单词 | west ridinger |
释义 | West Ridingern. Now rare. A native or inhabitant of the West Riding of Yorkshire. ΚΠ 1847 Morning Post 16 Dec. 5/4 I am a plain West Ridinger. 1857 E. C. Gaskell Life Charlotte Brontë 28 The exceptional traits in the characteristics of these stalwart West-Ridingers, such as they were in the first quarter of this century. 1876 W. Cudworth Round about Bradford 361 Like other West Ridingers, they were self-willed, and many of them made no disguise of their rudeness. 1907 C. M. Gaskell Prose Idyls West Riding xii. 299 With the abruptness of a West Ridinger, he plumped down at once on a vacant chair. 1996 Guardian 14 Mar. 20/4 The West Ridingers were having none of it. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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