From lumber + jack, of Canadian origin.
lumberjack (plural lumberjacks)
- A person whose work is to fell trees.
- Synonyms: faller, feller, (contemporary) logger, lumberman, woodcutter
1975 [1969], “The Lumberjack Song”, performed by Monty Python:He's a lumberjack and he's OK / He sleeps all night and works all day / I cut down trees, I eat my lunch / I go to the lavatory
- A lumberjacket.
person who fells trees
- Albanian: druvar (sq) m
- Arabic: حَطَّاب m (ḥaṭṭāb)
- Armenian: անտառահատ (hy) (antaṙahat), ծառահատ (hy) (caṙahat), փայտահատ (hy) (pʻaytahat)
- Aromanian: limnar m
- Assamese: খৰিকটীয়া (khorikotia)
- Azerbaijani: odunçu
- Belarusian: лесару́б m (ljesarúb), драўні́к m (draŭník), дрывасе́к m (dryvasjék)
- Bulgarian: дървосека́ч (bg) m (dǎrvosekáč), дърва́р (bg) m (dǎrvár)
- Catalan: llenyataire (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 伐木工 (zh) (fámùgōng)
- Czech: dřevorubec (cs) m
- Danish: skovhugger c
- Dutch: houthakker (nl) m or f
- Esperanto: arbohakisto
- Estonian: puuraidur
- Faroese: skóghøggari m
- Finnish: metsuri (fi)
- French: bûcheron (fr) m
- Galician: leñador m, fragueiro m
- Georgian: ტყისმჭრელი (ṭq̇ismč̣reli)
- German: Holzfäller (de) m, Holzfällerin (de) f
- Greek: ξυλοκόπος (el) m (xylokópos)
- Ancient: ξυλοκόπος m (xulokópos)
- Hindi: लकड़हारा (hi) m (lakaṛhārā)
- Hungarian: favágó (hu)
- Icelandic: skógarhöggsmaður (is) m
- Irish: lománaí m
- Italian: boscaiolo (it) m, tagliaboschi m
- Japanese: 樵 (ja) (きこり, kikori), 木こり (きこり, kikori)
- Kashubian: rãbca m
- Kazakh: ағаш кесуші (ağaş kesuşı), отыншы (otynşy)
- Korean: 나무꾼 (ko) (namukkun)
- Kyrgyz: отунчу (otuncu)
- Latin: lignātor m
- Latvian: kokcirtējs m
- Lithuanian: medkirtys m
- Macedonian: дрвосечач m (drvosečač), дрвар m (drvar)
- Marathi: लाकूडतोड्या m (lākūḍtoḍyā)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tømmerhugger (no) m
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- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: дрво̀сеча m, дрво̀сјеча m
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- Slovene: drvar m
- Spanish: leñador (es) m, talador (es) m
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- Welsh: coedwigwr m, cymynwr coed m
- Yiddish: האָלצהעקער m (holtsheker)
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lumberjack (third-person singular simple present lumberjacks, present participle lumberjacking, simple past and past participle lumberjacked)
- (transitive) To work as a lumberjack, cutting down trees.
2009 July 28, John Branch, “Going Way of Old Growth”, in New York Times[1]:Many of the lumberjacking memories have faded to black and white, the brightest moments colored mostly by Jim McKay’s yellow blazer.
