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English
Etymology
From Hampshire + -ite.
Noun
Hampshirite (plural Hampshirites)
- Someone from New Hampshire, USA.
1959, Charles Morrow Wilson, The Magnificent Scufflers: Revealing the Great Days when America Wrestled the World, Stephen Greene Press, page 60:But April is a whimsical month when Vermonters and Hampshirites alike are disposed to antic adventures such as trekking to Boston to get married or to New York to see the sights.
- 1965, Richard E. Welch, Theodore Sedgwick, Federalist: A Political Portrait, Wesleyan University Press, page 67:
- He had to keep his mutually jealous Hampshire and Berkshire supporters in reasonable alignment, had to fight the county patriotism of the Hampshirites and their desire to give the palm to a native son, and had to counteract the foul rumor spread by a Deerfield minister that he was a Deist.
1977, Don Higginbotham, The War of American Independence: military attitudes, policies, and practice, 1763-1789, page 192:Though [John] Stark might thumb his nose at Schuyler, the hated Dutchman, who begged the temperamental Hampshirite to bring his following to the Continental camp, he would fight in command of his own kind, in defense of his own soil.
1980, Vermont History, volumes 48-49, page 82:[...] and even the poorest farmer saw enough fraud and subterfuge in the business dealings of his neighbors to recognize double dealing and extortion when he saw it. One militant Hampshirite put New York's seemingly generous offer of half-fees in perspective remarking that it would make as much sense to him if a man who "owned a tract of land in Boston town ... might apply to the Governor of New York to give him a grant for half fees."
- a. 1985, in J. William Pfeiffer (editor), A Handbook of Structured Experiences for Human Relations Training, volumes 1-4, University Associates (1985), page 55:
- Of course, her associations with other leading civic groups, etc., could provide a terrific liaison among Hampshirites who take their civic duties seriously and make CDP all the more effective.
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