yooper
/ˈyo͞opər
/noun US informal
A native or inhabitant of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.He is, you may have guessed correctly, a Yooper who lives in Iowa....
- To them it's entirely feasible that being a Yooper is less of a birthright and more of a way of life.
- In Michigan everyone who lives south of the bridge is called a "Troll," while everyone who lives above the bridge is called a "Yooper."
Origin
1970s: representing a pronunciation of the initial letters of Upper Peninsula + -er1.
- self-promoting
- self-promotion
- self-propagating
- self-propagation
- self-propelled
- self-propelling
- self-protection
- self-protective
- self-proving
- self-publicist
- self-publish
- self-publisher
- self-punishment
- self-raising flour
- self-rating
- self-realisation
- self-realization
- self-referential
- self-referentiality
- self-referentially
- self-reflection
- self-reflective
- self-reflexive
- self-regard
- self-regarding