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Sooner

Sooner

8.1
A person who was born in or lives in Oklahoma
  • noun
  • /ˈsuːnər/
translation icon : Sooner
  • The sooners played a significant role in shaping the cultural landscape of Oklahoma.

Examples

  • - That's a scrubby bunch of sooners, huh?

    McLintock! (1963)

  • Many sooners celebrate their statehood with pride during the annual Oklahoma Day festivities.

  • You come in with those sooners?

    McLintock! (1963)

  • Yeah, just one big headache to me, trying to keep all them too-sooners out of there.

    Cimarron (1960)

  • As a lifelong sooner, she loves sharing stories about the state's history and traditions.

Synonyms

Oklahoman
vsSooner
3 3.5

A person born in or living in the US state of Oklahoma

is the historical nickname term with extra cultural and sports connotations

Compounds

Sooner State
1 4.8

A nickname for the US state of Oklahoma

Surface Forms

Sooner singular
Sooners plural

Morphology

Sooner = soon (opaque) = soon + er

Although formally built from 'soon' + '-er', the demonym meaning 'resident of Oklahoma' is a historical/cultural sense that cannot be derived from 'soon'.

Etymology

Sooner comes from the everyday word soon, meaning 'early' or 'quickly'; it was first used for people who went into Oklahoma land 'sooner' than the official start of the land run, so today a Sooner simply means a person from Oklahoma.