单词 | nantucketer |
释义 | Nantucketern. A native or inhabitant of Nantucket. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > other towns or cities Bostonian1682 Philadelphian1744 Bostonese1785 Nantucketer1788 Chicagoan1851 Angeleno1857 New Orleanian1862 bean-eater1867 Chicagoese1868 Los Angeleno1871 San Franciscan1875 Los Angelena1883 Angelena1905 Orleanian1935 1788 Rep. on Commerce 15 Oct. in T. Jefferson Papers (1956) XIII. 67 It will suffice to grant enough advantages..to forestall among the Nantucketers the desire to emigrate. 1841 Southern Literary Messenger 7 854/2 If their North Carolina correspondent had addressed the Nantucketers by the limited cognomination of ‘All the Browns’, [etc.]. 1882 E. K. Godfrey Island of Nantucket 24 The Nantucketers seem to have a mania for bell-ringing. 1914 R. A. Douglas-Lithgow Nantucket xv. 296 A Nantucketer does not pull, he always ‘hauls’, he does not tie or fasten anything, he ‘splices’ it. 1948 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 26 June 46/3 Russells had also played a part, along with Howlands and Rotches, who had been Nantucketers, in committing New Bedford to the gigantic gamble on whaling. 1991 William & Mary Q. 48 169 More troubling in this set of subverting gestures is the treatment of the Nantucketers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1788 |
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