Englishman

Englishmen (plural)
englishman (alternative)

/ˈɪŋ.ɡlɪʃ.mən/

From Middle English Englishman, Inglishman, from Old English Englisċman, Englisċmon, corresponding to English + -man. Compare Old Norse Englismaðr (“Englishman”).

Fucking above your head Englishman!

2008, Christopher-Lee dos Santos, At thy Call, Dino Pappas and Ksenija Micic:

(South Africa, dated, ethnic slur) A South African of British descent, and/or whose first language is English (as opposed to Afrikaans-speaking Afrikaner South Africans).


British

From Middle English Brittish, from Old English Brettisċ.
The spelling with single -t- appears in the 13th century under the influence of Medieval Latin Britannicus, but spelling with -tt- persists alongside -t- during the 13th to 17th centuries.
In reference to the island of Great Britain from ca. 1400 (Latin natio Anglica sive Britannica, Brittisshe occean 1398, the Britishe nacion 1548).
As a noun, referring to the British people, British soldiers, etc. from ca. 1600.

The Celtic language of the ancient Britons; Common Brittonic.

(chiefly US) The British English language.


British

en-adj

British (comparative more British, superlative most British)

more British (comparative)
most British (superlative)
Brittish (alternative)

brythonik

history: of the ancient inhabitants of the southern part of Britain


Briton

From Old French Breton, from Latin Brittō or its Celtic equivalent (Welsh Brython). Doublet of Breton and Brython.

At last the Saxons had killed nearly all the Britons, and the few who remained took refuge in the mountains, in that part of the country which we now call Wales, and in Cornwall.

1905, Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall, Our Island Story, page 59:

He writhed for twenty minutes under the flowery and eulogistic periods of the president, and rose himself in the state of confused indignation which the Briton feels when he is publicly approved.

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

The ancient Britons were particularly fond of Anglesey, which the Romans knew as Mona.

An inhabitant of Great Britain, particularly (historical) a Celt from the area of Roman Britain or (obsolete) a Welshman.

brità

ancient Celts in the area of modern England and Wales

the British

native of Great Britain, subject of the UK


Highlander

From Highlands + -er, equivalent to a specific application of highlander.


Englishwoman

From Middle English Englishwoman, equivalent to English + -woman. Compare Englishman.

A female native or inhabitant of England; a woman who is English by birth, descent or naturalisation.

إِنْجِلِيزِيَّة

a female native or inhabitant of England


Aberdonian

From Medieval Latin Aberdonia (“Aberdeen”) + -an.

(British English, Scotland, ethnography) A citizen or inhabitant of, or person born in, Aberdeen, NE Scotland.


Londoner

From Middle English Londonere, from Old English Lundenware, Lundenwaran pl (“Londoners”), from Lunden (“London”) + -ware pl (suffix denoting inhabitants), equivalent to London + -er (“inhabitant of”, demonymic suffix).

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But the raw material that the Underground had to work on - Londoners themselves - was possibly not of the best. In 1905 Charles Yerkes had said:
Londoners are the worst people to get a move on I ever knew. To see them board and get off a train one thinks they had a thousand years to do it in; still they are getting better, and in the end I shall work them down to an allowance of thirty seconds.

2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 214:

Khan countered this by alleging that 'unfair' conditions, such as raising council tax, are being attached to any new funding deal that would "punish Londoners" for the effect the pandemic has had on passenger numbers. He added: "These short-term deals are trapping TfL on life support rather than putting it on the path to long-term sustainability."

2022 January 12, “Network News: Further extension to Transport for London emergency funding”, in RAIL, number 948, page 8:

A person from, or an inhabitant of, London.


Scot

From Old English Scottas (“people from Ireland, Irishmen”), from Late Latin Scotti (see Scōtī for more).
See Scoti.

der

A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage, variant of Scott.


Liverpudlian

From Liverpool and puddle, as a pun on a puddle being a small pool.

(soccer) someone connected with Liverpool Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.


Novocastrian

From Latin novus (“new”) + castra (“castle, fort”).

Of or relating to Newcastle upon Tyne or Newcastle, New South Wales.


Novocastrian

A native or resident of Newcastle upon Tyne or Newcastle, New South Wales.


Scouser

From scouse + -er, from scouse, a common stew in Liverpool.


Mancunian

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From Latin Mancunium (appearing in a 4th-century manuscript of the Antonine Itinerary), an alternative name for or corruption of Mamucium (“name of the Roman fort at what is now Manchester”) + -an, probably modelled after Late Latin Mancuniensis (“related or pertaining to Mancunium”).

