flyman
noun
flyman is a noun meaning “Someone who drives the type of coach called a fly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-Y-M-A-N, and it appears about once in every 98 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flyman is flymen.
What does flyman mean?
noun
- 1
UKSomeone who drives the type of coach called a fly.
- 2
Someone who operates a fly system in a theatre.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of flyman
- flymen plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flyman?
Flyman appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does flyman come from?
From fly + -man.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).