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Brunswicker Ir. Hist.|ˈbrʌnzwɪkə(r)| [f. Brunswick (Club s.v. Brunswick1 3 b + -er1.] A member of a Brunswick Club (see Brunswick1 3 b).
1828New Monthly Mag. XXIII. 473 The opposite wing was..occupied by the Brunswickers. 1829D. O'Connell Let. 13 Jan. (1977) IV. 2 Afraid of a few paltry and malignant Brunswickers. 1830Dublin Even. Post 11 Nov. 3/3 They are..determined not to be humbugged by noisy Brunswickers. 1942E. Bowen Bowen's Court viii. 197 The ‘Brunswickers’..were the members of the Cork Brunswick Club—composed of prominent citizens and neighbouring gentlemen. 1954J. A. Reynolds Catholic Emancipation Crisis Ireland viii. 151 The ultra-Protestants reacted more strenuously by forming Brunswick clubs... The Brunswickers displayed a fanaticism quite as violent as that of their opponents. 1980Hickey & Doherty Dict. Irish Hist. 47/1 Brunswick Clubs, Protestant clubs founded in 1828 by the Duke of Brunswick... The express purpose of such clubs was to oppose Emancipation. The members were known as ‘Brunswickers’. |