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But the Mancunians are of all men the most disposed to peace. Their name has become a bye-word because they are said to require peace at any price. If the Mancunians are satisfied, for Heaven's sake do not let us put it into their heads that they could gain anything by change.

1859, [Arthur Helps], “War”, in Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse thereon (New Series), 2nd edition, volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker & Son, West Strand, →OCLC, page 137:

In this epitome of local medical history there is much of which any Mancunian can be proud, be he a medical man, a citizen of Greater Manchester or a member of its universities.

1984, S. W. Stanbury, “Foreword”, in Willis J. Elwood, A. Félicité Tuxford, editors, Some Manchester Doctors: A Biographical Collection to Mark the 150th Anniversary of the Manchester Medical Society 1834–1984, Manchester, Dover, N.H.: Published for the Manchester Medical Society by Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page vii:

Mancunians have shown their defiance in the face of terror after a suicide bomber killed 22 people in the city on Monday night.

2017 May 23, Sarah Ann Harris, “Manchester bombing prompts extraordinary messages of defiance: ‘F*ck terrorism stick the kettle on.’”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2017-05-23:

A person raised or living in the city of Manchester, England, in the United Kingdom.


Scillonian

A native or inhabitant of the Isles of Scilly, a Scilly Islander.

Scillonier

native of the Isles of Scilly, a Scilly Islander


Glaswegian

From Glasgow, modelled after Galwegian (“inhabitant of Galway”), itself modelled after Norwegian (“inhabitant of Norway”). The noun is from the adjective.

The Glaswegians bore good-humouredly the mishaps which occasionally disrupted the services during the first month.

1961 February, “Talking of Trains: The Glasgow debacle”, in Trains Illustrated, page 66:


Welshman

From Middle English Walishman, equivalent to Welsh + -man.

Coordinate term: Welshwoman

A man who is a native or inhabitant of Wales.


Brit

1901, either a shortening of Britisher or Briton, or a back-formation of British.

(lexicography) Abbreviation of British English.


Cockney

First attested in Samuel Rowland's 1600 The Letting of Humours Blood in the Head-Vaine as "a Bowe-bell Cockney", from Middle English cokenay (“a spoiled child; a milksop, an effeminate man”), used in the 16th c. by English country folk as a term of disparagement for city dwellers, of uncertain etymology. Possibly from Middle English cokeney (“a small, misshapen egg”), from coken (“cocks'”) + ey (“egg”) or from Cockney and Cocknay, variants of Cockaigne, a mythical land of luxury (first attested in 1305) eventually used as a humorous epithet of London. Compare cocker (“to spoil a child”).

der

(UK) From the East End of London, or London generally.


Fifer

A person who hails from the county of Fife in Scotland.


Tyke

Perhaps a derogatory nickname from Old Norse tík, 'bitch, female dog' (compare English tyke, Icelandic tík). Less likely to be from Old Norse þýzkr, 'of one's nation' or an Old English cognate (compare German deutsch, Swedish tysk).

(UK, informal) a Yorkshireman or Yorkshirewoman; a Yorkshire person


Ulsterman

Any male coming from or living in the northern Irish province of Ulster.


Haligonian

(England) A native or inhabitant of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England.


Mackem

Mackems (plural)
Makem (alternative)
Mak'em (alternative)


Makem

(derogatory or humorous) Alternative spelling of Mackem


Yorkie

It is getting as much air in your batter as possible that will make your Yorkies rise!


Geordie

A diminutive of the male given name George.

A diminutive of the female given names Georgia, Georgiana, Georgette, or Georgina.


Geordie

en-noun

Geordie (countable and uncountable, plural Geordies)


Geordie

Related to or characteristic of Geordies, Tyneside or Newcastle upon Tyne.


Leodensian

Leodensians (plural)
Leodiensian (alternative)

From Latin Loidensis (of or from Leeds).

This never would have happened to Smeeton/Or an old Leodensian

2004, Kaiser Chiefs (lyrics and music), “I Predict A Riot”:

A pupil or alumnus of Leeds Grammar School.


Brummie

From Brum + -ie, from Brummagem, a dialectal variant of Birmingham.

John figured that people who said Ciao were asking to be damaged, especially Brummies with dreary accents who sounded even more absurd than other non-Italian Ciao users.

2001, David Franklin, Looking For Sarah Jane Smith, Baby Ice Dog Press, Australia, →ISBN:

His drilled shot is inch perfect and initially I am frozen as the ball hits the back of the net, in front of the open mouthed Brummies massed behind the goal.

