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单词 little englander
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Little Englandern.

Brit. /ˌlɪtl ˈɪŋɡləndə/, U.S. /ˌlɪd(ə)l ˈɪŋ(ɡ)ləndər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Little England n., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < Little England n. + -er suffix1. With sense 2 compare Little Englandism n.
1. A Barbadian. Cf. Little England n. 1c. rare.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of West Indies > [noun] > specific islands
Jamaican1613
Bermudian1645
Bermudan1659
Barbadian1671
Anguillan1745
Anguillian1745
Guadeloupean1762
Antiguan1778
Grenadian1786
Haitian1805
Trinidadian1806
St Lucian1818
Puerto Rican1823
Dominican1826
Grenadan1826
Barbudian1830
Bajan1832
Bim1833
Little Englander1833
Tobagonian1849
Cuban1850
Virgin Islander1852
Tortolan1863
Martiniquais1890
Martiniquan1891
Vincentian1907
Guadeloupan1908
Barbadian English1911
Trinidadian English1925
Kittitian1945
Bajie1960
Kittian1960
Trini1972
yardie1984
yardie1986
Baje1990
1833 National Standard 1 June 342/2 Mr. Chapman is a thorough Barbadian—a true little Englander in his heart.
1909 Louisiana Planter & Sugar Manufacturer 8 May 301/2 Try to decide whether the big man in Demerara or the small man in Barbados leads the happier life, and the chances are that the judge..will give the cake to the little Englander.
2. Chiefly depreciative. An opponent of an active international policy or role for England (in effect for Britain), originally (now historical) with regard to the British Empire; (now also) spec. an opponent of England's (or Britain's) active involvement in or membership of the European Union (or its predecessors).
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > [noun] > specific principles or policies > supporters of
reformist1641
reformer1648
engager1650
All the Virtues1816
Manchester school1846
fair trader1881
Manchestrist1882
Little Englander1889
Manchesterian1897
tariff-reformer1903
Little Englander Liberal1909
Poplarist1925
marketeer1962
Eurosceptic1978
1889 Westm. Rev. Jan. 450 To be..of a national party which is not also the party of the nations, is to be simply ‘a little Englander’, willing to destroy one nation for the sake of another.
1892 Speaker 15 Oct. 456/1 Mr. Gladstone's Ministry..call their opponents ‘little Englanders’. The real little Englanders are those who think the part of this island which they themselves represent has the right to control the English-speaking races.
1923 R. Macaulay Told by Idiot iii. iv. 192 Stanley was in these days a stop-the-war, pacificist Little Englander, anti-militarist, anti-Chamberlain, anti-Concentration Camp.
1962 Hudson Rev. 15 587 Already there is hardly room on the Continent of Europe for all the..nations, and now that they have begun to roll themselves into one enormous nation,..the feeling in England is that if we don't get in and co-operate we shall simply be buried. There are Little Englanders..who want to keep out.
1975 B. Donoughue Diary 29 May in Downing St. Diary (2005) xv. 393 Joe phoned from Brussels to say that the speech was not what the PM wanted... He is required to be in favour, but he is really a Little Englander.
2008 A. Favell Eurostars & Eurocities iii. 32 The offence to Little Englanders of this particular hole in the ground [sc. the Channel Tunnel] is obvious.

Compounds

General attributive (in sense 2), as Little Englander Liberal, Little Englander party, etc.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > [noun] > specific principles or policies > supporters of
reformist1641
reformer1648
engager1650
All the Virtues1816
Manchester school1846
fair trader1881
Manchestrist1882
Little Englander1889
Manchesterian1897
tariff-reformer1903
Little Englander Liberal1909
Poplarist1925
marketeer1962
Eurosceptic1978
1896 F. C. Selous Sunshine & Storm Rhodesia 259 Can it be wondered at that..the people of Bulawayo..resented the idea of being handed over to Imperial rule.., in order to please the Little Englander party at home?
1909 Twentieth Cent. Dec. 942 The decline of the influence of the ‘Little Englander’ Liberals over the working classes.
1920 E. T. Raymond Life A. J. Balfour ix. 107 Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman..was left to lead the Little Englander rump.
1950 R. A. Brady Crisis in Brit. xiv. 588 It has generally been supposed that British labor..was naturally and inevitably dedicated to the ‘Little Englander’ point of view.
1971 G. R. Searle Quest for Nat. Efficiency iv. 130 Lloyd George and other ‘Little Englander’ radicals were loud in Rosebery's praise.
1990 R. Critchfield Among British i. 33 Mrs. Thatcher's post-1989 contradiction..is how to resolve Britain's role in the post-1992 European Community..with her own Little Englander instincts to cling to the sovereign nation-state.
2013 M. Johnson Militarism & Brit. Left, 1902–1914 iii. 79 Most of these men were committed imperialists, bearing little resemblance to the caricature of the ‘Little Englander’ Liberal.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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