Britisher

Meanings

nounBritisher (plural Britishers)

plural Britishers

CanadaIndiaUSA Briton.First known use 19th c.
Even in the heart of London, Britishers boast you're never far from the countryside—only a few stories up!
1959 August 6, “Nixon's Triumphal Return” (2:40 from the start), in Universal Newsreels (32), episode 63, spoken by narrator (Ed Herlihy)
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"Why now, I expect," said the American, "you would not shoot me in cold blood, although you are a Britisher, I guess."
1833, Frederick Chamier, The Life of a Sailor, J. & J. Harper, page 215
[…] 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.
1906, Baroness Orczy, chapter VI, in I Will Repay, London: Greening & Co, page 88
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.
1940 August 16, “France Interns Britishers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page 2
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.
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
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!
2020 October 9, Sudha G Tilak, quoting Edward Anderson, “Row over 'insult' to Indian dish Kamala Harris likes”, in BBC News
IndiaThe British colonial authorities; a European member of the British Raj, especially an officer from the colonial authorities.

adjectiveBritisher (not comparable)

not comparablerareBritish
'Thought you'd like to hear some Britisher music. What you'd like. Some Beatles or some Rolling Stones maybe? They're Britisher, OK?'
2015, Claude Pemberton, Your Friday, My Sunday

adjective

comparativerarecomparative form of British: more British
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.”
1957, Fritz Leiber, The Big Time