2009, Steve Mifflin, Exile in the Promised Land, published 2013, page 120:

The truth is that these days the Brummies have been magnanimous enough to recognise that the Black Country exists and thats^([sic]) at least a start.

2010, Bryan Connor, Voices from a Blue Box: Tales from a Black Country Copper, page 15:

(UK, informal) A person from Birmingham, United Kingdom.

An easy mistake to make though, you'll hear more Brummie in Welshpool in August than Welsh that's for sure.

2000 August 11, TerryD, "Skinny-Dipping Midlands", uk.rec.naturist, Usenet

Brummie is the accent spoken in the city of Birmingham in the area of the West Midlands. Despite its being widely discussed in the media, Brummie has not received too much attention from linguists.

2013, Kamil Malarski, “Intonation in the Perception of Brummie”, in Ewa Waniek-Klimczak, Linda R. Shockey, editors, Teaching and Researching English Accents in Native and Non-native Speakers, Springer,, page 208:

(UK, informal, uncountable) The accented variety of English spoken in Birmingham.


Brummie

en-adj

Brummie (comparative Brummier or more Brummie, superlative Brummiest or most Brummie)

Brummier (comparative)
more Brummie (comparative)
Brummiest (superlative)
most Brummie (superlative)

"Jump on that bus?" he shouted in an even Brummier accent. "Yow must be jokin'. The bleedin' thing hasn't moved in this traffic for near on an hour."

Hayley Jordan is played by an actress who's^([sic]) name I can't remember, but who is actually Jasper Carrott's daughter, and apart from Nigel Mansell, you can't get more Brummie than that.

1995 November 3, Audrey MacDonald, “Accents on the Archers”, in uk.media.radio.archers (Usenet):

When the girls smile, he says in his most Brummie Italian, False presumption of binary opposition.

1997, Tim Parks, Europa, published 2012, unnumbered page:

Mick Beards, thirty-three, is a Brummie with the Brummiest accent you have ever heard.

I remember it now having watched the clip! Under Spaghetti Junction too. You can't get more Brummie than that!

2011 January 23, darkprince66, "Good old BR Improvisation to keep the service running", uk.railway, Usenet

(UK, informal) Of or relating to Birmingham, United Kingdom.


Welshwoman

A woman who is a native or inhabitant of Wales.


Scotsman

Coordinate term: Scotswoman


Northumbrian

An inhabitant of North East England; or specifically Northumberland.


Smoggy

From smog, the fumes given off from large industrial areas and buildings, for which Middlesbrough is famous.

(sometimes derogatory) A person from Middlesbrough.


Britisher

(India) The British colonial authorities; a European member of the British Raj, especially an officer from the colonial authorities.


Britisher

'Thought you'd like to hear some Britisher music. What you'd like. Some Beatles or some Rolling Stones maybe? They're Britisher, OK?'

2015, Claude Pemberton, Your Friday, My Sunday:


Galwegian

Galwegian (comparative more Galwegian, superlative most Galwegian)

more Galwegian (comparative)
most Galwegian (superlative)

/ɡɔːlˈwiːdʒən/

Of or pertaining to Galloway, Scotland, or to its historic people, language and culture.


Galwegian

/ɡɔːlˈwiːdʒən/


Brittish

Brittish (comparative more Brittish, superlative most Brittish)

more Brittish (comparative)
most Brittish (superlative)

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren.

1776, Thomas Jefferson, others, The [United States'] Declaration of Independence:


Cestrian

A native or inhabitant of any of the places called Chester (or Chester-le-Street, etc), especially Chester, England.


Cestrian

Of, from or relating to any of the places called Chester (or Chester-le-Street, etc), especially Chester, England.


Scotswoman

Coordinate term: Scotsman


Oxonian

A student or graduate of Oxford University.


Manchestrian

One who lives in the British city of Manchester.


Shetlander

From, or related to, the Shetland Islands.


Shetlander

A native or inhabitant of the Shetland Islands.


Manxman

"Potatoes and herrings, Mr. Christian; just a Manxman’s supper.”

The Manxman is never wise until the day after the fair. (Traditional Manx saying).

2005, John Ayto, Ian Crofton, Brewer's Britain and Ireland, page 587:


Manxwoman

...the rising inflexion in her voice which made the talk of the true Manxwoman the sweetest thing in the world to listen to.


Janner

Derived from Cousin Jan (the Devonian form of John). See Janner for further explanation.

