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Novocastrian, n. and a.|nəʊvəʊˈkæstrɪən|
Also with lower-case initial.
[f. L. novo- reduced form of novum new + castr(um castle + -ian.]
A. n. A native or inhabitant of Newcastle upon Tyne.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Newcastle or its inhabitants.
1888L. A. Smith Music of Waters 123 They must have been scarcely as sensitive and refined as one would like to imagine the ancestors of the..Novocastrians. 1915E. Corri 30 Yrs. Boxing Ref. 228, I had no friends in Newcastle when I arrived, but made many during that short visit, coming away with a tremendously high opinion of Novocastrian hospitality. 1949H. L. Honeyman Northumberland i. vi. 104 Ralph Gardiner, a renegade Novocastrian and pupil of its Grammar School, settled at Chirton near Shields in 1650. 1959E. L. Mascall Pi in High 26 What coals to Novocastrians are, To Generals what caviare, To Hecubas what divers he's, Were mushrooms to Ozonides. 1969C. Geeson Northumberland & Durham Word Bk. 4 Wilfred Whitten, the distinguished original editor of John o' London's Weekly, spoke of his native Novocastrian tongue as ‘that abominable dialect’. 1973I. Carr in B. S. Johnson All Bull 107 He quizzed me about distinguished novocastrian citizens. 1974Times 29 Apr. 5/4 Mr. T. Dan Smith will be remembered as the man who changed the face of Newcastle upon Tyne... The pace and scale of the change have..frightened Novocastrians. |