goober

Conscripts by the dozen...
Come pouring in the Castle...
Some from Mississippi state and “Goobers” from Tar river.

1863, anonymous author, “Castle Thunder”, in Louis Napoléon Boudrye, editor, Historic Records of the Fifth New York Cavalry..., Appendix, page 339

The peanuts or earth-nuts known in North Carolina and the adjoining States as Goober peas, so that during the late Civil War a conscript from the so-called ‘piney woods’ of that State was apt to be nick-named a Goober.

1871, Maximilian Schele de Vere, Americanisms, page 57

(chiefly Southern US, dated slang) A Georgian or North Carolinian, particularly one from the pine forests of the Sandhills region.


off-worlder

/ˌɒfˈwɜːldə/

/ˈɔfˈwɜɹldəɹ/

From off-world (adjective) + -er (suffix denoting a person characterized by [the adjective to which the suffix is attached]).

suffix

suffix denoting a person characterized by 􂀿the adjective to which the suffix is attached􂁀

So? On your world you do as custom rules. Customs are different here, off-worlder.

1955, Andre Norton [pseudonym; Alice Mary Norton], “Classic move to Disaster”, in Star Guard, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 58

The distinguished scientist, winner of the Seo Oren Prize for service to all nations through science, has accepted a professorship at Ieu Eun University, an honor never before accorded to an off-worlder.

1974, Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin, chapter 3, in The Dispossessed, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, published July 1975, page 63

TRAVEL ADVISORY: Korlus ranks second in murder per capita in the Terminus Systems and first in offworlder murder. Civilian traffic is encouraged to employ security professionals when visiting.

2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2, Redwood City, Calif.: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Korlus

(fantasy, science fiction) One who is not from the local world (whether a dimension, plane, planet, or universe); an alien.

ulkoplaneettalainen

one who is not from the local world — see also alien


Manhattanite

This does not take into account the tens of thousands of New Yorkers who are harmlessly and charmingly insane in a peculiarly Manhattanite manner.

1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 52


Cincinnatian

While Fortescue Cuming could entertain a cabinful of young men with a violin in 1807, Frances Trollope noted that Cincinnatians organized formal balls for young people of quality twenty years later.

2015, Emily Foster, The Ohio Frontier: An Anthology of Early Writings, page 139


Montegonian

A native or inhabitant of Montego Bay, Jamaica.


US American

I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and I believe that our education, such as in South Africa and the Iraq, everywhere such as, and I believe that they should, our education over here in the US should help the US - or should help South Africa, and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our children.

2007, Miss South Carolina, Miss Teen USA

(rare) Alternative form of U.S. American


Ostrogoth

Borrowed from Late Latin Ostrogothus, from Proto-Germanic *austrą ("east") and *gutô, via Ancient Greek Γότθος (Gótthos) from Gothic *𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌰 (*guta).

Any member of an ancient East Germanic tribe, one branch of the Goths (the Visigoths being the other), which invaded Italy in the sixth century


Epirote

Borrowed from Latin Ēpīrōtēs, from Koine Greek Ἠπειρώτης (Ēpeirṓtēs).


U.S. American

I've heard a Canadian say that citizens of the U.S. should really be called USians, but somehow I don't think it will catch on. Instead, if you talk about U.S. Americans, Canadians, Brazilians, and so on, nobody should be offended.

2004, Gwyneth Olofsson, When in Rome or Rio or Riyadh—: cultural Q&As for successful business behavior around the world, page 56

To Mai, Aunt Mary is another role model, one who is a native-born U.S. American who knows the country's tricks

2005, Pauline T. Newton, Transcultural women of late twentieth-century U.S. American literature, page 139

Her answer, in its entirety, was: “I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uhmmm, some people out there in our nation don't have maps and uh, I believe that our, I, education like such as, uh, South Africa, and uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uhhh, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, should help South Africa, it should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us.”

2007, Miss South Carolina Teen USA explains herselfhttps://www.today.com/news/miss-south-carolina-teen-usa-explains-herself-1C9014791, today.com

United States of America
United States of America

A person from the United States of America.

estatounitense

ílį́įgo Wááshindoon Bikéyah biiʼ kééhojitʼíinii


Shanghainese

Inhabitant of Shanghai; person of Shanghainese descent.


Sirian

(science fiction) An inhabitant of (an exoplanet orbiting) Sirius.


Kazak

Borrowed from Kazakh Ⱪazaⱪ (official Latin orthography in Xinjiang diring 1964–1984).

bor+

Official term for the local Kazakh nationality in the People’s Republic of China.


United Statesian

en-noun

United Statesian (plural United Statesians)

To those of us who know […] such entries are more amusing than inconvenient; but to an outsider, say a Frenchman or a United-Statesian, they would cause a great expenditure of useless labour.

1892, William White, Notes and queries, volume 86 (August 20), page 146

If I was, through my father, a first-generation United Statesian, I found I was, through him, an eleventh-generation North American.

2004, David Plante, American ghosts, page 175

(nonstandard) An inhabitant or citizen of the United States of America.


US-ian

The belief that there is a culture to which a majority of (European-American) USians belong, called "white culture," is a local cultural construction, one powereful enough to influence science and society

1998, Stephen Garrard Post, Peter J. Whitehouse, Genetic testing for Alzheimer disease: ethical and clinical issues, 2nd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 266

(rare) An inhabitant or citizen of the United States of America.


Usanian

USA + -an + -ian, parallel to Panamanian, etc.; or Usania + -an

I remember Juan Trippe arriving at Croydon from Paris in a Handley Page Hercules, at which that great pseudo-Usanian Cy Caldwell had thrown the jeer that it embodied “ built-in head winds.”

1945, Charles Grey Grey, The civil air war, page 116

Like Usanians in the last half of the 20c, Japanese in the middle part of the Tokugawa Era often exhibited a smug sense of superiority vis-à-vis foreign countries

2007, Robin D. Gill, The Woman Without a Hole—& Other Risky Themes from Old Japanese Poems, page 342


Wichita

/ˈwɪt͡ʃɪtɔː/

Uncertain. Probably from Creek we-chate (“red water”), referring to We-chate hatchee (Red Water River, or Red River of the South).

A member of a tribe of Native Americans, most populous in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.


Wichita

/ˈwɪt͡ʃɪtɔː/

Their Caddoan language, which is now extinct.

Future speeding on swift wheels / straight to the heart of Wichita!

1966, Allen Ginsberg, Wichita Vortex Sutra

I'm half sick on the drinks you mixed / Through your / True dreams / Of Wichita

1994, “True Dreams of Wichita”, in Ruby Vroom, performed by Soul Coughing

A large city, the county seat of Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States; the largest city in Kansas.


planetless

And I am not going to gamble half our resources on as crazy an effort as this, masterminded by a mouthful of planetless lunatics.

1961, Galaxy Magazine - Volume 20, Issues 1-6, page 163

He cleared his throat and began the tale of the planetless boy, and Kate listened, drowsy, drifting.

1998, Dana Stabenow, Killing Grounds, page 222

Umlari, others called them. Or spacefolk. Or those planetless freaks. Living in their great stations, orbiting unwanted stars, the People cared nothing for names.

2006, Marvin Kaye, Forbidden planets, page 269

(science fiction) Having no home planet.


Praguian

Related to the Prague linguistic circle.


Copenhagener

[…] young people not only downgrade their own local accents […] relative to young Copenhagen speech, but they also perceive and evaluate the variation in this speech […] in exactly the same way as young Copenhageners do themselves.

2018, Charles Boberg, John Nerbonne, Dominic Watt, The Handbook of Dialectology, page 119


Bernese

Bernese mountain dog
Bernese mountain dog


Skopjan

During the second half of the soccer game, the Skopjan side trounced the inexperienced team from Bitola.

Of, from, or pertaining to Skopje in North Macedonia.

(by extension, neither derogatory, nor offensive, simple identification) Of, from, or pertaining to North Macedonia, especially in Greek media.

neither derogatory; nor offensive; simple identification; neither derogatory; nor offensive; simple identification


Skopjan

(by extension, sometimes derogatory, sometimes offensive) Someone from North Macedonia, especially in Greek media.


Nicosian

From Medieval Latin Nicosianus, from Nicosia + -ānus. Equivalent to Nicosia + -an.


Budapestian

A native or inhabitant of Budapest, Hungary.


Zagrebian

/zɑˈɡɹɛbiən/


Zagrebian

/zɑˈɡɹɛbiən/


Stockholmer

Stockholmers are very proud of their brand new underground railway—they even refrain from putting their feet on the opposite seats—and they have every reason for their pride.

1963 August, W. Shepherd, “Stockholm's modern underground railway”, in Modern Railways, page 99


Varsovian

Someone living in or originating from Warsaw.


Brusselian

Formed as *Brussel (structurally singular back-formation of Brussels) + -ian.


Kabulese

(rare) Synonym of Kabuli (“of, or pertaining to Kabul”)


Kabulese

(rare) Synonym of Kabuli (“a resident or native of Kabul”)


Baghdadi

Borrowed from Arabic بَغْدَادِيّ (baḡdādiyy). By surface analysis, Baghdad + -i.


Tauri

From Latin Taurī, from Ancient Greek Ταῦροι (Taûroi).

Who these Tauri were is a question of some difficulty. Strabo calls them a Scythian people, but Herodotus clearly distinguishes the Tauri from the Scythians, as being a different nation.

1850, Charles Anthon, “Chersonēsus Taurica”, in A System of Ancient and Mediæval Geography for the Use of Schools and Colleges, page 238

(historical) An ancient people who inhabited the Crimean Mountains.

Ταῦροι

an ancient people who inhabited the Crimean Mountains


Uzbekistani

A person from Uzbekistan or one of that ancestry.


Tajikistani

a person from Tajikistan or of Tajikistani descent.


São Toméan

São Tomé and Principe
São Tomé and Principe

Citizen of São Tomé and Principe or of São Toméan descent.

Santomees

citizen of São Tomé and Principe or of São Toméan descent


Antwerpian

A person who was born in, or is a citizen or inhabitant of Antwerp, Belgium


North American Indian

en-noun

North American Indian (plural North American Indians)

1748 noun, 1845 adjective, from North American + Indian.

A member of one of the indigenous peoples of North America (but not a member of the Aleut, Inuit, Metis, or Yupik).


Brabantian

He speaks Brabantian with his schoolmates, and Belgian Standard Dutch in the classroom and with unfamiliar teachers in the playground, a classic example of diglossia.

The language or dialect mainly spoken in North Brabant (the Netherlands), Antwerp and Flemish Brabant provinces (Belgium).


Burkinese

From the first part of Burkina Faso + -ese.

A member or descendant of the population of Burkina Faso.


paleocontact

ancient astronauts
ancient astronauts#English

The theory that intelligent extraterrestrial beings (sometimes called ancient astronauts) visited Earth in the distant past, influencing human culture, technology, or religion.


interdimensional

By their own mysterious yardstick, extraterrestrials and interdimensionals choose the most unlikely individuals for close encounters of the third kind on up: for starters Gilliland, Whitley Strieber, Jim Moroney, Betty and Barney Hill.

2012, Richard Grossinger, Dark Pool of Light, Volume Three: The Crisis and Future of Consciousness

(science fiction) A hypothetical being that can move between dimensions.


Motswana

He said very carefully, ‘Most of the time we Batswana live in the wilderness and loneliness.’

1969, Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather, Heinemann, published 1995, page 15

The Minister who piloted it through Parliament, the Honourable Phandu Skelemani, swore that if any Motswana were to suffer under it, he would take personal responsibility.

A member of the Tswana tribe of southern Africa, especially an inhabitant of Botswana; a Botswanan.


