outportern.
/ˈaʊtpɔːtə/, U.S. /ˈaʊtˌpɔrdər/, Canadian English /ˈʌutˌpɔrdər/ Canadian (Newfoundland and Labrador).
A native or inhabitant of an outport (outport n.1 1b).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > inhabitant of specific types of town or city
metropolitan1795
outporter1904
small-towner1910
megalopolitan1930
old-towner1973
1904 Westm. Gaz. 6 May 10/1 The Newfoundland outporters are hardy, courageous, boldly adventurous, simple-lived.
1958 Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 17 Dec. 27/7 Many outporters still follow the custom of starting [Christmas Day] off with a breakfast of fish.
1973 B. Broadfoot Ten Lost Years xix. 214 Mallory and Derek, pretty fancy names for a couple of outporters, eh?
1990 L. Millman Last Place in C. Martin Local Colour (1994) 31 Food tycoon Clarence Birdseye..learned the secrets of quick freezing..from a local outporter named Garland Lethbridge.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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out-porter n.
Brit. /ˈaʊtˌpɔːtə/
, /ˈaʊtˌpɔːtə/U.S. /ˈaʊtˌpɔrdər/
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1902 Chambers's Jrnl. Nov. 717/2 ‘Boots’ will select for him that out-porter who will most briskly wheel his colossal pile of cases.
1989 H. Horwood Joey ix. 146 Two of the three outporters in the interim Cabinet hastened to buy or build houses in St. John's, and to move there permanently.
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