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Vandemonian, a. and n.|ˌvændɪˈməʊnɪən|
Also Van Diemonian, Diemenian.
[f. Van Diemen('s Land, the original name of Tasmania, given by its discoverer Tasman in 1642 in honour of Anthony Van Diemen (1593–1645), governor of the Dutch East Indies.]
A. adj. Of, belonging to, or inhabiting Tasmania.
Freq. applied to the convicts domiciled there in the early part of the 19th c.
1840G. Arden Austr. Felix 9 A shrewd old Vandemonian colonist. 1853S. Sidney Three Colonies Austral. (ed. 2) 171 note, Acts levelled against Van Diemonian expirees. 1855W. Howitt Two Y. Victoria xx. I. 367 Some of the Van Diemenian convicts.
B. n. An inhabitant of Tasmania.
1852G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes III. viii. 251 The Van Diemonians, as they unpleasingly call themselves. 1867Cassell's Mag. II. 440/2, ‘I never wanted to leave England,’ I have heard an old Vandemonian observe boastfully.
Hence ˌvandeˈmonianism, rough or unmannerly behaviour; rowdyism.
1863Victorian Hansard 22 Apr. IX. 701 (Morris), Mr. Houston looked upon the conduct of hon. gentlemen opposite as ranging from the extreme of vandemonianism to the extreme of namby-pambyism. |