Istriot

A Romance language spoken in western Istria.


Scotlander

A person from Scotland or of Scottish descent; a Scot.


Irelander

A person from Ireland or of Irish descent.


Englander

From England + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Änglounder (“an Englishman”), German Engländer (“an Englishman”), Danish englænder (“an Englishman”).

cog

A person from England or of English descent.


Cherusci

(historical) a Germanic tribe that inhabited parts of the plains and forests of northwestern Germany, in the area possibly near present-day Hanover, during the first centuries BC and AD


North Briton

From north + Briton, after North Britain.

(now historical) Someone from Scotland; a Scot.


Memphite

en-adj

Memphite (comparative more Memphite, superlative most Memphite)

more Memphite (comparative)
most Memphite (superlative)


Vilnian

A person from, or an inhabitant of, Vilnius.


Cracovian

/kɹəˈkəʊvɪən/

Formed as Latin Cracōvia (“Cracow”) + English -an (suffix forming adjectives with the sense “of or pertaining to”). Equivalent to the Latin Cracōviānus.


Cracovian

/kɹəˈkəʊvɪən/

Being used to horses from their childhood, the Cracovians are excellent riders.

1921, National Polish Committee of America, Geography and ethnography of Poland

(astronomy, geodesy) a clerical convenience in solving systems of linear equations by hand.


Gagauz

/ˌɡæɡɑːˈuːz/

The language of Gagauzia and the Gagauz people.


Osakan

Osakan (comparative more Osakan, superlative most Osakan)

more Osakan (comparative)
most Osakan (superlative)

Of, relating to, from, or characteristic of Osaka in Japan.


Dakarois

This dictator-view is available to anyone who can afford the $7 it costs to ride the elevator at the base of the African Renaissance Monument. That sum, unfortunately, rules out most Dakarois.

2017, Daniel Howden, A North Korean Folly, in the Heart of Senegal


Lemurian

Lemurian (comparative more Lemurian, superlative most Lemurian)

more Lemurian (comparative)
most Lemurian (superlative)

Relating to the Ancient Roman festival of Lemuria.


Mimantean

From Ancient Greek Μῑμάντος (Mīmántos), genitive case of Μίμᾱς (Mímās), from earlier Μίμανς (Mímans).

This is puzzling because Mimas is closer to Saturn than Enceladus, and the Mimantean orbit is much more eccentric (out of round) than the Enceladean orbit.

2008, Samantha Harvey (NASA/JPL), Solar System Exploration, page Saturn: Moons: Mimas

a global thermal event early in Mimantian history erased all record of ancient impacts

2011, Paul M. Schenk, “Geology of Mimas?”, in 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference

(astronomy) Of or relating to the Saturnian moon named for Mimas


Phanariote

For a little over a hundred years, from 1711 until the outbreak of the Greek Revolution in 1821, with only brief interruptions during times of war, Moldavia and Wallachia would be ruled yb a succession of Phanariot princes.

2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 17

(now historical) An inhabitant of Phanar, the historically Greek district of Constantinople; hence, a member of the Greek official class in the Ottoman Empire.


Marcomanni

Learned borrowing from Latin Marcomanni, from Proto-Germanic *markō (“border”) + *mann- (“man”).


kelper

From kelp + -er, so named because the islands are surrounded by much kelp.

(slang, dated) A Falkland Islander, native to the Falkland Islands.


Numidian

a variety of Berber spoken by the people of Numidia


Anunnaki

Annunaki

lizard people; corrupted spelling, mostly restricted to the sense

(Mesopotamian mythology) A group of Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian deities in no known particular order including but not limited to Enki, Enlil, Ninlil and 'known as the fourth' Enbilulu.

Anunnaki

a group of Sumerian, Akkadian and Babylonian deities


Hanoverian

Hanoverian (comparative more Hanoverian, superlative most Hanoverian)

more Hanoverian (comparative)
most Hanoverian (superlative)

the Hanoverian brown rat

Of or from the House of Hanover, a German royal dynasty.


Switzer

From early New High German Schwytzer (modern High German Schweizer) "a Swiss person", especially "a Swiss soldier or mercenary", a designation adopted in the 16th century, ultimately from the toponym Swīz "Schwyz". More at Swiss.


Abkhasian

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Oxford University Press
w:Oxford University Press


Antiochian

Antiochian (comparative more Antiochian, superlative most Antiochian)

more Antiochian (comparative)
most Antiochian (superlative)


Antiochian

Pompey erected the place into a free city for refusing to receive the Armenian King Tigranes, whom the Antiochians had summoned to their aid.

(historical) A person from, or an inhabitant of, ancient Antioch.

անտիոքացի

a person from, or an inhabitant of, ancient Antioch


Antiochian

Pertaining to Antiochus of Ascalon, a contemporary with Cicero, and the founder of a sect of philosophers.


Bolognese

(informal, of a pasta sauce) Made from minced meat, tomato and any combination of other ingredients.


Aramaean

From the Latin Aramaeī, from the Ancient Greek Ἀραμαῖοι (Aramaîoi), from Hebrew ארם (aram), the biblical name of a land of Upper Mesopotamia falling within modern Syria.

Any member of a West Semitic semi-nomadic and pastoralist people who lived in the Levant and later also in upper Mesopotamia (Biblical Aram) during the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age. They spoke Aramaic.


Limburger

en-noun

Limburger (usually uncountable, plural Limburgers)


Algherese

The dialect of the Catalan language spoken in the Italian city of Alghero, in Sardinia.


Aostan

en-adj

Aostan (comparative more Aostan, superlative most Aostan)

more Aostan (comparative)
most Aostan (superlative)


Livornian

Livornian (comparative more Livornian, superlative most Livornian)

more Livornian (comparative)
most Livornian (superlative)


Roumanian

Roumanian (comparative more Roumanian, superlative most Roumanian)

more Roumanian (comparative)
most Roumanian (superlative)


Ganymedean

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Ganymede (a moon of Jupiter).


Enceladan

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Enceladus (a moon of Saturn).


Venerian

Venerian (comparative more Venerian, superlative most Venerian)

more Venerian (comparative)
most Venerian (superlative)

From Middle English venerien, either from Old French venerien or from Latin Venerius.


Charonian

/kəˈɹoʊnɪən/

From Charon + -ian, or from the alternative Latin oblique stem Charōnis.

The Charonian journey will soon be taken.

The Elysian plain, near the Catacombs in Egypt, stood upon the foul Charonian canal: which was so noisome, that every fetid ditch and cavern was from it called Charonian. [...] Pliny speaking of some Charonian hollows in Italy, says that the exhalations were insupportable.

1773, Jacob Bryant, A New System, or, an Analysis of Ancient Mythology, volume I, pages 29–30

[It] possessed the six legs characteristic of Charonian life

1940, Edmond Hamilton, Calling Captain Future, page 50

Although this casts doubt on an intrinsic source for a present-day Charonian atmosphere, it is possible that Elliot & Young's result can be understood if Charon's gravity causes it to collect escaping gas from Pluto.

1992, Alan Stern, “The Pluto-Charon System”, in Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 30, page 225


Charonian

/kəˈɹoʊnɪən/

The Charonians were proud of their frozen hell. Styxville was like Plutopolis, only less so.

1990, Donald Moffitt, A Gathering of Stars

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Charon (a moon of Pluto).

Charonian staircase

a flight of steps from under the stage in ancient Greek theatre; used by arrivals from Hades.


Cererian

/səˈɹɪəɹɪ.ən/

From Latin Cereris, genitive case of Cerēs.

Sprinkled with salt and Cererean grain

1823, William Booth, “Nasidien”, in Flowers of Roman poesy, page 42

An untilled soil its yearly growth of grain Cererian yields

1878, William Thomas Thornton, “Epode 16”, in Word for word from Horace, page 314

As a divinity of the earth, Mefitis shows in fact two aspects: cererian, she is goddess of plowing [...], and chthonian

1986, Sarah Iles Johnston, The Journal of Indo-European studies, volume 14, page 44

We find, for example, at Agnone a "Cererian" Hercules and at Rossano a "Mefitanian" Mamers (= Mars); presumably these two major Italic divinities, Hercules and Mamers, were the "guests" of Ceres and Mefitis

2004, Sarah Iles Johnston, Religions of the ancient world, page 233

Of or relating to the Roman goddess Ceres


scoutcraft

en-noun

scoutcraft (plural scoutcrafts or scoutcraft)

scoutcrafts (plural)
scoutcraft (plural)

Enemy scoutcraft, extreme range.

1994, Debra Doyle, James D. Macdonald, By Honor Betray'd

In August 1954 a Venusian scoutcraft allegedly flew Adamski around the moon, showing him extraterrestrial cities and hangars as well as forests, lakes, and rivers.

1999, Jerome Clark, Unexplained!: Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences & Puzzling Physical Phenomena, Visible Ink Press, page 7

He flies around the Galaxy all alone in just a little tiny scoutcraft?

2001, Douglas Kendall, Battle of Infinity City, page 298

In the ensuing years it had never come to that, yet every scoutcraft was equipped with a self-destruct mechanism, and every commander was prepared at all times to activate it.

2006, Margaret Wander Bonanno, Strangers From The Sky, Pocket Books, page 32

The nearer they closed in; tiny scoutcrafts could be seen continuingly migrating to and from them.

2013, Chris J. Berry, The Celestial Window, page 137

(rare, science fiction, ufology) A spacecraft used for scouting.


Cerean

Pata'na was a Roman goddess who appears with greatly varied names, sometimes as a derivation from Ceres or a Cerean deity, and sometimes as Ceres herself.

1892, Charles Leland, Etruscan Roman Remains, published 2007, page 233

Bouncing is something to be avoided in the low Cerean gravity: any bouncing here would have lifted me up against the café's green and white striped awning — and maybe on through it to interface violently with the 60 meters of carbonaceous chondrite rock that separate Clarkeville from the surface.

1994, Hayford Peirce, “Six Million Solid Gold Belter Buckles”, in Jonathan White: Stockbroker in Orbit, Wildside Press, published 2001, page 45

If so, a commonality of Cerean life with Terran and possible Martian life ... could provide a strong corroboration of the "Ceres origin" hypothesis.

2012, Joop M. Houtkooper, Life on Earth and other Planetary Bodies, page 168


Westman Islander

Westman Islander (plural Westman Islanders)


Arretine

From Latin ārrētīnus, from Ārrētium (“Arezzo”) + -īnus (relation suffix).

Of, from or pertaining to Arezzo, Italy.


Romulan

From Romulus + -an. From the Star Trek franchise, in which they are described as being from the planet Romulus, drawing inspiration from the Roman origin story of Romulus and Remus.

"Some sort of Romulan game," Riker said thoughtfully. "Trying to make us guess what they're up to."

1999, Peter Allen David, Double or Nothing

"He looks like a Romulan." Suddenly, her attention is focused on him and she calls across the street, "Hey, monkey Romulan, sort it out!"

...the law vaporizes like a Romulan warrior into the ions of space.

2001, Michael W McConnell, Robert F Cochran, Angela C Carmella, Christian perspectives on legal thought

A member of a fictional alien race, described as being cunning and opportunistic.


Cornhusker

(informal) A native or resident of the American state of Nebraska.


cornhusker

(usually capitalized) A person who is a native or resident of the U.S. state of Nebraska.


Saskabusher

/ˈsæskəbʊʃɚ/

(Canada, informal, humorous) A native or inhabitant of the city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.


Cappadocian

/kæpəˈdəʊʃən/

Cappadocian Greek
Cappadocian Greek#English


Madrileño

en-adj

Madrileño (comparative more Madrileño, superlative most Madrileño)

more Madrileño (comparative)
most Madrileño (superlative)

Of or pertaining to Madrid, or to its inhabitants.


