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Anglo, n. (and a.) colloq. (chiefly N. Amer.).|ˈæŋgləʊ|
[f. Anglo-.]
1. Canad. [Cf. Anglo-Canadian, anglophone n. and a.] An English-speaking (as opp. to a French-speaking) Canadian. Also attrib. or as adj.
1800Upper Canada Gaz. (York, Ontario) 22 Feb. 3/2 The inference to be drawn, is the closest union between the Anglo and trans-atlantic Anglos. 1959Maclean's Mag. 14 Feb. 41/1 The scientific, technical and commercial faculties, areas once left to the ‘Anglos’, are booming. 1968Listener 1 Aug. 131/1 The Conservatives attempted vaguely to..qualify their traditionally Anglo party to pick up some Quebec seats. 1977Maclean's Mag. 4 Apr. 18/2 Whether Quebec separates or not, there is a feeling among Anglos that things will never be the same for them as the province moves to ‘francicize’ business and restrict the right to English-language education for newcomers.
2. a. A person of English (or non-Latin European) origin, esp. one resident in the United States, an Anglo-American; orig. in South-west U.S., distinguished from a Mexican-American.
1941E. Fergusson Our Southwest 70 Los ricos accepted the incoming Anglos as friends, as wives or husbands. 1948New Mexico Q. Rev. Spring 67 Most non-Spanish city dwellers, the Anglos, so-called..are too busy. 1958Carroll & Casagrande in S. Rogers Children & Lang. (1975) iii. xiii. 193 The test was also administered to 28 ‘Anglos’ (as they are called in the Southwest) consisting of 12 adults of a comparable degree of education in a rural New England community and 16 graduate students at Harvard. 1966Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 2 Apr. (1970) 380 Joe Frantz..began to weave together the story of the place..the westward thrust of the Anglos, wild tales of Pancho Villa. 1971J. Wambaugh New Centurions (1972) iv. 47 Serge couldn't..think of another family on his street with only three children except the Kulaskis and they were Anglos, at least to the Chicanos they were Anglos, but now he thought how humorous it was to have considered these Polacks as Anglo. 1979Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 20 Sept. 9c/1 In Tucson, such recollections would show persistently good relations between Anglos and Mexican-Americans. 1984Observer 19 Aug. 13/4 Earlier this year the Anglos were for the first time tipped into the minority by accumulated Blacks, Hispanics and Asians.
b. attrib. or as adj.
1968Economist 8 June 53/2 As they are basically without power, the radical leaders must take their cues from the people with power, the white, or ‘Anglo’, majority. 1973Newslet. Amer. Dial. Soc. Nov. 11 Thirty Black and Anglo kindergarten children..were asked to respond. 1977New Yorker 2 May 92/2 The entire city council of San Antonio was selected, from out of the same north-side Anglo neighbourhoods. 1981Economist 11 Apr. 28/1 He even did well, although he did not win an outright majority, in the Anglo sections of town. |