fifern.1
/ˈfʌɪfə/, U.S. /ˈfaɪfər/ One who plays the fife.
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fifer1540
fife1548
piffer1564
flageolet1676
1540 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. xii. 242 Item, for Iohn Pretre, fyfer, wagis..xx s viij d.
1584 King James VI & I Ess. Prentise Poesie sig. Biiij Syne Phifers, Drummes, and Trumpets cleir do craue The pelmell chok with larum loude alwhair.
1659 G. Torriano Florio's Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese Fifaro, a piper, a fifer, a fluter.
1809 N. Pinkney Trav. South of France 247 This is some fifer who has obtained this leave.
1840 Act 3 & 4 Victoria c. 96 §53 Drummer, trumpeter, fifer.
1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise ii. 489 The fifer [must] stop His dancing notes the pensive drone that chid.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
Fifern.2
/ˈfʌɪfə/, U.S. /ˈfaɪfər/ A native or inhabitant of Fife, a county of Scotland.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > Scots nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Scotland > parts of Scotland
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Irish Scota1387
Irish Scot1521
Irishman1529
Moravian1577
Moravea1600
highlander1610
lowlander1621
trewsman1639
Whiglander1682
northland1698
Norlander1716
plaid1749
bonnet man1763
plaid-man1763
norland1768
Irish Gael1771
Galwegian1774
southern1812
Gallovidian1875
Fifer1887
Clydesider1921
teuchter1940
1887 P. McNeill Blawearie ix. 73 He'll be awfu' cunning, for a' the Fifers are burstin' fu' o' that commodity.
1897 Daily News 23 Nov. 3/6 He knew that the outside and envious critic was in the habit of telling Fifers that they worked the idea of a kingdom of Fife for a good deal more than it was worth.
1901 Daily Chron. 14 Oct. 5/2 The London ‘Fifers’ do not forget in exile the engaging qualities of their native county.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 12 May 7/2 We Scots outside ‘the Kingdom’ know it takes ‘a long spoon to sup wi' a Fifer’.
1927 Glasgow Herald 14 May 9 The average Fifer..has more of Gaelic blood in him than the average Lewisman.
1967 I. Finlay Lowlands i. 20 The man of Lothian is far different from the man of Galloway, the Fifer from the Borderer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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