(British, slang, sometimes derogatory) Describing Plymouth's lower classes.


dalesman

January 28 2002, A Harry Griffin, The Guardian, A time to kill.
The dalesmen's sport, fox-hunting on the fells, is gradually returning after its 11-months' foot-and-mouth ban.

A person from the Yorkshire Dales, or sometimes a person from Lakeland.


Cantabrigian

/kæntəˈbɹɪd͡ʒɪən/

From Latin Cantabrigia (“Cambridge”) + -n.

An undergraduate, graduate or fellow of the University of Cambridge


Lancastrian

(historical) An adherent of the house of Lancaster, as against the Yorkists, in the Wars of the Roses.


Cumbrian

A native or inhabitant of Cumbria or Cumberland.


Salopian

From Salop (an abbreviation of Anglo-Norman Salopesberia, from Old English Scrobbesbyrig (“Shropshire”)) + -ian.

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I […] find her Recorded a SALOPIAN, and that the good Town of SHREWSBURY boasts the Honour of her Birth.

1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section I:


Salopian

en-adj

Salopian (comparative more Salopian, superlative most Salopian)

more Salopian (comparative)
most Salopian (superlative)

the Romano-Salopian pottery found at Wroxeter

(British, chiefly Shropshire) of or from Shrewsbury


Yorkshireman

Remember the eastern leg of HS2 being lopped back to the East Midlands? To this Yorkshireman, this was a tragedy. It removed the umbilical cord designed to connect and bind together the modern advanced manufacturing corridor of England (West Midlands-East Midlands-the reborn Sheffield-Leeds-Teesside-Tyneside), helping it to be capable of competing internationally through the synergy of skills and skilled people.

2024 February 7, Andrew McNaughton, “HS2: a truncated route cuts off city lifelines”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 47:


Jerseyman

(dated) A male inhabitant of Jersey (the largest island of the Channel Islands).


Manc

(colloquial) Someone from the English city of Manchester


Colcestrian

A pupil of Colchester Royal Grammar School.


Cornishman

Coordinate term: Cornishwoman


Cornishwoman

Coordinate term: Cornishman


Hebridean

Hebrideans (plural)
Hebridian (alternative)

/ˌhɛbɹɪˈdiːən/

/ˌhɛbɹəˈdiːən/


Londonian

Londonian (comparative more Londonian, superlative most Londonian)

more Londonian (comparative)
most Londonian (superlative)

In the city sense, perhaps from French Londonien, londonien.

Of or relating to Jack London (1876–1916), American author, journalist, and social activist.


Midlander

The Midlanders will hope the victory will kickstart a campaign that looked to have hit the buffers, but the sense of trepidation enveloping the Reebok Stadium heading into the new year underlines the seriousness of the predicament facing Owen Coyle's men.

2011 December 10, Marc Higginson, “Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport:

A native or inhabitant of the English Midlands.


Scilly Islander

en-noun

Scilly Islander (plural Scilly Islanders)

A person from the Scilly Islands; a Scillonian.


Isle of Wighter

Isle of Wighter (plural Isle of Wighters)


Camdenite

A native or inhabitant of any of the four Camden counties in the United States.


Wearsider

The result may not quite give the Wearsiders a sweet ending to what has been a sour week, following allegations of sexual assault and drug possession against defender Titus Bramble, but it does at least demonstrate that their spirit remains strong in the face of adversity.

2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:

Someone from Wearside, from around Sunderland.


Northern Irishman

Northern Irishman (plural Northern Irishmen)

The rejigged visiting defence was quickly under pressure, Dean Shiels played a neat one-two with Zdenek Kroca and only a brave Peter Enckelman save at the feet of the Northern Irishman prevented an opening goal.

2011 October 1, Clive Lindsay, “Kilmarnock 1 - 2 St Johnstone”, in BBC Sport:


Orkneyan

en-adj

Orkneyan (comparative more Orkneyan, superlative most Orkneyan)

more Orkneyan (comparative)
most Orkneyan (superlative)

The Orkneyan skerries

1845 January, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Seaweed”, in Graham's Magazine:


Orkneyan

A native or inhabitant of the Orkney Islands.


Northern Irelander

en-noun

Northern Irelander (plural Northern Irelanders)

Secondly, he had noted from his days as a student in England that the British “look upon those from Northern Ireland as Irish,” and the entire island as an entity connected by what he called “Irish things,” such as Catholic banning of suggestive movies. He told me that a Northern Irelander in Great Britain is not regarded as a citizen of the United Kingdom, but simply someone from Ireland.

