polisman

polisman (plural polismen)

1. (Scotland, Ireland) Policeman.
   • 2009, Sarah O’Connor, Christopher C. Shepard, Women, Social and Cultural Change in Twentieth Century Ireland, page 83:

     The march turned out not te be a real march at all on account of the fact that as soon as we tried te move aff from the Waterside station, all two thousand of us, we foun' our way blocked be a cordon of polismen lookin' wile fierce.

   • 2020, Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War, page 97:

     They wint again polismen, mostly. Mebbe that's because polismen's th' nearest things to kings they cud find.

   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 188:

     Now all we need to establish is what a shooter belonging to one of Maitland's goons is doing in a polisman's locker.

polis (“police”) +‎ man (“man”)

polisman c

1. a policeman, a police officer

   Synonym: polis

• polisman in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• polisman in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

From English policeman.

polisman

1. policeman