caulkhead

plural caulkheads

1. Someone from the Isle of Wight

   Even a bad bastard like Pelly can't hide.' He grinned, looking up at Faraday. 'One happy family, that's us caulkheads.'

   2010, Graham Hurley, Blood And Honey, →ISBN

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   'If you come across caulkheads they'd soon tell you' according to a middle-aged male respondent (2001: 34) who, presumably, was an 'overner' that is, not from the island.

   2007, Meryl Aldridge, Understanding The Local Media, →ISBN, page 13

   'Maybe you could qualify there. But you're definitely not a caulkhead.' 'Caulkhead? You're having me on. Nobody has ever called me a caulkhead before. I hope it ain't insulting.' Foxy was in his element: 'A caulkhead is someone who was born on the island, into a well-established family here.'

   2017, Bobby Cummines, The Parkhurst Years, →ISBN

plural Caulkheads

1. Alternative letter-case form of caulkhead.

   Well I am a Caulkhead (islandborn) so I think it is beautiful.

   2008 May, Ian McMillan, “Island life”, in Learning Disability Practice, volume 11, number 4

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   The island nation's main islands Britain works to keep its myriad small islands in the fold, from the southerly Isle of Wight (where genuine natives are called Caulkheads) to the Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland (closer to the Arctic Circle than London)

   2009, A Whittaker, Britain: Be Fluent in British Life and Culture