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Hoosier U.S.|ˈhuːʒɪə(r)|
Also hoosher.
[Origin unknown.]
a. A nickname for a native or inhabitant of the state of Indiana.
1826in Chicago Tribune (1949) 2 June 20/3 The Indiana hoosiers that came out last fall is settled from 2 to 4 milds of us. 1834Knickerbocker III. 441 They smiled at my inquiry, and said it was among the ‘hoosiers’ of Indiana. 1835J. H. Ingraham South-West I. ix. 105 The primitive navies..manned..by ‘real Kentucks’—‘Buck eyes’—‘Hooshers’ and ‘Snorters’. 1860Emerson Cond. Life ii. 58 These Hoosiers and Suckers are really better than the snivelling opposition. 1885Outing (U.S.) Nov. 152/2 Oh, say, papa. Did you notice that young Hoosier and his bride who sat opposite me at breakfast? 1947Harper's Mag. Jan. 67/2 Other Hoosiers ridicule them as hillbillies. 1958Economist 1 Nov. 417/2 Indiana, whose inhabitants go by the obscure name of Hoosiers, is a deeply conservative state.
b. An inexperienced, awkward, or unsophisticated person.
1846J. Gregg Diary & Lett. 22 Aug. (1941) I. 212 Old King is one of the most perfect samples of a Hoosier Texan I have met with. Fat, chubby, ignorant, and loquacious as Sancho Panza..we could believe nothing he said. 1857E. L. Godkin in R. Ogden Life E. L. Godkin I. 157 The mere ‘cracker’ or ‘hoosier’, as the poor [southern] whites are termed. 1874J. W. Long Amer. Wild-Fowl Shooting viii. 144 ‘Greenhorns’ and ‘hoosiers’, as the regular hunters call such fellows. 1926Amer. Mercury Jan. 64/2 The word hoosier is applied to any one who is incompetent. 1955Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxiv. 174 Thus hoosier grift is the crowd at a country fair.
c. attrib. Of or belonging to Indiana. Hoosier cake (see quot. 1859).
1839J. Plumbe Sk. Iowa 46 (Th.), The Hoosier State has reason to rejoice in the amount and value of its waters. 1845Knickerbocker XXV. 374 Three hundred miles of Hoosier mud. 1859Bartlett Dict. Amer., Hoosier cake, a Western name for a sort of coarse ginger⁓bread, which, say the Kentuckians, is the best bait to catch a hoosier with, the biped being fond of it. 1871E. Eggleston Hoosier Schoolmaster (1872) Pref., It has been in my mind since I was a Hoosier boy. 1878J. H. Beadle Western Wilds i. 18 No grammar of the ‘Hoosier’ language has ever been published. 1907Chicago Evening Post 4 May 5 A rose festival will be given by the Indiana Society of Chicago, comprising hoosier business men of the city. 1916Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 23 July 1/2 He [sc. James Whitcomb Riley] made a study of the ‘Hoosier’ dialect. 1956H. Gold Man who was not with It (1965) xiv. 116 She left a print like feathers tipped with toes in the Hoosier loam. 1972Christian Science Monitor 28 Sept. 16/3 Some folkway yarns about logrolling in the early Hoosier days.
Hence ˈHoosierism, a peculiarity of Indiana, esp. in speech.
1843‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase 63 Thus the cabin lady kept on doing up her small stock of English into Hoosierisms and other figures. 1878J. H. Beadle Western Wilds i. 18 The native of Indiana finds..that he must drop some of his ‘Hoosierisms’. |