2003, Carol Daugherty Rasnic, “Epilogue”, in Northern Ireland: Can Sean and John Live in Peace? : An American Legal Perspective, →ISBN, page 300:


Guernseyman

Someone from Guernsey; a Guernsey native or inhabitant.


Wirralian

en-adj

Wirralian (comparative more Wirralian, superlative most Wirralian)

more Wirralian (comparative)
most Wirralian (superlative)

There is no place called Wirral: it is purely a hundred name. Undeniably the people of that part are a clique with a Wirralian outlook.

1938, Edmund Vale, How to see England, page 20:

2008 June 2, Stephen Baxter, A personal reflection on a Wirralian life, Liverpool Daily Post

From or pertaining to the Wirral peninsula.


Kentish

A dialect of Old English that was spoken in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Kent.


Mertonian

A native or inhabitant of Merton, London.


Bedfordian

One who is enrolled in or has graduated from Bedford School, England.


Plymothian

A person from the English city of Plymouth.


Redingensian

a native or resident of Reading, Berkshire, South East England (in general)


South Walian

Coordinate term: North Walian


North Walian

Coordinate term: South Walian

Staging a match at the SToK Racecourse - the oldest stadium in the world still hosting international football - was therefore a means for Wales' players and staff to show their gratitude to their north Walian fans.

2023 October 11, Dafydd Pritchard, “Wales 4-0 Gibraltar”, in BBC Sport:


North Walian

Coordinate term: South Walian


Richmonder

Richmond upon Thames
Richmond upon Thames

(rare) A native or inhabitant of Richmond upon Thames, London.


Channel Islander

en-noun

Channel Islander (plural Channel Islanders)

From Channel Islands + -er, after islander.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Channel Islander.

A native or inhabitant of the Channel Islands.


Wiganer

A person from Wigan in northern England.


East Anglian

Hundreds of East Anglians were interviewed—in the streets, on buses, in clubs and in Women's Institutes, for example—in the course of this study.

1964 April, “Passenger Travel Campaign in the Norwich Area”, in Modern Railways, page 235:


Nottinghamian

A pupil or alumnus of Nottingham High School.


Clactonian

Of or from Clacton (especially from Clacton-on-Sea)


Stopfordian

A student or alumnus of Stockport Grammar School.


Norfolcian

A great appearance of these rebellious Norfolcians were got together near Lyn: but the magistrates and people of that town did not side with them, but kept themselves loyal to the king.

1721, John Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials, volume 2, London: Samuel Bagster, published 1816, Book I, Chapter 21, p. 285:

The most prominent characteristics of the ‘Norfolcians,’ the writer observes, are habitual cleanliness, and a strong peculiarity of dialect.

1801 August, “Erratics”, in The Monthly Review, volume 35, Review, page 387:

1833, “Sporting Intelligence,” The Sporting Magazine, Volume 7 (Second Series), No. 42, October 1833, p. 495,
In the Norfolcians’ second innings, when the two Pilches met together, it was a high treat to the lovers of batting—nothing could excel the beauty of their play.


Croydonian

A native or inhabitant of Croydon in Greater London.


East Ender

East Enders (plural)
East-Ender (alternative)

From East End + -er (suffix denoting residency).

suffix

When Professor Huxley lived as a medical officer in the East of London he acquired a knowledge of the actual condition of the life of many of its populace which led him long afterwards to declare that the surroundings of the savages of New Guinea were much more conducive to the leading of a decent human existence than those in which many of the East-Enders live.

1890, William Booth, In Darkest England and the Way Out:

A native or inhabitant of London's East End.


Peterborian

en-adj

Peterborian (comparative more Peterborian, superlative most Peterborian)

more Peterborian (comparative)
most Peterborian (superlative)


Horshamite

Horshamite (comparative more Horshamite, superlative most Horshamite)

more Horshamite (comparative)
most Horshamite (superlative)


Sheffielder

[…] and with the two promised Sheffielders, Driver Elliott and Fireman Lewis, we were soon on our way over the most unapproachably dreary region of the whole run, scarcely to be paralleled in the Black Country itself.

1949 March and April, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–2”, in Railway Magazine, page 82:


Portmuthian

Portmuthians are proud of the fact that Englishmen cannot consider their national history without considering the part which Portsmouth played in it.

1938, The Library Association Record, volume 40, page 218:


Edinbronian

The impression she left upon the Edinbronians was so vivid that they didn't care for Celeste after her, and they wouldn't stand Webster at any price after Murray in " Muster Grinnidge."

1890, John Coleman, Players and Playwrights I Have Known:

Alternatively there may be a sly joke here as the Highlander Ramsay is more 'northern' than the Edinbronian Hume.

2015, Michael Morris, Scotland and the Caribbean, c.1740-1833: Atlantic Archipelagos, →ISBN:

The wind wasn't so fierce but few Edinbronians had ventured out.

2015, Douglas Corleone, Gone Cold: A Simon Fisk Thriller, →ISBN, page 124:


Edinburger

Edinburgers (plural)
Edinburgher (alternative)

At this time there happened to be a traveling skeptic in Edinburg, who was determined not to enter a church, or pay the least deference to the religious habits of the God-fearing Edinburgers.

1875, Wayside Gleanings in Europe, page 19:

Why would he want to become an Edinburger? He's proud of his Fife roots.

2013, Daniel Gray, Stramash!: Tackling Scotland's Towns and Teams, →ISBN, page 108:

Socially, Edinburgh is a finely balanced mixture of middle and working classes; conservative in manner, often muted in voice, Edinburgers are perhaps the polar opposites to the brash, tanned, self-aggrandizing population of its near neighbour, Glasgow.

2014, Andrew-Henry Bowie, The Death of Mr. Grumble, →ISBN:


Edinbourgeois

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Brian Cassells' theory about morbid publicity being good publicity had proved incorrect and the average Edinbourgeois was too affronted by the title alone to consider seeing the show.

2011, Simon Brett -, So Much Blood, →ISBN:

Christopher Wallace, originally German but now an Edinbourgeois, in his The Resurrection Club (1999) queries the dissection and consumption of ourselves through markets of memory like Edinburgh Festivals.

2012, Caroline McCracken-Flesher, The Doctor Dissected: A Cultural Autopsy of the Burke and Hare Murders, →ISBN:

In 1822 the Edinbourgeois started to build the Parthenon on top of the Calton Hill, to commemorate the war.

2014, Christopher Harvie, Scotland: A Short History: new edition, →ISBN, page 148:


Thamesider

A person who lives beside the River Thames.


Hattonite

Someone from any of several localities in England called Hatton.


Guildfordian

The bonfire night celebrations in Victorian Guildford were a far cry from those familiar to Guildfordians today.

1985, Surrey Archaeological Collections:

Someone from or residing in Guildford, Surrey, England.


Northumber

From Middle English Northhumbre, from Old English Norþhymbre, variant of Norþanhymbre.

From this monastery, all the churches of Bernicia, or the northern part of the kingdom of the Northumbers from the Tine to the Firth of Edinburgh, had their beginning ; as had some also of those of the Deïri, who inhabited the southern part of the same kingdom from the Tine to the Humber.

1821, Alban Butler, The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints, volume 8, John Murphy, pages 546–547:

Some years after Alla's reign, when Ethelfred was king of the Northumbers, he made war with the British Christians that inhabited Wales, and was the author of that terrible slaughter of the monks of Bangor.

1839, Charles Dodd, Mark Aloysius Tierney, Dodd's Church History of England […] , Charles Dolman, page 32:

All our historians agree that Oswald was a man of much piety, and of an amiable disposition. By his valour he united the kingdoms of Bernicia, and Deira, and made himself sole monarch over all the Northumbers.

1842, Joseph Strutt, J. B. Planché, The Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of England […] , Henry G. Bohn, page 133:


Dartfordian

Dartfordian (comparative more Dartfordian, superlative most Dartfordian)

more Dartfordian (comparative)
most Dartfordian (superlative)

Of or relating to Dartford in Kent, England.


Islingtonian

(attributive) Relating to Islington, London, and its residents.


Wiganite

[...] the striking artwork features the above and several other distinct words and phrases nominated by the local community and used by Wiganites in every day conversation.

2022 January 12, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 948, page 70:


Yorker

From (New) York + -er (“person associated with”).

suffix

(historical) An inhabitant of Vermont who took the position that Vermont was by rights a part of the state of New York during the dispute over the status of Vermont in the 1770s and 1780s.


Kentishman

Coordinate term: man of Kent

(historical) A man from Kent, especially the western part.


Lakelander

A native or inhabitant of the Lake District.


Durhamite

A native or inhabitant of any of various places called Durham.


