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north countryman

noun

Etymology

From north country + man.

  1. inherited from *mon-✻ — “human being, man”
  2. inherited from *mann-✻ — “man”
  3. inherited from *mann✻
  4. inherited from mann — “human being, person, man”
  5. inherited from man
  6. compounded as north countryman — “north country + man”

Definitions

  1. Someone from the north of England.

    • You must look at Bewick to see just what it was like, for he has drawn it a hundred times with the care and the love of a true north countryman […].
    • James Middleton, a wandering north-countryman, […] declared himself to be a Stuart, sprung from a line of Scottish kings, and endowed with a special power to heal the falling sickness.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA