Earthling vs Earthsman - What's the difference?
earthling | earthsman |
An inhabitant of the planet Earth (Generally in science fiction aliens who use the term Earthling look down on the people of earth.)
Someone from the planet Earth; an earth-man, an earthling.
*1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
*:For years he knows not the land; so that when he comes to it at last, it smells like another world, more strangely than the moon would to an Earthsman .