleman
GERMAN An elaborate dance
Another case of separate MAN and MEN words. GERMEN is an origin
GIGMAN The driver of a gig (seems to be another term for uber driver)
GUNMAN Someone armed with a gun
HETMAN A Cossack headman or general
HITMAN A professional killer
HODMAN A bricklayer’s labourer
ICEMAN A man who supplies ice
LAWMAN A law enforcement officer
LAYMAN A member of the laity
LEGMAN A journalist assigned to gather information
MADMAN A man who is insane
MERMAN A mythical being with a man’s body and a fish’s tail
NONMAN A being that is not a man
OILMAN Someone who owns or operates an oil well
PENMAN An author
PIEMAN Someone who sells pies
PIGMAN A pig farmer
PITMAN A mine worker
POTMAN A man who serves customers in a tavern
PREMAN A hypothetical ancestor of man
RAGMAN A man who collects or deals in rags
RODMAN A surveyor’s assistant. Also RODSMAN
SAXMAN A saxophone player
SEAMAN A sailor
SKYMAN A paratrooper
SOCMAN A tenant by socage. A type of feudal land tenure
SUBMAN A primitive being
TAXMAN Someone who collects taxes
TINMAN A worker of tin
TITMAN The smallest of a litter of pigs
TOPMAN A sailor who works in the topsail
TOYMAN A seller of toys
TUTMAN Someone who does piecework
VANMAN A van driver
VATMAN Someone who works for Customs and Excise
WARMAN A warrior
YEOMAN A member of a class of small farmers
Answers to A Grade Challenge
DAMIANA A type of tropical shrub
JAMDANI A type of dacca muslin
MANDIRA A type of Hindu temple
MAIDANS An Indian term for plains or spaces near a town
DAYANIM A senior rabbi
Happy Scrabbling Patrick