Ulsterite

A native or inhabitant of Ulster in Ireland.


man of Kent

Coordinate term: maid of Kent

A man from the eastern part of Kent, England, as opposed to the western part (whose inhabitants are traditionally described as Kentish).


maid of Kent

Coordinate term: man of Kent

A woman from the eastern part of Kent, England, as opposed to the western part (whose inhabitants are traditionally described as Kentish).


Jerseyite

A person from New Jersey, United States.


Hullensian

Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull#English

A person from Kingston upon Hull, England.


Derbeian

A person from Derby, Derbyshire, England.


Worcesterite

Mayor Harrington is a New Englander, a Worcesterite by birth and inclination, who loves his town as much as his town loves him.

1890 March 1, “Worcester's Mayor”, in Light, volume 1, number 1, page 19:

Miller, a frail but clever champion, spent most of the night warding off the wild rushes of the game but incompetent Worcesterite.

1935 October 23, Hy Hurtwitz, “Miller Outclasses Cormier at Garden”, in The Boston Globe, page 22:

The Worcesterite replied: "You cannot get anything to drink here, the places for the sale of liquor have all been closed up."

1991, Roy Rosenzweig, “The Rise of the Saloon”, in Chandra Mukerji and Michael Schudson, editors, Rethinking Popular Culture: Contempory Perspectives in Cultural Studies, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 126:

Someone from Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts.


Edinburgher

Edinburghers would not admit the Engliſh Exiles, nor Hamilton, to enter their City, (252)

1690, George Buchanan (unknown translator), “An Alphabetical Table”, in The History of Scotland, London: […] E. Jones, for A. Churchil, […]:

A funereal fog cloaked the Scottish capital Thursday, but nothing could dampen the ardour of Edinburghers to have their say about Scotland’s future.

2014 September 19, Matthew Fisher, “Hearts on sleeves as Scotland faces moment of truth”, in The Vancouver Sun, page B1:

So it means something to be back here for my first walk up Arthur’s Seat in years. Others feel the same. At the top, where great columns of wind seem to carry the northern light as they travel, flattening vast expanses of meadow grasses, I meet a rarity at an elevation of 251 metres: an actual Edinburgher.

2022 July 23, Chitra Ramaswamy, “Arthur’s Seat, Edinburgh”, in Saturday (The Guardian), number 43, page 20:


Liverpolitan

Influenced by similar terms Neapolitan, metropolitan. Possibly popularized as a more high-class alternative to Liverpudlian.

Indeed, the Liverpolitan accent had more in common with that spoken in surrounding parts of Lancashire in 1914 than it does today.

2005, Helen B. McCartney, Citizen Soldiers, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 86:


Liverpolitan

The man, it will be seen, was himself a Liverpolitan, and I dare say he voiced very fairly the general Liverpolitan sentiment in these matters.

1907, Dixon Scott, Liverpool, A. and C. Black, page 112:


লন্ডনবাসী

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লন্ডনবাসী • (lonḍonbaśi)

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লন্ডনবাসী • (lonḍonbaśi)


black British

black British (plural)
Black British (alternative)

Theresa identifies herself as Caribbean, taking distance from those she defines as ‘black British’. The way she defines ‘those’ women is challenged by Beatrice (who does at this moment identify as black British) and Priscilla (who defends and explains the black British without explicitly identifying as such).

1995, Amina Mama, Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender, and Subjectivity, page 84:

Similarly, the black British are always depicted as outsiders to British culture.

1996, Mantia Diawara, “Black British cinema: spectatorship and identity formation in Territories”, in Houston A. Baker, Manthia Diawara, Ruth H. Lindeborg, editors, Black British Cultural Studies: A Reader, page 299:

As the Islamic world replaces Communism as the threat to Western civilisation […] the Caribbean black British seem less alien, untainted by the stigma of religious separatism.

2007, David Ellis, Writing Home: Black Writing in Britain Since the War, page 145:

A social and cultural group in Britain comprising people of Black ethnic origin, sometimes including people of other nonwhite ethnicity.


black British

By 1980 pictures about black British people were becoming much more angry, explicit and partisan.

1999, David Christopher, British Culture: An Introduction, page 90:

Black British literature (which is as multifarious as the cast of White Teeth) not only deals with the situation of those who came from former colonies and their descendants, but also with the society which they discovered and continue to shape—and with those societies left behind.

2004, Mark Stein, Black British Literature: Novels of Transformation, page xii:

Of or related to the social and cultural group of Black or other nonwhite Britons.


Black British

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Black British (countable and uncountable, plural Black British)

Bloom’s Black British dialect is a technical and rhythmic innovation. It is a self conscious attempt to subvert the traditional language of poetry and insist on a merciless difference.

