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单词 pittsburgher
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Pittsburghern.

Brit. /ˈpɪtsbəːɡə/, U.S. /ˈpɪtsˌbərɡər/
Forms: 1800s– Pittsburgher, 1900s– Pittsburger.
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Pittsburgh , -er suffix1.
Etymology: < Pittsburgh, the name of a city in south-western Pennsylvania, United States + -er suffix1.
A native or inhabitant of Pittsburgh.
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1836 Southern Lit. Messenger June 449/1 The Pittsburghers have committed an error in not..devoting it to the purposes of recreation.
1882 Harper's Mag. Jan. 171/2 Such sights and sounds are familiar to every Pittsburgher.
1913 J. G. Brooks Amer. Syndicalism ii. 19 It makes a Pittsburger mad to have his own town picked out and held up as if it were the only sinner.
1985 Times 5 Sept. 13/6 The Pittsburgher did not love his city... ‘The heart of Pittsburgh consists of skyscraper office buildings’.
2001 U.S. News & World Rep. 19 Mar. 14/1 The 64-year-old Pittsburgher spends part of his year in Florida.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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