Yorkshireman
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- noun
- /ˈjɔrkʃɪrˌmæn/
- You can spot a Yorkshireman or an Irishman by his brogue.
Examples
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Bingo for the Yorkshireman!
Blog text (33) -
It's an old Yorkshireman's trick, and a very good one.
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Hear a Yorkshireman, or worse
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This man is a Yorkshireman.
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Anyone can spot an Irishman or a Yorkshireman by his brogue, but I can place a man within six miles.
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Speaker, I'm a proud Yorkshireman and when I come to London, I'm proud that the glass pods on the London Eye are made by Nova Glaze in Lockwood in my patch.
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A Yorkshireman named Wyatt stole one of Clara's missives from Max's campstool, where he'd left it while fetching a cup of tea.
Fiction book (1999) -
Dixon Lumb, a Yorkshireman, sending his first letter home from Londonderry in Northern Ireland in 1873, gives further impressions from a fellow emigrant's viewpoint.
Academic text (1993) -
Young Georgiana was billed by her father as 'The Mysterious Lady,' and members of the audience were invited to blindfold her in an 'unmasking of clairvoyance' (according to the Yorkshireman in December of that year).
Blog text (7) -
Gilbert, a straight-talking Yorkshireman, possessed a unique sense of humour that attracted many friends.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Yorkshireman comes from the place name York plus shire, an old word meaning 'county', and man. So a Yorkshireman is simply a man from the county of York (the region called Yorkshire) in northern England.