Zaragozan

Saragossan; someone from Saragossa (Zaragoza)


Navarran

Navarran (comparative more Navarran, superlative most Navarran)

more Navarran (comparative)
most Navarran (superlative)


Malagan

[…] in his handling of this affair; a Malagan ambassador praised his foresight and wisdom, which resulted in peace and tranquility in Malaga.

1974, Andrew Handler, The Zīrids of Granada

From Málaga or otherwise related to the city of Málaga.


Bilbaoan

During the French occupation, Bilbaoans were likely to have been exposed to some French culture and influence.

1989, Barbara Rosen, Arriaga the Forgotten Genius: The Short Life of a Basque Composer

Only about 10 percent of Bilbaoans speak Euskara, as compared with 35 to 40 percent of the inhabitants of Donostia. Such a contradiction is at the very core of both the difficulties and the dynamism of the Basque Country.

2007, William A. Douglass, Joseba Zulaika, Basque culture: anthropological perspectives


Middle Easterner

en-noun

Middle Easterner (plural Middle Easterners)


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.


Callistan

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Callisto.


Tripolitanian

An inhabitant or native of Tripolitania.


MIB

MIB (countable and uncountable, plural MIBs)

(US, ufology, conspiracy theorists) Initialism of man in black.

(US, in the plural) Initialism of men in black.

Initialism of man in black.
Initialism of men in black.


Novgorodian

en-adj

Novgorodian (comparative more Novgorodian, superlative most Novgorodian)

more Novgorodian (comparative)
most Novgorodian (superlative)


Windward Islander

en-noun

Windward Islander (plural Windward Islanders)


Society Islander

Society Islander (plural Society Islanders)


Midway Islander

Midway Islander (plural Midway Islanders)


Leeward Islander

Leeward Islander (plural Leeward Islanders)


Sandwich Islander

Sandwich Islander (plural Sandwich Islanders)

(obsolete) A person from the Sandwich Islands now known as Hawaii. Replaced by Hawaiian.


South Islander

A person from the South Island, New Zealand.


Aleutian Islander

Aleutian Islander (plural Aleutian Islanders)


Easter Islander

Easter Islander (plural Easter Islanders)


Ascension Islander

Ascension Islander (plural Ascension Islanders)


North Islander

A person from North Island, New Zealand.


Suebi

From Latin Suēbī, from Proto-Germanic *swēbaz.

A group of Germanic tribes living mostly near Elbe in what is now central Germany around the first century BCE.


Massachusettsian

That he was a Virginian and I a Massachusettsian.

1802 [1962], John Adams, edited by L.H. Butterfield, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, volume 3, Cambridge, Massachusetts, page 336

A young Massachusettsian (is this correct orthography?), by name Nathaniel II. Bishop, a mere lad of seventeen, who, prompted by a love of nature, starts off from his New England home, reaches the La Plata River, and coolly "walks" to Valparaiso, across pampa and cordillera, a distance of more than a thousand miles !

1869 January, Mayne Reid, “Trifles”, in Onward, G.W. Carleton, page 82

Chadwick (54), though a Massachusettsian by birth, residence, and position is not so by preordination. He has a directness of thought, a humour, and a power of seeing himself as others see him that smack more of London or Paris than of Boston.

1916, Charles Villiers Stanford, A History of Music, The Macmillan Company, page 324

Much to the chagrin of many a Massachusettsian, on January 29, 1 842, Secretary of State Daniel Webster dispatched directions to the US ambassador to Great Britain in support of Calhoun's resolutions.

1997, Maggie Montesinos Sale, The Slumbering Volcano: American Slave Ship Revolts and the Production of Rebellious Masculinity, Duke University Press, page 131

The minor appointments were the Virginian Edmund Randolph as attorney general and the Massachusettsian Henry Knox as secretary of war.

2003, John P. Diggins, John Adams, Macmillan, pages 42–3

(dated) A native or resident of Massachusetts.


Tehrani

A native or resident of the city of Tehran.


Pythian

From Latin Pythius, from Ancient Greek πύθιος (púthios, “belonging to Pytho, the older name of Delphi and its environs”): compare French pythien.

der

Of or relating to Delphi or to its priestess, Pythia.


Bessarabian

en-adj

Bessarabian (comparative more Bessarabian, superlative most Bessarabian)

more Bessarabian (comparative)
most Bessarabian (superlative)


United Statian

United Statian (comparative more United Statian, superlative most United Statian)

more United Statian (comparative)
most United Statian (superlative)

Often, education in the US tends to be technocratic and anti-intellectual. United Statian students are not typically prepared, that is, prepared to accept the responsibility of becoming global citizens...

2004, Bronson, Matthew Clay, Writing passage: Academic literacy socialization among ESL graduate students, a multiple case study, University of California, Davis, p. 191. Retrieved from https://search.proquest.com/openview/8a38f0ed5aae7a59c82959697516d8d2/1.pdf

Bilingual/ bicultural students do not fit easily into the prevailing United Statian racial categories.

2010, Lourdes Diaz Soto et al., Teaching Bilingual/Bicultural Children, page 71

As Patterson asserts about the team, which includes an archaeology school primarily for United Statian and British students, Carriacou is an attractive place to conduct research ...

2014, Carla Guerrón Montero, “Tourism, cultural heritage and regional identities in the Isle of Spice”, in Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, →DOI, pages 1–21

The aptitude of current teachers [...] declarative level of pluralism, and their attitudes or actual behaviours; or the United Statian challenges of growing re-segregation, inequality in school funding, and childhood poverty rates with increases of more than 50% since the 1970s.

2020, Lasso-Rodriguez, G., & Gil-Herrera, R., “Training the Teachers with Assistance of Robotic Process Automation”, in INTED2020 Proceedings, →DOI, pages 8714–8720


spaceling

Thanks to the latest graphics technology, almost all of those spacelings will be ready for their close-ups.

2007 October 16, Seth Schiesel, “Elves Are Out, Aliens In”, in New York Times


Kabuli

From Kabul + -i, or directly from Persian کابلی (“Kabuli”).

But they are physically no match for the Kabulis and every Kabuli considers himself more than a match for any number of travellers from the plains.

1918, The Indian Review, volume 19, page 11


Jutlander

/ˈd͡ʒʌtlændəɹ/


Monrovian

A native or inhabitant of Monrovia, capital city of Liberia.


English-Canadian

English-Canadian (comparative more English-Canadian, superlative most English-Canadian)

more English-Canadian (comparative)
most English-Canadian (superlative)

Of or relating to anglophone (English-speaking, English-language) Canadians, of English Canada.

kanada anglalingva

anglophone Canadian, English-speaking Canadian, English-language Canadian

Of or relating to Canadians of English ancestry or descent (Anglo-Canadians).


South Sudanese

From South Sudan + -ese, after Sudanese.

A person from South Sudan or of South Sudanese descent.


Feejeean

Feejeean (comparative more Feejeean, superlative most Feejeean)

more Feejeean (comparative)
most Feejeean (superlative)


Philadelphian

My grandmother was a Philadelphian, having come out from that city after the war.

1932, Amelia Earhart, chapter 1, in The Fun of It, Harcourt Brace and Company, page 4

The promenade was filled with Philadelphians of all color and kind.

2019, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer, Penguin Books (2020), page 194

A person who originates from or lives in Philadelphia.


Segovian

Segovian (comparative more Segovian, superlative most Segovian)

more Segovian (comparative)
most Segovian (superlative)


Pamplonan

Pamplonan (comparative more Pamplonan, superlative most Pamplonan)

more Pamplonan (comparative)
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Columbian

(dated or poetic) American, from the United States of America


Columbian

en-noun

Columbian (countable and uncountable, plural Columbians)

(dated or poetic) An American, a person from the United States of America.


Eburones

A Belgic people of Germanic or Celtic descent who lived in the upper north of Gaul in ancient times.


Schleswiger

From Schleswig + -er, or directly from the German Schleswiger.

There I met another German, or rather a Schleswiger, by the name of Bondiz, who was also a merchant.

1979 (reprint), Elise Amalie Tvede Wærenskjold, The Lady with the Pen, page 79


Scanian

The dialect of Swedish spoken in the region of Scania.


Hyderabadi

A native or resident of Hyderabad, India.


Wake Islander

On the other side of the coin is the story of a fluttery lady visitor who glanced at a flag over the air terminal. ‘My goodness!”’ she said. “Isn’t that wonderful—to see flying up there the same tattered flag that the marines refused to surrender to the Japanese?”’
The Wake Islander beside her just smiled. He didn’t trouble to explain that the marines did surrender, flags and all, or that the terminal colors are tattered because the wind blows a lot. This was near the end of the month, almost time for the new flag which goes up every thirty days.

1956 January 28, William L. Worden, “Exiles on a Pinpoint”, in The Saturday Evening Post, page 84

On January 20, the Nitta Maru departed Yokohama and headed toward the Japanese-controlled Chinese port at Shanghai. During the voyage, the Japanese committed an atrocity that no Wake Islander learned about until later.

2003, John Wukovits, Pacific Alamo: The Battle for Wake Island, New American Library, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 207


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


Cimbrian

(uncountable) The Bavarian Germanic language of these people, which is a variety of German.


West German

Person who comes from or lives in West Germany.

vesttysker

person who comes from or lives in West Germany


moonling

From moon + -ling. Compare moon-related origins of lunacy and lunatic.

The sky was not quite as blue as her—Thunderation, he was no moonling!

2011, Barbara Metzger, A Suspicious Affair

Remaining there long enough to hear Those words that moonling longs to hear...I love you

2013, Zara Borthwick, Nicholas Arnold, Wonderful, page 55

Here he was, reputed to be a rake among rakes, but he discovered, where Thea was concerned, he was as vulnerable and uncertain as the greenest moonling in love for the first time.

2017, Shirlee Busbee, Swear by Moonlight

(archaic or poetic) One who is lovesick; one who moons over a beloved.

"I see. He's a black man. But Jacob Millhaven is not black. Eldridge was left on his doorstep as a baby, and the philosopher adopted him." "Oh! Then he's a moonling! He doesn't seem to suffer from any stigma."

2011, M. P. Rogers, Oona Paraselene, page 140

A shy moonling hangs on the suit of an astronaut and is taken back to earth.

1981, Ruth Beall Heinig, Lyda Stillwell, Creative Drama for the Classroom Teacher, page 248

For a given walking speed, will an earthling astronaut or a moonling do less, equal, or more work when taking a stroll on the Moon, and by what factor?

2010, Michael M. Domach, Introduction to Biomedical Engineering, page 204

This, together with the 'balloon manufactured entirely of dirty newspaper' in which the dwarf/moonling descends at the tale's opening, points to some self-referential satire on behalf of Poe, a newspaperman himself.

2016, Adam Roberts, The History of Science Fiction, page 142

(science fiction) Someone from the Moon.


Etrurian

A native or inhabitant of ancient Etruria.


Helvetic

en-adj

Helvetic (comparative more Helvetic, superlative most Helvetic)

more Helvetic (comparative)
most Helvetic (superlative)

From Latin helveticus, from Helvetii (“the Helvetii”).

the Helvetic confederacy

Helvetic states

Of or pertaining to the Helvetii, the ancient inhabitants of the Alps, now Switzerland, or to the modern states and inhabitant of the Alpine regions.


Havanese

A native or inhabitant of Havana in Cuba.


