UNDERTAKER
ADJECTIVES
1942 — IN COLD STORAGE on the undertaker’s slab → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — ON ICE on the undertaker’s slab → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — ON THE COOLING BOARD on the undertaker’s slab → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS
1830 — COLD COOKSHOP → COLD COOK’S SHOP an undertaker’s premises → sl.
1859 — BLACK WORK undertakers’ work
NOUNS, PERSON
1606 — POLLINCTOR a person who prepares a corpse for burial, cremation, or embalming, by washing, anointing, etc.; one who is employed to do this; an undertaker
1720 — COLD COOK an undertaker → sl.
..L18 — CARRION-HUNTER an undertaker → Brit. sl.
..L18 — DEATH-HUNTER an undertaker → sl.
1823 — BLACK MASTER a funeral furnisher, an undertaker → Eng. dial.
1891 — BLACK WORKER an undertaker → sl. (Bk.)
1895 — BODY-SNATCHER an undertaker
1895 — MORTICIAN a person who arranges funerals; an undertaker → orig. & chiefly Amer.
1900 — GHOUL an undertaker → US sl.
1927 — BLACK MAN a funeral director, an undertaker → Eng. dial.
1939 — BLACK COAT an undertaker → US sl.
1963 — GLOOMER an undertaker → S. Afr. sl.
1969 — OVERCOAT MAKER an undertaker → sl.
1998 — BEREAVEMENT COUNSELLOR an undertaker (Bk.)
VERBS
..19C — DO A JOB to perform the job of undertaker → Brit. euphemism
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