Britisher

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English

Britishers

Etymology

From British +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

Britisher (plural Britishers)

  1. (now chiefly Canada, US, India) A Briton.
    • 1833, Frederick Chamier, The Life of a Sailor, J. & J. Harper, page 215:
      "Why now, I expect," said the American, "you would not shoot me in cold blood, although you are a Britisher, I guess."
    • 1906, Baroness Orczy, chapter VI, in I Will Repay, London: Greening & Co, page 88:
      [] and as he spoke, there was just a soupçon of foreign accent in the pronunciation of the French vowels, a certain drawl of o's and a's, that would have betrayed the Britisher to an observant ear.
    • 1940 August 16, “France Interns Britishers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page 2:
      French newspapers carried today a notice that all Britishers between the ages of 15 and 65 have been interned in special camps. Women and sick men have not been interned.
    • 1959 August 6, “Nixon's Triumphal Return” (2:40 from the start), in Universal Newsreels (32), episode 63, spoken by narrator (Ed Herlihy):
      Even in the heart of London, Britishers boast you're never far from the countryside—only a few stories up!
    • 1967, Trudy Baker, Rachel Jones, Donald Bain (uncredited), Coffee, Tea, or Me?: The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses, New York: Bantam Books, page 248:
      From what we've heard, some of the gayest, hottest and most unusual bedroom scenes have resulted from a stewardess accepting the stiff and proper advance of a Britisher.
    • 2020 October 9, Sudha G Tilak, quoting Edward Anderson, “Row over 'insult' to Indian dish Kamala Harris likes”, in BBC News:
      A lot of people have made the very valid point that it is a bit rich for a Britisher to criticise Indian food as being bland!
  2. (India) The British colonial authorities; a European member of the British Raj, especially an officer from the colonial authorities.

Translations

Adjective

Britisher (not comparable)

  1. (rare) British
    • 2015, Claude Pemberton, Your Friday, My Sunday:
      'Thought you'd like to hear some Britisher music. What you'd like. Some Beatles or some Rolling Stones maybe? They're Britisher, OK?'

Adjective

Britisher

  1. (rare) comparative form of British: more British
    • 1957, Fritz Leiber, The Big Time:
      She took a deep breath and stuck out her chin and said in a voice that was even a little higher and Britisher than she usually uses, “We girls have often cried, ‘Shut the Door!’ But now the Door is jolly well shut for keeps.”

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