Pictish

Pictish (comparative more Pictish, superlative most Pictish)

more Pictish (comparative)
most Pictish (superlative)

The Gothic monarch and the Pictish peer


Biscayan

The westernmost of the modern varieties of the Basque language, spoken in Biscay and neighbouring parts of Álava and Gipuzkoa.


reptiloid

(science fiction) A reptilian humanoid creature.


Yooper

(informal) A native or inhabitant of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.


Mothman

(cryptozoology, ufology) A legendary creature, regarded as a cryptid or alien, reportedly seen in West Virginia in the mid-1960s.


Ceylonese

Ceylonese (comparative more Ceylonese, superlative most Ceylonese)

more Ceylonese (comparative)
most Ceylonese (superlative)


Alemanni

From Latin Alemannī (“the confederation of German tribes related to Suebi who lived near the upper reaches of Danube”), from Proto-Germanic *Alamanniz, corresponding to *allaz + *mann-.

der

The hasty army of volunteers gradually coalesced into a great and permanent nation, and, as it was composed from so many different tribes, assumed the name of Alemanni, or Allmen ; to denote at once their various lineage, and their common bravery.

1846, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, page 271

The Alemanni were originally composed of fragments of several Germanic peoples, and they remained a loosely knit confederation of tribes in the Suebi group (see Suebi).

2011 September 15, “Alemanni”, in Encyclopædia Britannica

A group of Germanic peoples living between the Rhine, Main, and Danube Rivers from the third to the sixth century.


Volsci

(historical) An ancient Italic people and culture from the first century of the Roman republic.

Volsques

an ancient Italic people and culture from the first century of the Roman republic


starman

(science fiction) An alien; a person who comes from another star system.

(science fiction) An inhabitant of a star.


Turcoman

Borrowed from Medieval Latin Turcomannus, from Classical Persian ترکمان (turkamān). Doublet of Turkman and Turkmen.


Slavonian

en-adj

Slavonian (comparative more Slavonian, superlative most Slavonian)

more Slavonian (comparative)
most Slavonian (superlative)

Of or relating to the Slavs or their language.


Yprois

First attested in nominal use in May 1845 and in adjectival use in 1890; from the French noun Yprois and adjective yprois, both from Ypres.

A few amongst them even fled, some of whom in endeavouring to swim across the Lys were drowned, and others who made for the city were stopped by the Yprois who manned the ramparts, and driven back to the fight.

1845 May, “The Battle of the Spurs”, in Colburn’s United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal, II, page 20

They were the work of the Yprois Taillebert, who, both in stone and wood, has left in his native town and its neighbourhood incontestible proofs of his activity and talent.

1910, Thomas Francis Bumpus, The Cathedrals and Churches of Belgium, page 123

David Nicholas […] provides fascinating detail about the mutual indebtedness of the Yprois at the end of the thirteenth century.

2010 June, Martha C. Howell, “Introduction”, in Commerce Before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600, footnote 42, page 26

An inhabitant of the city of Ypres; (also, more broadly) an inhabitant of the municipality of the same name.


EBE

Initialism of extraterrestrial biological entity.


Thuringian

/θəˈɹɪn.d͡ʒi.ən/

A member of an ancient Germanic tribe inhabiting central Germany

Thüringer

a member of an ancient Germanic tribe inhabiting central Germany


Rhemish

Rhemish (comparative more Rhemish, superlative most Rhemish)

more Rhemish (comparative)
most Rhemish (superlative)


Utahan

Utahan (comparative more Utahan, superlative most Utahan)

more Utahan (comparative)
most Utahan (superlative)


ancient astronaut

en-noun

ancient astronaut (plural ancient astronauts)

Is it possible for scientists to demonstrate that ancient astronauts have ever been here? No.

2001, Charles M. Wynn, Arthur W. Wiggins, Sidney Harris, Quantum leaps in the wrong direction: where real science ends-- and pseudoscience begins, Joseph Henry Press, page 58

Although academics have spent many hours showing the errors in von Däniken's reasoning, the Ancient Astronaut notion remains alive.

2002, Michael Shermer, The Skeptic encyclopedia of pseudoscience, Volume 2, ABC-CLIO, page 530

According to certain authors, intelligent extraterrestrial beings called ancient astronauts or ancient aliens have visited Earth, and this contacts is connected with the origins or development of human cultures, technologies, and religions.

2011, George Romero, The Rescue, George Romero, page 32

Any of the extraterrestrial beings that, according to the pseudoscientific belief of paleocontact, visited Earth in the distant past, influencing human culture, technology, or religion.

ancien astronaute

extraterrestrial associated with paleocontact


UFO religion

Raelians follow a UFO religion.

More particularly, and important for understanding much UFO religions, is Blavatsky's belief that certain masters dwelt on Venus.

2003, Christopher Hugh Partridge, UFO religions, Routledge, page 10

UFO religions are even stranger than science fiction.

2004, Susan J. Palmer, Aliens adored: Raël's UFO religion, Rutgers University Press, page 3

UFO religions drink deeply from the waters of occulture, while, at the same time, seeking to reconcile their ideas with a contemporary secular and scientific worldview.

2006, Christopher Hugh Partridge, The re-enchantment of the West: alternative spiritualities, sacralization, popular culture, and occulture, Continuum International Publishing Group, page 167

A religion in which extraterrestrials figure prominently.


BCer

British Columbian
British Columbian#English


Negrense

A native or inhabitant of the Filipino island of Negros.


Cyrenian

en-adj

Cyrenian (comparative more Cyrenian, superlative most Cyrenian)

more Cyrenian (comparative)
most Cyrenian (superlative)

(chiefly historical) Synonym of Cyrenaic, of or related to Cyrenaicism.

(chiefly historical) Synonym of Cyrenaican, of or related to Cyrenaica.


Cyrenian

(chiefly historical) Synonym of Cyrenaic, an adherent of Cyrenaicism.

(chiefly historical) Synonym of Cyrenaican, a native or inhabitant of Cyrenaica.


Gaditanian

Gaditanian (comparative more Gaditanian, superlative most Gaditanian)

more Gaditanian (comparative)
most Gaditanian (superlative)

From Latin Gādītānus, from Gādēs (“Cadiz”), + -ian.

Of, from, or relating to Cádiz in Spain.


Arverni

/ɑːɹˈvɜːɹnaɪ/

(historical) A member of an ancient, powerful Gallic tribe living in what is now the Auvergne region of France, who opposed the Romans on several occasions.


Canary Islander

en-noun

Canary Islander (plural Canary Islanders)


Cyrenaic

en-adj

Cyrenaic (comparative more Cyrenaic, superlative most Cyrenaic)

more Cyrenaic (comparative)
most Cyrenaic (superlative)

From Latin Cyrenaicus, from Ancient Greek Κῡρηνᾰῐ̈κός (Kūrēnaïkós), from Κῡρηναῖος (Kūrēnaîos, “Cyrenian, n.”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic: forming adjectives”), from Κυρήνη (Kurḗnē, “Cyrene”) + -ιος (-ios, “-y: forming demonyms”), q.v. Equivalent to Cyrene + -ic or a backformation from Cyrenaica.

(chiefly historical) Of or related to Cyrenaicism, the philosophical school founded by Aristippus of Cyrene and codified by Aristippus the Younger.

(historical) Synonym of Cyrenian, of or related to Cyrene.

(chiefly historical) Synonym of Cyrenaican, of or related to Cyrenaica, the area around Cyrene in northeastern Libya.


Cyrenaic

(chiefly historical) A member or adherent of Cyrenaicism, the philosophical school founded by Aristippus of Cyrene and codified by Aristippus the Younger.

(historical) Synonym of Cyrenian, a person of or from Cyrene.

(chiefly historical) Synonym of Cyrenaican, a person of or from Cyrenaica, the area around Cyrene in northeastern Libya.


Parian

en-noun

Parian (countable and uncountable, plural Parians)

(countable) A native or inhabitant of Paros.


Atellan

From Latin Atellanus, from Atella (“an ancient town of the Osci, in Campania”).

A kind of farcical drama performed at Atella.


Iqalummiuq

An inhabitant of the city of Iqaluit, Canada


Iqalungmiut

One or more inhabitants of Iqaluit (formerly Frobisher Bay).


Iqalungmiut

en-adj

Iqalungmiut (comparative more Iqalungmiut, superlative most Iqalungmiut)

more Iqalungmiut (comparative)
most Iqalungmiut (superlative)

Of or relating to Iqaluit (formerly Frobisher Bay).


Senones

Via Latin from Ancient Greek Σήνωνες (Sḗnōnes), originally the capital of the Gaulish people of the same name.


Hiroshiman

A native or inhabitant of Hiroshima, Japan.


East Frisian

The Frisian language spoken in East Frisia (northwest Germany), of which Saterland Frisian is the last remaining variety.

The Low German dialect spoken in East Frisia.


East Frisian

Pertaining to East Frisia, the East Frisians, the East Frisian language or the East Frisian Low German dialect.


Meccawee

(obsolete) Meccan (native or inhabitant of Mecca)


Sciot

(dated) A native or inhabitant of Scio; a Chiot


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, page 300


Smyrniot

After remaining a few days at Smyrna, we set out to pay a visit to the ruins of Ephesus, which are situated on the shore of the Gulf of Skalanova, about thirty-five miles south of Smyrna. Our equipage consisted of a Greek servant, Spiridon, or, as he was usually called, Spiro; Achmet, a janissary; and an old Smyrniot, proprietor of the horses which we rode.

1829, James Emerson, “Letter IV. Ephesus.”, in Letters from the Ægean, New York, N.Y.: Printed by J. & J. Harper, 82 Cliff St.; sold by Collins and Hannay, [et al.], →OCLC, page 71

(historical) A native or inhabitant of Smyrna (modern-day Izmir, Turkey).


Wacoan

en-adj

Wacoan (comparative more Wacoan, superlative most Wacoan)

more Wacoan (comparative)
most Wacoan (superlative)


Guernseyman

Someone from Guernsey; a Guernsey native or inhabitant.


Kelper

(slang, dated) Alternative form of kelper; a Falkland Islander, native to the Falkland Islands.


Malvinian

(rare) Someone from the Malvinas (the Falkland Islands).


Liparian

Liparian (comparative more Liparian, superlative most Liparian)

more Liparian (comparative)
most Liparian (superlative)

Of or relating to Lipari, the largest of the Aeolian Islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the north coast of Sicily, Italy.


Sidonian

(historical) A native or inhabitant of Sidon.


Hyblaean

Hyblaean (comparative more Hyblaean, superlative most Hyblaean)

more Hyblaean (comparative)
most Hyblaean (superlative)

Borrowed from French Hybléen, via Latin hyblaeus, ultimately from Ancient Greek ὑβλαῖος (hublaîos, “Hyblaean”).

der

Of or pertaining to the Hyblaean Mountains.


Hyblaean

en-noun

Hyblaean (countable and uncountable, plural Hyblaeans)

(countable) An inhabitant of the Hyblaean area, South-eastern Sicily, or a person from that ancestry.

(uncountable, cooking) A style of cuisine or individual dishes of or associated with the same area or Hyblaean people.


Hyblaean

The dialects of Sicily spoken in the Hyblaean Mountains.


Faroish

From Faroe + -ish, after Icelandic færeyskur.

[...] manned by the queerest old carles, who by way of salute as the boat touched our side, shuffled off their Faroish caps in a very undignified manner.

1920, John William Mackail, The life of William Morris

Of or pertaining to the Faroe Islands, Faroish people or the Faroish language; Faroese.

ֆարերյան

pertaing to the Faroish language, people or Faroe Islands


Faroish

A person from the Faroe Islands, Faroe Islander.


Faroish

The same story is found in Icelandic, Norse, Faroish, and Estnish ballads, as well as in the Swedish and Danish, and a nearly related one in many other ballads or tales — German, Polish, Lithuanian, [...]

