West Briton
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English
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- (Irish): West Brit
Pronunciation
Noun
West Briton (plural West Britons)
- A person from the western part of Britain, a Welsh or Cornish person, especially (historical) the western Britons who resisted the 5th-century Anglo-Saxon invasion.
- (Ireland, derogatory) An Irish person considered to be excessively Anglophile, an Irish person who acts English or desires to be part of British society.
- Synonyms: jackeen, Plastic Paddy, shoneen
- 1914, James Joyce, The Dead:
- —Well, I'm ashamed of you, said Miss Ivors frankly. To say you'd write for a rag like that. I didn't think you were a West Briton.
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References
- “West Briton, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
