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单词 shetlander
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Shetlandern.

Brit. /ˈʃɛtləndə/, U.S. /ˈʃɛtləndər/
Forms: 1600s Schetlander, 1700s– Shetlander.
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Shetland , -er suffix1.
Etymology: < the name of Shetland (see Shetland n.) + -er suffix1. Compare Old Icelandic Hjaltlendingr, Faroese Hetlendingur, Norwegian (Nynorsk) (now hist.) hjaltlending, all in sense ‘inhabitant of Shetland’.With sense 1 compare earlier Zetlander n. at Zetland n. Derivatives. With sense 2 compare earlier Sheltie n. 1, Shetland horse n. at Shetland n. 3a, Shetland pony n. at Shetland n. 3b, and Shetland n. 8b.
1. A native or inhabitant of the Shetland Islands.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > Scots nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Scotland > Scottish islands
Orcadian1614
Zetlander1614
Hebridean1632
Shetlander1690
Orkneyman1730
St. Kildan1764
Sheltie1888
Lewisman1927
1690 tr. G. Buchanan Hist. Scotl. i. 37 The..Schetlanders [L. Hethlandicis] live after the same manner, as the Islanders of the Orcades do, save that as to their Houshold Provision, they are a little more hardy.
1769 J. Robertson Jrnl. 2 June in D. M. Henderson & J. H. Dickson Naturalist in Highlands (1994) iv. 144 The Shetlanders weigh every thing capable of being weighed, on Stil-yards or Pundlers.
1807 J. Hall Trav. Scotl. II. 616 All the labour of the poor Shetlander is under the controul of the landholder.
1882 Miss Gordon-Cumming in 19th Cent. Apr. 573 The Shetlanders have a..singularly descriptive word to express it.
1914 in A. W. Johnston & A. Johnston Old-lore Misc. VII. ii. 74 Shetlanders preferred both fish, flesh and fowl ‘reested’ rather than pickled.
1975 A. Deyell My Shetland 79 A Shetlander, Matthew, who had married a sooth wife, Meg, was living in Glasgow.
2015 Scots Mag. Apr. 81/3 Marian, a native Shetlander, celebrates the food that is caught, reared and grown in Shetland.
2. A Shetland pony. Now rare.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by breed > [noun] > Shetland pony
Sheltie1612
Shetland horsea1757
Shetland pony1769
shelt1774
Shetlander1826
Shetland1834
1826 Sporting Mag. Mar. 293/2 The first of that [Eastern] blood came in with the Crusades, then crossed with the small mountain horse or pony, which has produced among the Welsh and Shetlanders..their great capability of enduring fatigue, so peculiar to the Eastern horse.
1875 S. Sidney Bk. Horse iv. 85 The best Shetlanders come from Unst.
1885 E. King Mem. Rev. D. King ii. 11 His uncle gave him a pony—a small jet black Shetlander.
1900 County Gentleman 23 June 793/3 Eleven Shetlanders were shown in the two classes set apart for this breed.
1980 S. Chaplin Bachelor Uncle 70 This 'un's from Cumberland, this un's from Dartmoor; him in the corner's a Shetlander.
2009 B. Doyle tr. J. Geeraerts Public Prosecutor ii. 23 The pony was a Shetlander with a bushy mane and distrustful expression.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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