Pennamite

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noun

A person from, or fond of, Pennsylvania.

Scrabble 13

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nounPennamite (plural Pennamites)

plural Pennamites

  1. archaichistoricalA person from, or fond of, Pennsylvania.

    Jest say whether yer Yank or Pennamite—that's all that's required in these times.

    1866, James L Bowen, The Maid of Wyoming
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    To be sure Judge Fell and Mr. Miner were Federalists, but the first was an ardent Pennamite while the latter was a regular Yankee and claimant under Connecticut.

    1902, Proceedings and Collections of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society

    In 1778, Pennamite Loyalists joined forces with British officers and Iroquois warriors, mounting an attack on the Wyoming Valley in which at least two hundred Yankee militiamen were killed in less than an hour.

    2014, Andrew Lawson, Class and the Making of American Literature, →ISBN

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Pennamite. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Pennamite

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Chicago

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