The language of the Faroe Islands, closely related to Icelandic, and more distantly to Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish.


Pleiadean

(science fiction, ufology) An alien being from the Pleiades.


Nutmegger

From nutmeg + -er. Connecticut is sometimes known as the Nutmeg State.

CONNECTICUT NIGHT. Thursday night was assigned to the Nutmeggers, but the exercises could not begin until nearly nine o'clock, because the Luray and Antietam excursions did not arrive in camp on time.

1886, Francis Henry Buffum, Sheridan's veterans: No. II, page 32

Nutmegger? Baystater? College slider? A mid-week ticket at Otis Ridge, Mass., will cost you $10 on Tuesdays (for Connecticut residents) and Thursdays (for Massachusetts residents).

1996 September, Dick Needham, “Side Tracks”, in Ski, page 19E

A unifying characteristic of the Connecticut Yankee, however, is a propensity for inventiveness. Nutmeggers are historically known for both their intellectual abilities and their desire to have a little fun.

2008, Fodor's New England, 28th edition, Random House Digital, [page http://books.google.com/books?id=jtT-EjyG-eYC&pg=PA274&dq=nutmegger 274]

Slowly, since the mid-1950s when I became a Nutmegger, Connecticut has evolved into a food lover's paradise.

2010, Patricia Brooks, Food Lovers' Guide to Connecticut: Best Local Specialties, Markets, Recipes, Restaurants, and Events, [page http://books.google.com/books?id=0Z3C80ImmFMC&pg=PR9&dq=nutmegger ix]


Aequian

The Italic language spoken by the Aequi.


Xiongnu

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 匈奴 (Xiōngnú). Possibly a doublet of Hun; their relationship to the Huns is disputed.

(historical) An ancient nomadic-based people that formed a state or confederation north of the agriculture-based empire of the Han dynasty.


ghost rocket

A poem in Copenhagen’s Berlingske Tidende, July 31, 1946, last page, made reference to a recent sensational ghost rocket sighting over Byen, expressing relief that the “rocket” was actually a meteor:

2001, Robert E. Bartholomew, Little Green Men, Meowing Nuns, and Head-hunting Panics: A Study of Mass Psychogenic Illness and Social Delusion, McFarland, page 273

Many ghost rocket sightings came from Sweden, which is near the Soviet Union. U.S. and British officials convinced the Swedes to study reports of the ghost rockets. The Swedes found pieces of metal that they though came from crashed ghost rockets.

2011, Michael Burgan, Andrew Nichols, Searching for Aliens, UFOs, and Men in Black, Capstone Press, page 11

The Swedish experts claimed that some 20 percent of the ghost rocket reports appeared to be neither aircraft nor natural phenomena.

2012, Ronald Story, The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters, Constable & Robinson Ltd, page 243

unidentified flying objects
unidentified flying objects

(ufology) Any of the rocket- or missile-shaped unidentified flying objects sighted in 1946, mostly in Sweden and nearby countries.

spökraket

rocket shaped UFOs sighted in 1946 in Sweden


black triangle

Somewhere behind that blinking yellow light that black triangle was hovering, (or moving only a few miles per hour), in our direction, straight at us.

2005, Bill Foster, Peggy Foster, Nadine Wheeler, The Black Triangle Abduction, The Invisible College Press, page 22

Note: The black triangle is a commonly seen UFO.

2007, Craig R. Lang, The Cosmic Bridge, Close Encounters and Human Destiny, lulu.com, page 4

On Thursday, July 15, 2004, I flew to Denver, Colorado, where I was scheduled to speak at the annual symposium of the Mutual UFO Network on the subject of a particular type of UFO that has become known as the “Black Triangle,” and one that has been seen regularly in the skies of practically every corner of the planet for approximately the last two decades.

2009, Nick Redfern, Memoirs of a Monster Hunter, ReadHowYouWant.com, page 105

Just three years after the Belgian black triangle incident, a similar craft appeared over RAF Cosford and RAF Shawbury.

2011, William J. Birnes, The Everything UFO Book: An Investigation of Sightings, Cover-ups, and the Quest for Extraterrestrial Life, Adams Media, page 229

(ufology) One of a class of triangle-shaped unidentified flying objects, usually with a light in each corner.


Haunebu

This technology led to the amazing German flying saucers of the Haunebu and Vril classes built under SS auspices.

2003, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity, NYU Press, page 295

[…] and what crashed at Roswell was most likely a Haunebu.

2007, James Sheridan, The Pandora Prescription, Sterling & Ross Publishers, page 17

However, some weeks after Ger-many surrendered, both Haunebu and Vril craft were spotted in the skies over occupied Germany.

2010, George Romero, The Rescue, Lotus Vision Publishing Company, page 165

(ufology, plural "Haunebus") Any of a class of flying saucers supposedly built by the Nazis.


Vril

Coined by British statesman and author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in the 1871 science fiction novel The Coming Race, later titled Vril, apparently as a clipping of virile.

coined

Coordinate term: Haunebu

Operation Highjump has turned out to be a hot topic for UFO conspiracy theorists over recent years, who claim it was a secret US military campaign to defeat and destroy supposed secret Nazi facilities in Antarctica and seize the German Vril flying discs, and the Thule mercury propelled spacecraft.

2012, Jack Follett, Special Report 2011: Hitler's Secret UFO Weapons, BoD – Books on Demand, page 38

(ufology, attributive) A kind of flying saucer supposedly built by the Nazis.


Transalpine

Someone from a country the other side of the Alps, seen from the point of view of Italy; a non-Italian.


Kinshasan

en-adj

Kinshasan (comparative more Kinshasan, superlative most Kinshasan)

more Kinshasan (comparative)
most Kinshasan (superlative)

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Of or relating to Kinshasa, capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.


Israelian

From Israel + -ian, in the historical sense coined by American Jewish theologian Harold Louis Ginsberg in 1982 in contrast to Israelite.

coined

(historical) Of or pertaining to the northern kingdom of ancient Israel, its people, or their language.


Candiot

en-adj

Candiot (comparative more Candiot, superlative most Candiot)

more Candiot (comparative)
most Candiot (superlative)

Compare English Cypriot and French candiote.

(historical or obsolete) Of or relating to Candia (now called Heraklion).


Modenese

Modenese (comparative more Modenese, superlative most Modenese)

more Modenese (comparative)
most Modenese (superlative)

Of or relating to Modena or its inhabitants.


Modenese

en-noun

Modenese (countable and uncountable, plural Modenese)

(countable) A native or inhabitant of Modena.

(uncountable) A dialect of Emilian spoken in the province of Modena.


pelicanist

From pelican + -ist. Coined by Jerome Clark in reference to claims that Kenneth Arnold’s 1947 UFO sighting was pelicans.

Kottmeyer and others who use the psychosocial hypothesis constantly produce evidence to support their ideas, whereas the ETH proponents can produce only cranky ideas about magnetic, anti-gravity or interdimensional saucers, accompanied by a constant whining about "sceptics" and "debunkers" (not to mention "armchair ufologists" and "pelicanists").

2000 November 22, “Blue Resonant Human” (username), “::: Should Saucers Spin? :::”, in alt.alien.research, Usenet

Meanwhile, those of us who’ve experienced UFOs in various ways are called mentally ill, intellectually challenged, spiritually needy, liars, drunks, drug users, attention getters, drama queens, and more. Those all are worse than being called a thug, skeptibunkie, or Pelicanist. (Pelicanist is a term coined by UFO researcher Jerome Clark.)

2006 September 12, “LordOfThyNight” (username), “The Usual Purple Tinged Hyperbole About UFOs”, in The Paranormal & Ghost Society, Usenet

As opposed to... Skepticism of the pelicanist flavor perhaps ?

2009 November 29, “Tom Booth” (username), “For Serena,”, in alt.fan.landmark, Usenet

(chiefly ufology, derogatory) Someone who attempts to explain away UFO reports by means of any explanation, however illogical.


Tall White

All of the Tall White scout craft were very high performance vehicles.

2007, Charles James Hall, Millennial Hospitality IV: After Hours, AuthorHouse, page 322

No one is sure when the Tall Whites arrived on earth, some saying in the Pre-Columbian period […]

2007, Gregory L. Reece, UFO religion: inside flying saucer cults and culture, I. B. Tauris, page 76

However, in the years that followed, such descriptions became so common that this type of alien became known as the Tall White.

2011, Stuart A. Kallen, Aliens, ReferencePoint Press, page 26

(ufology) A member of a certain race of extraterrestrials


Capetonian

From Cape Town (with town changed to -ton) + -ian.


Litvak

Borrowed from Yiddish ליטוואַק (litvak).

A small man, sunburned as a gypsy, in a torn blouse, with a jet-black beard and enormous flashing eyes, was expostulating in a hoarse voice with a peppery Litvak accent, gesticulating violently and flinging his head from side to side.

1950, Isaac Bashevis Singer, chapter 4, in A. H. Gross et al., transl., The Family Moskat, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 60

The rabbi under the silk wedding canopy, held up by split triangular poles of quartered eucalyptus exuding an aromatic sap, is ill at ease but ready for business. He’s a middle-aged Litvak, a stocky man in mud-spotted trousers that drip over dried muddy heels.

Kibbutz Kinneret’s famed teigelach, the honey-drenched cookies beloved by Litvaks, were parceled up in a Red Cross package, intended to reach one of its members who had fallen into Syrian captivity during the 1973 Yom Kippur war. What better way to guarantee that he would know the food came from home?

2013 April 16, Jonathan Cummings, “Digging Deep Into the Collective Kitchens of Israel”, in The Forward

A Lithuanian Jew, or an Ashkenazi Jew from the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania.


Wuhanese

Within China, Wuhanese have become feared and discriminated against because of the epidemic. Yet the vast majority of people in Wuhan as well as the rest of China stick to meals of grains, tofu, pork and veg.

2020 May 15, Yuan Yang, “Letter from China: Sichuan goes with the flow”, in Financial Times


Pacific Northwesterner

Pacific Northwesterner (plural Pacific Northwesterners)

Shaken and upset, Esther did what any Pacific Northwesterner would: she drove directly to a coffee shop and ordered a latte.

2001, Patricia K. Lichen, Passionate Slugs and Hollywood Frogs: An Uncommon Field Guide to Northwest Backyards, Sasquatch Books, page 121

A resident of the Pacific Northwest region of North America.


Cascadian

Cascadians gathered enough political strength in Congress to defeat proposed border-crossing fees, and they got approval for dedicated commuter lanes and smart cards to speed transit at the Peace Arch crossing.

2007, Reginald C. Stuart, Dispersed Relations: Americans and Canadians in Upper North America, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, page 270

A resident of the Cascadia bioregion of North America.


Lefkosian

(possibly offensive or proscribed) Synonym of Nicosian: of, from, or pertaining to Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus and Northern Cyprus.


Lefkosian

(possibly offensive or proscribed) Synonym of Nicosian: a person from Nicosia.


South Ossetian

A person from South Ossetia or of South Ossetian descent.

eteläossetialainen

person from or descended from South Ossetia


Cordoban

en-adj

Cordoban (comparative more Cordoban, superlative most Cordoban)

more Cordoban (comparative)
most Cordoban (superlative)


Cordovan

/ˈkɔːɹdəvən/


Frenchperson

en-noun

Frenchperson (plural Frenchpersons or Frenchpeople)

Frenchpersons (plural)
Frenchpeople (plural)

(uncommon) A person of a French ancestry or a French nationality.


