A native or inhabitant of New England.

A resident beside a bay (usually some specific bay); one accustomed to navigating a bay. U.S. History, an inhabitant or native of Massachusetts Bay.

With plural agreement. Inhabitants of New England. Obsolete.

A New Englander.

A New Englander. Obsolete.

U.S. A nickname for a native or inhabitant of New England, or, more widely, of the northern States generally; during the War of Secession applied…

U.S. A contemptuous name given in southern States of North America to the ‘poor whites’; whence, familiarly, to the native whites of Georgia and…

= Yankee, n. adj.

One accustomed to beat about or make his way through bushes; a backwoodsman, a bush-ranger.

U.S. regional. Frequently with capital initial. An inhabitant of the lowlands of Virginia. Cf. Cohee, n. Now historical.

A native or inhabitant of the south or the southern part of a country or region. Usually with capital initial. Of the Southern states of the United…

Stated to be a North American Indian corruption of English, applied to the people of New England. (Cf. Yankee, n. adj.)

U.S. colloquial (usually derogatory). A person thought to resemble a muskrat in some way; spec. an inhabitant of a low-lying district, esp. the…

A blue-bellied person (blue-bellied, adj. 1), one regarded as low, contemptible, or cowardly; spec. (a) a northerner; (b) a northern soldier…

Formerly used in the phr. half horse and half alligator (see quots.). Usu. attrib.

U.S. = southerner, n. a.

spec. A person living in or coming from the northern part of the United States.

spec. A native or inhabitant of the western United States.

U.S. = northerner, n. 2. Obsolete.

U.S. A native or inhabitant of the eastern part of the United States, esp. one of the north-eastern states.

Chiefly U.S. A native or inhabitant of the south-western part of a country or region, esp. the United States.

U.S. A native or inhabitant of the western United States; = westerner, n. 1b. Now rare.

one of a class of ‘poor whites’ living in the pine-woods that cover the sandy hills of Georgia and South Carolina.

a native or inhabitant of the island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

In extended use: a person who lives in a mountainous area; a hillbilly.

a settler in, or inhabitant of, the Far West.

U.S. Designating a native or inhabitant of New England. Chiefly in blue-nosed Yankee.

A native or inhabitant of the Appalachian area.

An inhabitant of the Pacific slope of the United States.

A native or inhabitant of the Ozark region; = Ozarker, n. Also: the dialect of English spoken by these people.

Chiefly U.S. A supporter of the Confederate cause during the American Civil War (1861–5), esp. a member of the Confederate States Army (now historical…

= rebel, n.1 2d; (also more generally) any rebel. Cf. Johnny Reb, n.

A native or inhabitant of the Midwest.

A person from a remote rural or mountainous area, esp. of the south-eastern U.S. Also attributive and transferred.

A native or inhabitant of the American Midwest.

A native or inhabitant of the Ozark region of the central United States.

(See quot. 1934.) Also: a derogatory term for a black person of the southern United States. Cf. Gullah, n.

A native or inhabitant of Middle America (Middle America, n. 1) as a geographical region.

one who lives or comes from upstate.

A native or inhabitant of Mid-America (Mid-America, n. 1).