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Cornishman

Cornishman

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A man from Cornwall in southwestern England
  • noun
  • /ˈkɔːnɪʃmən/
: cornishman
  • As a Cornishman, he loved pasties and the coastal views of his homeland.

Examples

  • Every summer, the Cornishman would return to the village where he grew up to visit family.

  • A Cornishman?

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Hear a Cornishman converse

    My Fair Lady (1964)

  • " Could be, I suppose, but I've yet to meet a Frenchie who could tell a Cockney from a Cornishman.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • My grandfather was a proud Cornishman who shared stories about his childhood in Cornwall.

Surface Forms

Cornishman singular
Cornishmen plural

Morphology

Cornishman = Cornish (transparent) = Cornish + man

Meaning is directly derived from the adjective 'Cornish' with the person-denoting element 'man' to indicate a male or person from Cornwall.

Etymology

Cornishman means a man from Cornwall, a county in the southwest of England. The name Cornwall comes from an old word meaning 'horn', because the land sticks out into the sea like a horn, and Cornish means 'of Cornwall', so a Cornishman is simply 'a man from that horn-shaped county'.