Emilian

A language spoken in the historical region of Emilia, closely related to Romagnol.

emilià

a language spoken in the historical region of Emilia, closely related to Romagnol


Sealander

Sealanders claim they will not be subject to the e-commerce laws coming into force in Britain and elsewhere, and plan to establish an offshore "data haven"[…]

2000, New Scientist, volume 166, numbers 2237-2244, page 17

Unlike Bates and his fellow Sealanders, however, Harman didn't get away with this and was forced to stop producing currency and pay the British government a £5 fine.

2009, Henry Hemming, In Search of the English Eccentric


Arkansan

/ˈɑː(ɹ)kənˌsɔːn/

A native or resident of the state of Arkansas in the United States of America.


Paduan

(historical) An imitation coin resembling old Roman bronze coins, made at Padua in the 16th century.


Curonian

An extinct Baltic language spoken by the Curonians.


Cuman

From Medieval Latin Cumani, from Byzantine Greek Κουμάνοι (Koumánoi), perhaps ultimately from the name of the Kuma River.

(historical) A member of a nomadic Turkic people of central Asia who ruled parts of Eurasia and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages.


Texican

(informal) A resident or denizen of Texas who identifies as Mexican.


Equatoguinean

en-adj

Equatoguinean (comparative more Equatoguinean, superlative most Equatoguinean)

more Equatoguinean (comparative)
most Equatoguinean (superlative)


Equatoguinean

We have already seen, in Chapter II, that Equatoguineans like Ilonbe and Loboch imply that they feel imprisoned.

2007, Emily Ann Knudson-Vilaseca, Embodying the Un/home: African Immigration to Portugal and Spain

Many of the Equatoguineans I met referred to this group as "monkey counters" and wondered out loud why anyone would want to go around counting monkeys.


Bonner

en-proper noun

Bonner (countable and uncountable, plural Bonners)

An unincorporated community in Morrill County, Nebraska, United States.


Khazar

The origin is unknown. Attested as Arabic خَزَر (ḵazar), Byzantine Greek Χάζαροι (Kházaroi), Hebrew כּוּזָרִים (Kuzarim), Middle Chinese 突厥曷薩 (*tʰuət̚-kɨut̚ ɦɑt̚-sɑt̚) and Middle Chinese 突厥可薩部 (*tʰuət̚-kɨut̚ kʰɑ^X-sɑt̚ buo^X), Latin Gazari and Cosar, Old Armenian խազիրք (xazirkʻ), Old East Slavic козаринъ (kozarinŭ), Persian خزر (xazar), Russian хаза́р (xazár), Tatar хәзәр (xäzär), Turkish Hazar, etc. Compare Old Uyghur 𐰴𐱁𐰺 (qšr¹), Middle Persian [script needed] (Kesar), Tibetan [script needed] (ge-sar).
See Wikipedia's article for etymology.

unk

unknown

cog

𐰸𐰴𐰆𐰺𐰇𐰢 𐰸𐰴𐰆𐰺𐰇𐰢#Khazar

The Turkic language of the Khazar people, of which a single word is attested, 𐰸𐰴𐰆𐰺𐰇𐰢.


Kipchak

The Turkic language of the Kipchak people


Milwaukeean

A native or inhabitant of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.


Bamar

From Burmese ဗမာ (ba.ma). Doublet of Burma.

A member of the majority ethnic group of Burma (Myanmar).


Ruthenian

Any of various languages historically spoken in Ruthenia; West Russian, also known as Old Ukrainian, Old Belarusian and Rusian, any Old East Slavic descendant, which is different from Russian, Great Russian or "East Russian"

заходнеру́скі

West Russian descendant of Old East Slavic - generic

стараўкраі́нскі

West Russian descendant of Old East Slavic - specific to Old Ukrainian

старабелару́скі

West Russian descendant of Old East Slavic - specific to Old Belarusian


Vaticanian

The pope of Rome, when all remonstrance fail’d, / As the last act of his supremacy / Commission’d Legates to assuage the feud, / Or threat the king with Vaticanian wrath.

1843, George Castleden, Retribution, Loyal Lyrics, and Fugitive Pieces […], page 35

There is not the faintest reason for attributing to M. Thiers a Vaticanian infallibility in politics.

1875 December 31, “French Politics”, in Pall Mall Budget, volume 15, page 523

The Patres immediately appointed Q. Cincinnatus dictator. A sergeant brought him the announcement to the Vaticanian field, where he cultivated a juga of land with four yoke of oxen.

1881, The Illustrated History of the World, for the English People […], volume 1, page 371

(uncommon, chiefly literary) Relating to the Vatican (any sense); (figuratively) papal.


Hallstatt

The Hallstatt culture of the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age.


Samnite

(historical) A native or inhabitant of ancient Samnium.

(historical, Ancient Rome) A Roman gladiator armed with shield, sleeve on right arm, helmet, shoulder-piece, and greave.


South Caucasian

en-noun

South Caucasian (plural South Caucasians)


Stygian

Stygians – natives of Styx

1940, Edmond Hamilton, Calling Captain Future, page 55

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Styx (a moon of Pluto).


Astrakhanian

Of or pertaining to Astrakhan or its natives, residents or culture.


Pukapukan

A language spoken in the northern Cook Islands. It is a member of the Polynesian family of languages.


reptoid

(ufology) A member of an extraterrestrial sapient species said to resemble a reptile, often ascribed shapeshifting capabilities and implicated in many conspiracy theories.


Zonian

A person from, or working in, the former American territory in Panama called the Panama Canal Zone.


Bethlehemite

(historical) Member of an extinct English order of friars.


Malukan

en-adj

Malukan (comparative more Malukan, superlative most Malukan)

more Malukan (comparative)
most Malukan (superlative)


Malukan

A native or inhabitant of the Maluku Islands.


Moluccan

Moluccan (comparative more Moluccan, superlative most Moluccan)

more Moluccan (comparative)
most Moluccan (superlative)


Münchner

[…] especially in regard to hotels and eating-houses, to which Münchners without families resorted for their meals.

1916, Daily Review of the Foreign Press, page 14

“Zu streng” was the comment of the Münchners, and doubly strenuous it was for an American boy, quite ignorant of German, and held, from the moment of his entrance, responsible for obeying all the elaborate regulations of the school.

1922, Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War Against Germany, volume III, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, page 422

[…] a thousand heathenish Münchners who drank up five thousand bottles of wine.

1928, The Century Monthly Magazine, volume 116, page 603

There followed a great commotion and uprising, the Münchners saying that their beer was absolutely necessary to them and that nothing dare be done to make it more difficult of attainment.

1929, World Traveler, volume 21, page 60

They rolled dice between “Münchners” keeping score on the back of a cardboard “Brauerei Hameln” coaster.

1931, Henry Albert Phillips, Meet the Germans: In Which an American Sees the New Germany Through Its People, Robert M[edill] McBride & Company, page 174

Whenever in Munich you admire the way the Münchners decorate their houses and lampstands with flower boxes, think kindly and proudly of Count Rumford.

1933, House & Garden, volume 64, page 25

THE PRACTICAL MÜNCHNERS AT THE OCTOBER FESTIVAL

1936, German Art from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century, Schurz, Carl, National Association, page 228

I have worked in Munich as a reporter for an international news service, covering a horrible plane crash that also incinerated a streetcar full of Münchners.

2005, William Bridges, Five-Mountain Morning, Virtualbookworm.com Publishing Inc., page 12

The Starkbierzeit is celebrated by most Munich beer halls. Münchners refer to it as the city's "fifth season."

2005, Larry Hawthorne, The Beer Drinker's Guide to Munich, 5th edition, Freizeit Publishers, page 209

Augustiner Beer Garden, a true under-the-leaves beer garden packed with Münchners, is a delight. In fact, most Münchners consider Augustiner the best beer garden in town—which may be why it has 5,000 seats.

2016, Rick Steves, Best of Germany, Avalon Travel, Perseus Books


Lexingtonian

A native or inhabitant of Lexington, Kentucky, United States.


Rugian

The hypothetical East Germanic language once spoken by the Rugians.


Hungarish

One of them reader of Hungarish.

1799, Francis Peck, Desiderata Curiosa Or a Collection of Divers Scarce and Curious

(archaic) The Hungarian language; Magyar.


Chagossian

British Indian Ocean Territory
British Indian Ocean Territory

One of the previous inhabitants of the Chagos Archipelago, British Indian Ocean Territory, who were deported by the British government in the late 1960s and early 1970s.


intraterrestrial

(ufology) any of a race of sapient beings who live inside the Earth and operate UFOs


Damascene

From Ancient Greek Δαμασκηνός (Damaskēnós). By surface analysis, Damascus + -ene. The sense “pertaining to a sudden and complete change in one's beliefs” refers to the conversion of St Paul to Christianity on the road to Damascus.


swamp gas

* (hydrogen sulfide): So called because it is often emitted from wetlands such as swamps as a result of anaerobic bacteria, and is responsible for their foul “rotten egg” odor.
* (ufology): An explanation given by then-skeptic J. Allen Hynek for an alleged UFO sighting in Michigan near Lake Huron in 1966.

(ufology, sarcastic) A skeptical explanation that is provided in order to debunk a UFO sighting that a believer regards as ludicrous, illogical or disingenuous.


Vegan

[…] James G. Scrugham (later to become governor of the state, and a congressman) and Vegans Roy W. Martin , James Cashman and E. W. Griffith.

1969, Nevada Highways and Parks, volumes 29-30, page 41

Short for Las Vegan (“someone from Las Vegas”).


Betelgeusian

(science fiction) The language spoken by Betelgeusians.


Noric

en-adj

Noric (comparative more Noric, superlative most Noric)

more Noric (comparative)
most Noric (superlative)

Of or relating to the ancient region of Noricum.


Salemite

Relating to, or characteristic of the Salem witch trials


Vepsian

A member of the Finnic people who speak the Veps language.


Eldar

→ Russian: Эльда́р (Elʹdár)

Coined by J. R. R. Tolkien as Quenya Eldar, plural of Elda.

(science fiction) An elflike race of aliens from Warhammer 40,000, now known as Aeldari.

Эльда́р

magical humanoids from Tolkien's writings


Rusian

From Rus + -ian, by analogy with Russian.


Abidjanian

Of or pertaining to Abidjan, the largest city of Côte d'Ivoire.


New Englander

/ˌnuː ˈɪŋɡləndə(ɹ)/


Gallaeci

An ancient Celtic people who inhabited Gallaecia.


Jerichoite

(rare) A Jerichoan: a native or inhabitant of Jericho.


Jerichoan

Jerichoan walls; a Jerichoan fall


Somalilander

From Somaliland + -er, analogous with Jubalander and Puntlander.


New English

en-noun

New English (plural New Englishes or New English)

New Englishes (plural)
New English (plural)

This Southwest wind is called by the New-English, the Sea turne, which comes from the Sunne in the morning, about nine or ten of the clock Southeast, and about South, and then strongest Southwest in the after-noone, and towards night, when it dies away.

1643, Roger Williams, A Key into the Language of America, London: Gregory Dexter, →OCLC, page 11

Another complayned of other Indians that did revile them, and call them Rogues and such like speeches for cutting off their Locks, and for cutting their Haire in a modest manner as the New-English generally doe

1647, anonymous author, The Day-Breaking, if not the Sun-Rising of the Gospell with the Indians in New-England, London: Richard Cotes; republished as “The Day-Breaking […] ”, in MHS Collections, series 3, volume 4, Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1834, →OCLC, page 22

Any honest New Englander—a New Englander of the villages, I mean—will admit that the New English are singularly ungifted for social life and manners.

