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Geordie Sc. and north. dial.|ˈdʒɔːdɪ|
Also Geordy, Jordie.
[dim. of George.]
†1. (yellow) Geordie: a guinea. (Cf. George 4 b.)
1786Burns Twa Dogs 58 He draws a bonie, silken purse..whare thro' the steeks, The yellow letter'd Geordie keeks. 1790Shirrefs Poems Gloss., Geordie, a guinea. 1893J. Skinner Autobiog. Metaphys. xxxvi. 193 A man..who has only to put his hand in his pocket, and out come the yellow Geordies.
2. a. A coal-pitman. b. A collier-boat. c. (See quot. 1881.)
1876C. M. Davies Unorth. Lond. 353 A ‘Geordie’, or pitman. 1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Geordie, the miners' term for [George] Stephenson's safety-lamp. 1884W. C. Russell Jack's Courtship xliv, You thought..of the Channel aswarm with just such vessels as she—Geordies deep with coal. 1889R. Kipling In Black & White 53 Oh for a decent, rational Geordie! 1897in Daily Mail 13 Oct. 7 A North-country ‘Geordie’ that was coolly snugging-down and outweathering the fierce squall.
3. a. A native or inhabitant of Tyneside. Also in slightly transf. senses. Also attrib. or as adj. colloq. b. A Scotsman. Austral. and N.Z. colloq.
1866C. Nordhoff Young Man-of-War's Man iv. 69 The sailors belonging to the ports on the north-eastern coast of England are called Jordies. 1872T. & G. Allan Tyneside Songs (1891) 416 Where's a' his funny sayin's, that set a' the Geordies in a roar? 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right I. ix. 227 Whose yer friend; a Geordie, most like? 1892R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words I. 196 The men who went from the lower Tyneside to work at the pits in South Tynedale were always called ‘Geordies’ by the people there. 1943Amer. Speech XVIII. 89 [In New Zealand] a Scotsman is a Geordie, and an Irishman, as in vulgar American, a Mick. These synonyms are also current in Australia. 1955‘C. H. Rolph’ Women of Streets iv. 56 A large rough Geordie woman in her mid-thirties. 1959‘M. Ainsworth’ Murder is Catching 11 He had a faint Geordie twang. Ibid. 12 ‘Have a heart,’ said the Geordie. 1971Listener 12 Aug. 201/2 There's a people's culture in Geordieland—it was the last place in England to have its own circuit of music halls. |