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down South, advb. phr.
[down adv. 2, 4.]
a. U.S. In or into the States south of the Mason–Dixon line. Also as adj.
1834C. A. Davis Lett. J. Downing 25 Though I tell'd 'em down south my father was an Irishman,..I am as clear a Yankee..as the Major itself. 1862‘E. Kirke’ Among Pines i. 12 Old Abe he'se gwine to come down Souf. Ibid. iii. 60 Away down South in Dixie. 1884‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn xxxiii, There was plenty other farmer-preachers like that,..down South. 1905A. H. Rice Sandy 23, I lived down South, clean off the track of ever' thing. 1963N.Y. Times 1 Dec. 42 This winter for your Down-South vacation fly Eastern.
b. N.Z. In or into the South Island or its southernmost provinces, Otago and Southland.
1867M. A. Barker Let. May in Station Life in N.Z. (1870) xviii. 137 (heading) A Journey ‘Down South’. 1873― Station Amusements in N.Z. vi. 93 All the first-class pastureland ‘down South’, as [Otago] was called, had been taken up long before. 1873Trollope Austral. & N.Z. II. xxvi. 444 ‘A railway for you gentlemen down south!’ says a northern member. ‘Certainly,—but on condition that we have one here, up north.’ 1949P. Newton High Country Days vii. 69 Lofty, in happy mood, and unfailing in his praise of his native province [sc. Southland], delighted young Wallace with tall stories of ‘down south’. |