1920, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, “Miss Alcott's New England”, in Modes and Morals, New York: C. Scribner's sons, →OCLC, page 195

New England’s fisheries and the carrying trade to the West Indies demanded ships. By the end of the seventeenth century, the New English were building almost all of the vessels they employed, as well as growing numbers for English merchants.

2001, Alan Taylor, American Colonies, New York: Viking Penguin, page 176

(historical, uncommon, in the plural) New Englanders.


Pskovian

en-adj

Pskovian (comparative more Pskovian, superlative most Pskovian)

more Pskovian (comparative)
most Pskovian (superlative)

Of, pertaining to or characteristic of Pskov, its people, culture or language.


Umbri

Borrowed from Latin umbrī. Also called Ombrii in some Roman sources. Many Roman writers thought the Umbri to be Celtic; Cornelius Bocchus wrote that they descended from an ancient Gaulish tribe. Plutarch wrote that the name might be a different way of writing the name of the Celtic tribe Ambrones, which loosely means "King of the Boii". He also suggested that the Insubres, another Gaulish tribe, might be connected; their Celtic name Isombres could possibly mean "Lower Umbrians", or inhabitants of the country below Umbria.

(historical) An Italic tribe of ancient Italy.


Helvetii

From Latin Helvetii, from a Celtic name. First element from Proto-Celtic *ɸelus (“many”), from Proto-Indo-European *pélh₁us (“many”); second element said to be from Celtic root *ɸētu (“grassland, terrain”), which shares an origin with Old Irish íath (“grassland, territory”).

(historical) A Gallic tribe that occupied the plain of Switzerland.


BVIslander

British Virgin Islands
British Virgin Islands

A native or inhabitant of the British Virgin Islands.


Amalthean

(science fiction) A native or inhabitant of Amalthea.


Caraquenian

A native or inhabitant of Caracas in Venezuela.


Nabataean

Latin Nabataeus, Ancient Greek Ναβαταῖος (Nabataîos), ultimately from the same root as Arabic أَنْبَاط (ʔanbāṭ)

uder

Arabic أَنْبَاط (ʔanbāṭ)


Campanian

(geology) The fifth of six geological ages of the Late Cretaceous epoch, spanning the time from 83.6 ± 0.7 to 72.1 ± 0.6 million years ago. It is preceded by the Santonian and followed by the Maastrichtian.


Tai Long

Yu Yuk-chun, 85, moved to Tai Long on Lantau Island some 40 years ago to live with her husband, an indigenous resident of the village.

2014 March 17, Fanny W. Y. Fung, “Residents of remote Lantau village reveal their plight”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-03-20, Hong Kong

A village of South Lantao Rural Committee in Chi Ma Wan, Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.


Leidener

From Leiden + -er. Compare German Leidener.

The choice to retain a tax rather than to forgo a university (whose benefits Leideners continue to enjoy) demonstrated that the burghers of the Netherlands did not object to taxes as such.

1994, John H. Makin, Norman J. Ornstein, Debt and Taxes: How America Got into Its Budget Mess and What We Can Do about It, New York, NY: Times Books, page 52

A native or inhabitant of Leiden, Netherlands.


Iceni

(historical) A Brythonic tribe in Britannia who inhabited an area corresponding roughly to the modern-day county of Norfolk, from the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD.


Selenite

From Selene (“the Moon”) + -ite. From Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē, “goddess of the Moon”).

(science fiction) Synonym of Lunarian (“inhabitant of the Moon”).


New Zealandress

en-noun

New Zealandress (plural New Zealandresses)

…her last despairing, supplicating look, as she was taken a few yards off, and killed, by that virago, Mrs. Haupapa—the fiendish New Zealandress.

1866, John Alexander Wilson, The Story of Te Waharoa … A Chapter in Early New Zealand History, page 54

Being an easily enfranchised New Zealandress, I found myself lodged midway between the two camps…

1912 December 14, Mrs. Leopold Myers, “Pankhurst and Party.”, in New Zealand Herald, page 1

Neptunes in hempen wigs waltzed with the lean New Zealandress, who had stuck flowers from a hat into her fair hair, to impersonate Oceania.

The New Zealandress is as sports-minded as her brother…

1977, Nina and Jim Munro, A Taste of New Zealand in Food and Pictures, page 92

(rare, chiefly obsolete) A female New Zealander.


Arkie

(US, informal) A native or resident of the state of Arkansas in the United States of America.


Europasian

en-adj

Europasian (comparative more Europasian, superlative most Europasian)

more Europasian (comparative)
most Europasian (superlative)


Aachener

Borrowed from German Aachener, equal to Aachen + -er.

Von Schwerin arrived in Aachen late on the night of the twelfth, his Army Volkswagen fighting its way through the panic-stricken Aacheners, fleeing from the city which was already burning from the first American shells.

1972, Charles Whiting, Werewolf: The Story of the Nazi Resistance Movement 1944–1945, London: Leo Cooper Ltd, page 24

A native or inhabitant of Aachen, Germany.


subsaharan

Ben Bella, the Arab, "won approval of subsaharans," the U.S. State Department noted dryly.

2004, Piero Gleijeses, Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976, page 213

[…] found them most closely linked to non-San modern subsaharans.

2005, Ian Tattersall, The Human Fossil Record, Craniodental Morphology of Genus Homo (Africa and Asia), page 34

I do not think this article says much about separation between subsaharans and the rest

1999, ypar, “Re: The egyptians were black”, in sci.anthropology (Usenet)


Tiele

zh-m

鐵勒／铁勒 (Tiělè)

A member of a confederation of Turkic peoples living to the north of China and in Central Asia, emerging after the disintegration of the Xiongnu confederacy.


Rotterdammer

From Rotterdam + -er, probably modelled on Dutch Rotterdammer.


Dortmunder

Borrowed from German, or from Dortmund + -er.


Belgrader

a native or resident of Belgrade, Serbia


Brandenburger

/ˈbɹændənbɜːɡə/

/ˈbɹændɚnbɝɡɚ/

Brandenburg an der Havel
Brandenburg an der Havel

A person from Brandenburg an der Havel (city of Germany).


Xianbei

zh-l

鮮卑／鲜卑 (Xiānbēi)

(historical) An ancient Mongolic nomadic people who resided in what is now eastern Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and northeast China.


Darmstädter

This particular deficiency is betrayed, though, in quite another direction, by the course adopted by the Darmstädters in dealing with the question of naming their streets.

1887, W[illiam] Beatty-Kingston, Music and Manners: Personal Reminiscences and Sketches of Character, volume II (Manners), London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, page 341

Many Darmstädters also comforted themselves with the thought that their town was such an attractive place that the Allied armies, now only 80 miles from the stretch of the Rhine nearest to them, would no doubt want to use it as an area headquarters when the fighting stopped.

1993, James Fyfe, The Great Ingratitude: Bomber Command in World War II, Wigtown: G.C. Book Publishers Ltd, page 186

A police car stationed in front of the synagogue was less a reminder that this welcome might not be shared by all Darmstädters (which undoubtedly was the case, because Darmstadt like the entire Weinstrasse had been notoriously “brown”), than a reflection of typical anxieties of the German state and the Darmstadt community after the Holocaust.

2017, Michael Geyer, “Die Bratus: Sketch for a Minor German History”, in Michael Meng, Adam R. Seipp, editors, Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective, New York, N..Y: Berghahn Books, section IV (Family Histories), page 265


Titanean

(science fiction) An inhabitant of Titan (the Saturnian moon)


Macaoese

A person from Macao or of Macao descent.


Hong Konger

Hong Kongers are invited to apply for a new British National Overseas (BNO) visa that leads to citizenship.

2021 January 30, “Hong Kongers eye British citizenship but fear retaliation from China”, in The Economist, →ISSN

A person from Hong Kong or of Hong Kong descent.


outworlder

It is a thing no outworlder may know except those very few who have been involved.

1967, “Amok Time”, in Star Trek: The Original Series, season 2, spoken by Spock (Leonard Nimoy)

He speaks with the outworlder tongue!
What else were you expecting from a male, sister Dykstra?

1995, Among Friends And Enemies, Part 3: The Magical Mystery Tour (Gen13), volume 2, number 3 (comic), page 19

Let each government make sure that rich and poor alike, dirtborn and outworlder, Terran and Variant, all have equal access to the outernet and its resources.

1998, Celia S. Friedman, This Alien Shore

(science fiction, fantasy) One who comes from another planet, or from a society so culturally foreign as to be a different world.


Arkansasan

/ˈɑː(ɹ)kənˌsɔːn/


Arkansawyer

From Arkansaw (older spelling of Arkansas) + -yer.

suffix

older spelling of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Arkansas</i>

One opponent accused him of being "to the left of Hubert Humphrey," which was a hard thing to say about an Arkansawyer in 1970.

2003 March 9, Roy Reed, "Another Guy From Arkansas" (Book review of The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town: A Memoir by Dale Bumpers), New York Times (retrieved 25 Feb 2014)

The words Arkansan, Arkansawyer and Arkie are in common use. Each term has its partisans and its detractors.

2007 Dec. 26, "Sizing up Arkansan vs. Arkansawyer," The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (reposted at Arkansas Online) (retrieved 25 Feb 2014)

(US) A native or resident of the state of Arkansas in the United States of America.


Moose Javian

During the last week in June each year a tradition known locally as "sidewalk days" brings this diverse population of Moose Javians together for three days of outdoor shopping on Main Street.

1987, Don McLean, Fifty Historical Vignettes: Views of the Common People, Gabriel Dumont Institute, page 198

Key Wong, a born-and-raised Moose Javian, recalls his father arrived in Moose Jaw in 1905 as a thirteen-year-old.

2001, John Larsen, Maurice Richard Libby, Moose Jaw: People, Places, History, Coteau Books, page 31

I also lingered in the poetry section of the Moose Jaw Public Library where I discovered and delighted in Dante, Yeats, Eliot, Frost, Auden and Wallace Stevens. […] What was a muddle-headed sixteen-year-old Moose Javian to make of "The Idea of Order at Key West" or "The Wasteland"?

2008, Gary Hyland, Love of Mirrors, Coteau Books, page 225

A native or resident of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.


East Jerusalemite

en-noun

East Jerusalemite (plural East Jerusalemites)

The Palestinians insisted on both outsiders and an East Jerusalemite on the delegation.

2005, Dennis Ross, The Missing Peace, page 62


USian

en-adj

USian (comparative more USian, superlative most USian)

more USian (comparative)
most USian (superlative)

Driving through the USian landscape is like walking through cobwebs in an attic. No one is dying of hunger, but no one seems to be doing anything either. The only illegal migration taking place is from the USA into Canada.

2003, Joseph Raphael, The Trial of Alois Barda: The Saga of Uncommon Man, iUniverse, page 6

Before developing this idea of "counter-worlding" any further, I would also note that as a postcolonial-oriented comparativist of Canadian and Québécois literatures, I am inevitably drawn to considering such an approach vis-à-vis the United States – especially within the immediate context of greater pressures on Canada and Quebec to integrate within the USian imperial nexus in terms of national, continental, and international policies and values, […]

2007, David Leahy, “Counter-Worlding Alaméricanité”, in Winfried Siemerling, Sarah Phillips Casteel, editors, Canada & Its Americas: Transnational Navigations, McGill-Queen's University Press, published 2010, page 63

I am a member of the Liberal Democrats, a British political party that are liberal in the British, rather than the American, sense – while for the most part the beliefs of the party as a whole (though not of every member) tend to overlap with the USian definition, […]

2011, Andrew Hickey, Sci-Ence! Justice Leak!, Lulu, page 55

(informal) Of or pertaining to the United States.


USian

In Canada, it seems we are much more experienced with strategic voting than USians.

