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Indianian|ɪndɪˈænɪən|
Also Indianan.
[f. Indiana + -ian.]
A native or inhabitant of Indiana.
1784T. Jefferson Writings (1894) III. 401 Should..the Indianians and Kentuckians take themselves off. 1835C. F. Hoffman Winter in West I. 226 The term ‘Hooshier’,..has now become a soubriquet, that bears nothing invidious with it to the ear even of an Indianian. 1863W. Whitman Specimen Days (1882–3) 48 Some unconscious Indianian, or from Ohio or Tennessee. 1877J. Habberton Jericho Road x. 97 Small parties of discharged Illinoisans and Indianians had frequently passed through. 1900Congress. Rec. 5 Feb. 1508/2 The nation..mourns the death of this distinguished soldier, and Indianians feel it as a personal loss. 1944Amer. N. & Q. Mar. 188 Its advertisements..were answered by a number of Indianans. 1947Amer. Speech XXII. 250 Indianan is now used officially in the State. 1948Mencken Amer. Lang. (Suppl.) II. 620 Hoosier, at the start, did not signify an Indianan particularly, but any rough fellow of what was then the wild West. |