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English
Etymology
Moose Jaw + -v- + -ian
Adjective
Moose Javian (comparative more Moose Javian, superlative most Moose Javian)
- Of or pertaining to the city of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
1997, William R. Barry, People Places: Saskatchewan and Its Names, Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina, →ISBN, page 46:Because the name is so peculiar to non-Moose Javian ears, all kinds of stories about its origin have circulated.
2006, Nick Russell, Morals and the Media, 2nd Edition: Ethics in Canadian Journalism, UBC Press, →ISBN, page 18:(To a small extant, the paper competes with the Regina Leader-Post, the Toronto Globe and Mail, and the National Post, but only the Times-Herald covers the fine detail of Moose Javian life.)
2013, Ken Mitchell, “The New Generation: The '70s Remembered”, in David Carpenter, editor, The Literary History of Saskatchewan, Volume 1, Coteau Books, →ISBN, page 185:Still others claimed that the unusual Moose Javian culture — its history as “Little Chicago,” a sin city, a raucous industrial town in the agricultural heartland — produced this edgy new “urban” literature.
Noun
Moose Javian (plural Moose Javians)
- A native or resident of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
1987, Don McLean, Fifty Historical Vignettes: Views of the Common People, Gabriel Dumont Institute, →ISBN, page 198:During the last week in June each year a tradition known locally as "sidewalk days" brings this diverse population of Moose Javians together for three days of outdoor shopping on Main Street.
2001, John Larsen, Maurice Richard Libby, Moose Jaw: People, Places, History, Coteau Books, →ISBN, page 31:Key Wong, a born-and-raised Moose Javian, recalls his father arrived in Moose Jaw in 1905 as a thirteen-year-old.
2008, Gary Hyland, Love of Mirrors, Coteau Books, →ISBN, page 225:I also lingered in the poetry section of the Moose Jaw Public Library where I discovered and delighted in Dante, Yeats, Eliot, Frost, Auden and Wallace Stevens. […] What was a muddle-headed sixteen-year-old Moose Javian to make of "The Idea of Order at Key West" or "The Wasteland"?