Meanings
plural Worcesterites
- Someone from Worcester, Worcestershire, England.
- Someone from Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts.
The Worcesterite replied: "You cannot get anything to drink here, the places for the sale of liquor have all been closed up."
1991, Roy Rosenzweig, “The Rise of the Saloon”, in Chandra Mukerji and Michael Schudson, editors, Rethinking Popular Culture: Contempory Perspectives in Cultural Studies, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 1262 more examples
Mayor Harrington is a New Englander, a Worcesterite by birth and inclination, who loves his town as much as his town loves him.
1890 March 1, “Worcester's Mayor”, in Light, volume 1, number 1, page 19Miller, a frail but clever champion, spent most of the night warding off the wild rushes of the game but incompetent Worcesterite.
1935 October 23, Hy Hurtwitz, “Miller Outclasses Cormier at Garden”, in The Boston Globe, page 22
Origin
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