2005, Mike Carr, quoted in Mark D. Whitaker, Toward a Bioregional State: A Series of Letters about Political Theory and Formal Institutional Design in the Era of Sustainability, iUniverse (2005), page 21

The form chilli is probably closest to the Náhuatl original, and it is the preferred form among historically minded USians and in Australia.

2008, Justin Thyme, HOT! - Make Your Own Sauce!, Lulu.com, page 12

Or that Americans, Canadians, and Québécois are so alike as late-modernist or postmodernist peoples - our consumerist lifestyles so analogous – that cultural production from Canada or Quebec can barely be of interest to USians, that it is not exotic or troubling enough to warrant more attention.

2007, David Leahy, “Counter-Worlding Alaméricanité”, in Winfried Siemerling, Sarah Phillips Casteel, editors, Canada & Its Americas: Transnational Navigations, McGill-Queen's University Press, published 2010, pages 66–67

(informal) A citizen or resident of the United States.


Astur

Of Celtic, possibly Celtiberian origin. The name could ultimately be related to the Phoenician goddess Astarte.

A member of a tribe in northern Spain until the first century BC.


dirtsider

He really hadn't been in space before. You can always tell a dirtsider by the twinkle in their eyes at the idea of seeing their planet from above.

1998, Jerry Oltion, Where Sea Meets Sky, Pocket Books, page 23

So you tell me, Senyor Parrige, how many habitats would be willing to take on their maximum possible population load in the form of half-starved, uneducated, indigent, disease-ridden dirtsiders who know nothing of habitat life and have no skills that are of much use in space?

2001, Roger MacBride Allen, The Depths of Time, Random House, page 378

As a dirtsider, the idea of dying in the cold of space terrified him, though he'd never admit it to his space-loving mate.

2010, Shayla Kersten, Angel Moon, Ellora's Cave, page 52

(science fiction, often derogatory) Someone who lives on the surface of a planet or moon, as opposed to in space.


Americaness

From American + -ness or America + -ness.

There was support for the United States' involvement in Vietnam, though in Lawrence such support expressed a particular brand of patriotism, an Americaness drawn from the past.

2002, Rusty L. Monhollon, "This Is America?:" The Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas, Palgrave, page 125

Although cultural pride in baseball seems to stem from its Americaness, cultural pride in football seems linked to the sport's manly qualities […]

2005, Sarah K. Fields, Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America, University of Illinois Press, published 2008, page 47

The necessity of race to Americaness continued through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and remains central to our identity today: […]

2008, Patrick B. Mullen, The Man Who Adores the Negro: Race and American Folklore, University of Illinois Press, page 8


Marianan

Marianan (comparative more Marianan, superlative most Marianan)

more Marianan (comparative)
most Marianan (superlative)

Northern Mariana Islands
Northern Mariana Islands

Of or relating to the Northern Mariana Islands.


Marianan

A native or inhabitant of the Northern Mariana Islands.


Petersburgian

a native or inhabitant of Saint Petersburg


Triestine

A native or resident of the Italian city of Trieste.

Triestin

a native or resident of the Italian city of Trieste


Belter

You noticed a habit of mine once. I never make gestures. All Belters have that trait. It's because on a small mining ship you could hit something waving your arms around.

1966 February, Larry Niven, “The Warriors”, in If, volume 16, number 2 (#99 overall), page 152

Earth and Mars have been stepping on the necks of the Belters out here for over 100 years and I didn't want to be the boot.

2015 December 22, Remembering the Cant (The Expanse), season 1, episode 3, spoken by Jim Holden (Steven Strait)

(science fiction) An inhabitant of an asteroid belt, especially that between Mars and Jupiter.


Tellurian

From Latin tellūs (“earth, ground; the globe, planet Earth; country, land”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“ground, bottom”) + -ian (suffix meaning ‘from, related to, or like’ (when forming an adjective), or ‘one from, belonging to, relating to, or like’ (when forming a noun)).

suffix

If any distant world (which may be the case) are so far ahead of us Tellurians in optical resources as to see distinctly through their telescopes all that we do on earth, what is the grandest sight to which we ever treat them?

1847, Thomas de Quincey, “Joan of Arc”, in Miscellaneous Essays

There is a mystery in Tellus which has not been solved. I cannot reconcile the disappearance of all its water and its race of men as well, with the legend preserved in our family that, not so very long ago, Tellurians visited us, staying beneath this very roof as guests. Why did the Earth-race die out so quickly?

1930 February, Edwards Gawain [pseudonym; George Edward Pendray], “A Rescue From Jupiter”, in Science Wonder Stories, volume 1, number 9, page 787

But it's well that that bunch of tellurians are dead! Our diamond was the cause of that much good for the earth!" Nega slowed her orbital speed, oscillated a bit, and twinkled: "Are all tellurians like those we've met in the last year?"

1935 May, Joseph William Skidmore, “A Saga of Posi and Nega”, in T[homas] O’Conor Sloane, editor, Amazing Stories, volume 10, New York, N.Y.: Teck Publishing Corporation, →OCLC, page 107

Mr. Bridges is more interested in correct usage of planetary names, rather than in mere derivations (a more useful and less frivolous involvement than mine, you see) and, for instance, advocates what he maintains to be correctly derived words such as Venustian and Hesperian for hypothetical inhabitants of Venus in place of the incorrect Venusian or Cytherean; and Tellus and Tellurian in place of Terra and Terran. He lists astronomers and classical scholars who support his views.

1965 December, Isaac Asimov, “Water, Water, Everywhere—”, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 29, number 6 (number 175 overall), page 87


Earthie

"Earthgirl?" the guard repeated. "She didn't look like an Earthie."

1947 October, Frederik Pohl, “Donovan Had a Dream”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 30, number 1, page 27

The blue men of Mica II discriminated against Earthies, considered them inferior since the Micans had conquered the Earthies a hundred years ago.

1963 May, John Jakes, “Underfollow”, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 24, number 5 (#144 overall), page 66

(science fiction, informal, often derogatory) An inhabitant of the Earth.


Terrestrial

From Latin terrestris, from terra (“land, earth, ground”).

It will be manifest that natural scenery must present many beautiful varieties of effect altogether unfamiliar to us terrestrials, who know of no colours in scenery except those inherent in the objects themselves which form the landscape.

1873, Richard Anthony Proctor, The Expanse of Heaven, page 235

The other was not a Terrestrial, but a visiting Martian.

1925, Hugo Gernsback, Ralph 124C 41+, page 41

There'd been Earthling girls; and not a few Khazaki women had been intrigued by the big Terrestrial.

1950 Fall, Poul Anderson, “Star Ship”, in Planet Stories, volume 4, number 8, page 74


Earthgirl

You have given me an idea, Earthgirl, and it is one that I am afraid you will live to regret.

1939 February, Harold Kerton Wells, “Moon of Mad Atavism”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 13, number 1, page 35

(usually science fiction) A young female inhabitant of Earth.


Terrestrian

This rocket squad was composed almost solely of Terrestrians, for they were used to the greater gravity of Earth, and could stand greater acceleration than could Venerians.

1930 Fall, John Wood Campbell, “Black Star Passes”, in Amazing Stories Quarterly, volume 3, number 4, page 516

How would it look for the First Administrator to go limping around the galaxies explaining that he was behind schedule because his ship got wrecked on Sol III and the Terrestrians were incapable of matching his drives?

1950 November, Raymond Fisher Jones, “Tools of the Trade”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 46, number 3, page 55


Earthperson

en-noun

Earthperson (plural Earthpersons or Earthpeople)

Earthpersons (plural)
Earthpeople (plural)

The Venusians, unlike other planetary races, were almost like Earthpeople. There was only one notable difference—they had feathers on their heads instead of hair.

1953 May, Eando Binder, “Interplanetary Tenements”, in Captain Marvel Adventures, volume 24, number 144, page (inside front cover)

And beyond that, the most important equipment of all: the manufacturing units that processed the Earthpeople's food.

1956, Philip Kindred Dick, The World Jones Made, page 198

My last act as an earthperson, she says, was t' snatch off my landlawd's glasses and punch and punch 'im in the nose.

1974, Donald Newlove, The Drunks, page 140

"That was an ingenious idea, Earthperson," it said slowly. "There is now a beneficent atmosphere surrounding my pressure envelope, which will enable me to repair the torn fabric and survive until Illensan assistance arrives. Thank you."

1983, James White, Sector General, page 24

It was Tarna's first demonstration of Earthpersons—or rather Earth robots—in action, an the villagers were hugely impressed.

1986, Arthur C. Clarke, The Songs of Distant Earth, page 81

(usually science fiction) An inhabitant of the planet Earth.


Zuricher

From Zurich + -er, or from German Züricher.

The officer in command of the Zurichers instantly marched to sustain the post.

1834, John Warner Barber, An Account of the Most Important and Interesting Religious Events

In the eastern parts of the Confederation, where the Zurichers had traditionally exercised influence, […] there was little left after the Kappel War to show for their earlier efforts.

2002, Bruce Gordon, The Swiss Reformation, page 135

On March 6, the two Zurichers attended the Wednesday Psychological Society meeting in Vienna.

2008, George Makari, Revolution in Mind, page 205


Rhinelander

A city, the county seat of Oneida County, Wisconsin, United States.


Palmyrene

From Ancient Greek Παλμυρηνός (Palmurēnós).

The importance of the Palmyrenes was as merchants, and it is as merchants that they become known to us in our earliest Roman reference.

1995, Richard Stoneman, Palmyra and Its Empire: Zenobia's Revolt Against Rome, University of Michigan Press, page 31

For in the course of the campaign the Roman provincial capital of Bostra fell to the Palmyrenes – whether by accident or design - along with a Roman force.

2000, Warwick Ball, Rome in the East: The Transformation of an Empire, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 80

There is no surviving contemporary account of the war between the Palmyrenes and the Emperor Aurelian.

2008, Pat Southern, Empress Zenobia: Palmyra's Rebel Queen, Continuum Books, page 131

(historical) A native or inhabitant of ancient Palmyra or Palmyrena.


Fejeean

en-adj

Fejeean (comparative more Fejeean, superlative most Fejeean)

more Fejeean (comparative)
most Fejeean (superlative)


Durbanite

An inhabitant of Durban in South Africa.


Richmonder

Richmond upon Thames
Richmond upon Thames

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


Emiri

United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates

An Emirati; a person from United Arab Emirates or of Emirian descent.


Emiri

Emiri (comparative more Emiri, superlative most Emiri)

more Emiri (comparative)
most Emiri (superlative)

Of or relating to the United Arab Emirates or its people.


Idahonian

A native or inhabitant of the American state of Idaho.


North Atlanticist

en-noun

North Atlanticist (plural North Atlanticists)

What is it that has so upset the North Atlanticists who only recently applauded the decision by R. Lubbers' right-centrist cabinet to accept the new U.S. nuclear missiles on the Netherlands soil in 1988?

1986, Worldwide Report: Arms control, page 19

A remarkable fact that this updated position came into being without the presence of CVP Minister of Foreign Affairs, L. Tindemans, a faithful North Atlanticist and a supporter of the placing of the missiles, at the party meeting in question.

That Mrs Thatcher, friend of Ronald Reagan and North Atlanticist, has been replaced by John Major and a more committedly European cabinet, does not resolve the issue.

1991, Roberto Giorgio Rabel, Europe Without Walls, page 142

Nor can the common vision of the North Atlanticists, who made up the second tier of officials within the Foreign Ministries of the three allies, be underestimated as well.

2003, Michael A. Hennessy, B. J. C. McKercher, War in the Twentieth Century: Reflections at Century's End, page 90

One whose political views support the North Atlantic countries as a power base, especially a supporter of NATO.