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Ohioan, n. and a.|əʊˈhaɪəʊən|
[f. Ohio + -an.]
A. n. A native or inhabitant of Ohio in the United States.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Ohio.
1818E. P. Fordham Pers. Narr. Trav. (1906) viii. 165, I do not choose the risk of being insulted by any vulgar Ohioans. c1848W. Whitman in Amer. Speech (1961) XXXVI. 297 Ohioans [are called] Buckeyes. 1906A. B. Hulbert in B. A. Botkin Treas. S. Folklore (1949) iii. i. 421 When exactly one half had passed on a hog gallop the Ohioan leaped down. 1927H. Crane Let. 7 May (1965) 296 Under the benign influence of Ohioan pollens during the months of June, July, Sept. & October. 1929G. L. Eskew in B. A. Botkin Treas. S. Folklore (1949) i. i. 13 Daniel Decatur Emmett, an Ohioan by birth, a traveling minstrel and showman by persuasion, made a song about ‘Dixie, the Land of Cotton’. 1948[see Nebraskan n.]. 1973Time 25 June 11/1 A fellow Ohioan and Wooster alumnus. 1978Amer. Speech LIII. 42 A wave of Ohioans in the middle nineteenth century inundated northern Indiana and a large area of Illinois. |