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off-island, adv. (phr.), n., and a.
[f. off prep., off- 4 b + island n.]
A. adv. (phr.) Away from an island; spec. U.S., away from the island of Nantucket.
1917Dialect Notes IV. 335 Off island, elsewhere than on the island (Nantucket). ‘What would I want to go off island for?’ 1971N.Y. Times 27 June 3 One islander was heard to remark recently that he never carried more than 30 cents in his pocket unless he planned to go off-island.
B. n. An island off the shore of a larger or central island.
1969Sunday Times 23 Feb. 63 The off-islands may seem to be just across the nautical street but the journey can still be an experience on a rough day. 1973W. J. Burley Death in Salubrious Place i. 14 The pleasure boats were on their various ways to the off-islands. 1973Publishers Weekly 19 Nov. 61/1 Letty Ward lives with her parents on Innish, an Irish off-island. 1976London Calling Apr. 2/1 The Isles of Scilly... The four inhabited ‘off-islands’, as they are always called, are Tresco,..St. Martin's, St Agnes and Bryher.
C. adj. Visiting or temporarily residing on an island.
1965New Yorker 13 Feb. 42 This upset afforded small comfort to off-island Republicans here..because while the Guamanians are American citizens, they cannot vote in our Presidential elections.
So off-islander, (a) a visitor or temporary resident on an island; spec. U.S., in Nantucket; (b) an inhabitant of an off-shore island.
1882J. G. Austin (title) Nantucket scraps: being the experiences of an off-islander, in season and out of season, among a passing people. 1935[see Nantucketer]. 1939S. Chamberlain Nantucket 4 Artists and summer visitors have discovered its allure, and many fortunate ‘off islanders’ now live in old Nantucket houses. 1961D. M. Douglass Saba's Treasure (1963) vi. 98 Off-islanders like other harbors better. 1967Daily Tel. 17 May 21/1 Mr. John Knott, Conservative MP for St. Ives, Cornwall, is to meet representatives of the Duchy of Cornwall, the Scillies Council, the Steamship Co. and ‘off-islanders’ on Saturday. 1968Time 26 July 67 Many ‘off-islanders’, the regular summer residents, are concerned lest their historic hideaway lose its charm. |