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Southron, a. and n. orig. Sc. (and north.)|ˈsʌðrən|
Forms: 5 sothroun, -ron, 8 suthron, 9 southron; 6 su-, sotheroun, 6–7 southeroun, 6, 9 sotheron, 8–9 southeron; 6 sudroun, suddroun, -rone, 8 soudron. Also with lower-case initial.
[Alteration of southren southern a.; the ending was probably modified on the analogy of Briton, Saxon.]
A. adj.
1. Belonging to or dwelling in the south, esp. of Britain; southern; esp. English as distinguished from Scottish. Chiefly Sc.
c1470Henry Wallace iv. 494 Or Sothron men suld sege him in that place. Ibid. x. 664 Then ferdly fled full mony Sotheroun syr. 1785Burns To W. S[impso]n x, Where glorious Wallace Aft bure the gree..Frae Suthron billies. 1810J. Porter Sc. Chiefs xxxvii, When the Southron lords delegate a messenger to me. 1892Athenæum 8 Oct. 475/1 Church politics..still possess an interest for Scotland which is perfectly amazing to the Southron observer.
2. Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, the south; situated in or on the south:
a. In or after Scottish use (= English).
c1470Henry Wallace ii. 10 To se thaim sched the byrnand Sothroun blude. 1570Henry's Wallace v. 930 On Sutheroun syde full greit slauchter þai maid. 1571Satir. Poems Reform. xxv. 48 By slicht & suddrone bloud. 1807Byron The Adieu iii, Why did I quit my Highland cave..To seek a Sotheron home! 1858Macaulay Hist. Eng. vii. II. 183 The French monarchy was to him..what the Southron [earlier edd. southern] domination was to Wallace. 1891Barrie Little Minister xxv, A southron mode of speech.
b. In other uses. Also transf.
1828Free Press (Tarboro, N. Carolina) 9 Nov., I am a Republican in principle, and a Southron in feeling. 1831J. J. Audubon Ornith. Biogr. I. 110 When those [mocking birds] which had gone to the Eastern States..have returned, they are instantly known by the ‘southrons’ who attack them on all occasions. 1845Ford Handbk. Spain 773 The wants and wishes of a credulous southron people. 1891Cent. Dict., Southron, pertaining or belonging to the southern United States.
B. n.
1. a. A native of the south of Great Britain; an Englishman.
c1470Henry Wallace ii. 304 Bot othir a Scott wald do a Sothroun teyne, Or he till him. 1771J. Macpherson Introd. Hist. Grt. Brit. 129 The appellation of Southerons and Norlands are not hitherto totally extinguished among the Scots. 1810J. Porter Sc. Chiefs ii, The Southrons are at the gates and we shall be lost. 1879Huxley Hume 40 These same Southrons added a passionate admiration for Lord Chatham.
b. In pl. sense, = Englishmen. Freq. with the.
c1470Henry Wallace i. 188 He saw the Sothroun multipliand mayr. Ibid. iii. 270 Sothroun to sla he thinkis it na syne. a1795Outlaw Murray xxii. in Child Ballads V. 192/1 Frae Soudron I this forest wan. 1820Scott Monast. iv, But wha is to haud back the Southron, then? 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. (ed. 5) II. 130 In Ireland Scot and Southron were strongly bound together by their common Saxon origin.
†c. Sc. The English tongue or language. Obs.
1513Douglas æneid i. Prol. 111 Kepand na sudroun bot our awin langage, And speikis as I lernit quhen I was page. 1563Winȝet Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 138, I am nocht acquyntit with ȝour Southeroun. 1581Hamilton in Cath. Tract. (S.T.S.) 105 James the fyft..hering ane of his subiectis knap suddrone, declarit him ane trateur.
2. a. A native or inhabitant of the south of England, of Europe, etc.
1857Mrs. Gaskell C. Brontë (1860) 253 Those nearer to the spot..were sure, from the..accuracy of the writing, that the writer was no Southron. 1868Milman St. Paul's 48 The Southron [sc. an Italian legate] was to spend his winter in cold London. 1891J. Winsor Columbus 658 The wisdom in their employment of the aborigines was as eminent as with the Southrons [sc. Spaniards] it was lacking.
b. U.S. = southerner 2.
1848in Bartlett Dict. Amer. 410 He will prevent the nomination of Gen. Butler, or any other Southron. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 84 The Southron was a better fighter than the Northerner.
Hence ˈSouthrony, the English. pseudo-arch.
a1795Outlaw Murray xxxiii. in Child Ballads V. 192/2 He says yon forest is his ain, He wan it from the Soudronie. c1802J. Marriott Feast of Spurs xiii. in Scott Minstrelsy, Intull your saddles, scour awa', And ranshakle the Southronie. |