1991, Maggie Humm, Border Traffic: Strategies of Contemporary Women Writers, page 59:

By the time that awareness had been raised in educational circles, the ability to code-switch between the local British dialect and Black British English was widespread; the distinctively Black British variety which was emerging among second-generation children was essentially a marker of identity.

2007, Viv Edwards, Multilingualism in the English-Speaking World : Pedigree of Nations, page 126:

(uncountable) A variety of English language spoken by or associated with Black people in Britain.

Alternative letter-case form of black British, a social and cultural group consisting of Black Britons.


Black British

Alternative letter-case form of black British.


Guernseywoman

A woman from Guernsey; a female native or inhabitant of Guernsey.


Tottenhamite

It was a brave sight on a Sunday morning to see those old Tottenhamites—each with his comfortable lady-wife on his arm—proceeding in their stiff Sunday best to the morning service; pitying the Quaker friends they met on their way for their incomplete and unenlightened faith—the Quakers, of course, pitying the Churchmen for theirs.

1914, S. G. Tallentyre [Evelyn Beatrice Hall], “VIII. Realisation”, in Matthew Hargraves, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 155:

(rare) A native or inhabitant of Tottenham in London.


Invernessian

We know not very well what a Ross man feels to an Invernessian; we must leave this to greater adepts than ourselves; but we understand that Argyleshire; but we must understand that Argyleshire prides itself on comparative civilization.

1827, The Port Folio, Editor and Asbury Dickens:

A native or inhabitant of Inverness, United Kingdom.


Northamptonian

To my friends and fellow-citizens of Northampton — Thinking these few lines, being the experience of a young Northamptonian in America, would be interesting generally to my former friends and acquaintances in the good old town of St. Crispin, I enclose them, deeming this is a sufficient for troubling your columns.

1888, “A trip to the Rocky Mountains of North America.”, in Latter-day Saints Millennial Star, volume 50, page 338:

A native or inhabitant of Northampton, United Kingdom.


Chelmsfordian

Dr. Grisby, an old Chelmsfordian, founder of the Law School in Japan and president of the District Court in Cyprus 1893–5 was present.

1907, The Victoria History of the County of Essex, Constable:

A native or inhabitant of Chelmsford, United Kingdom.


Boltonian

The gentleman repeated his description, and the worthy Boltonian recorded every word in the tablet of his memory.

A native or inhabitant of Bolton, United Kingdom.


Ewellian

A pupil or alumnus of Ewell Castle School.


Accringtonian

/ækɹɪŋˈtəʊnɪ.ən/

I have searched among the names of Accringtonians of the 17th century but failed to discover that family, or, in fact, any of the other families who at that period would be occupants of Courthouses.

1928, Richard Ainsworth, The Old Homesteads of Accrington and District, page 144:

One old Accringtonian, now in America, who was born at Dunnishop, remembers, as a boy, some festivities that took place here.

2013, Richard Shaw Crossley, Accrington Through The 19th Century, →ISBN, page 165:

His fellow Accringtonian, David Lloyd, had moved on to Old Trafford by then, but knew Ratcliffe well [...]

2024, Lawrence Booth, editor, The Shorter Wisden 2024, →ISBN:

A native or resident of Accrington, England.


Kingstonian

The character of the inhabitants during this long period seems, on their own shewing, to have been far from reputable; every vice and every species of immorality appears to have been practised more or less openly, and it was not till the present century that any great or marked improvement took place in the intelligence or prosperity of the Kingstonians.

1852, W. G. Biden, editor, The History and Antiquities of the Ancient and Royal Town of Kingston-upon-Thames, page 32:

[...] we shall turn to the east and finish the purlieus of Hampton with a glance at the old Saxon town of Kingston-on-Thames. Probably an ardent Kingstonian would indignantly disown the impression our three words are apt to give of the place.

1876, “Up The Thames”, in Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, volume XVII, number 97, page 33:

Kingstonians blessed or cursed with a nagging wife just complained to the Bailiffs who had her placed in the ducking stool and forcibly immersed in the river.

1938, G. Herbert Shaw, A Survey of the Royal Borough and Its Amenities, page 15:

The churchyard is therefore still the final resting place of Kingstonians, as is the Memorial Garden, which was once the church 'overflow' burial ground.

2014, Julian McCarthy, Secret Kingston Upon Thames, →ISBN:

Kingston upon Thames
Kingston upon Thames

A native or resident of Kingston upon Thames, England.