Glasgovian

plural Glasgovians · alternative Glasgowian

1. archaicSynonym of Glaswegian.

   Princes Street Gardens will be turned over to neips and the visiting Glasgovian will yield pride of place, as a cause of alarm and dismay, to the Colorado beetle.

   1958 April 11, The Gangrel [pseudonym], “Bats in the Belfry”, in Daily Record, number 19,483, Glasgow: Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 1

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   I visited last week the new dining-rooms for the working-classes at Glasgow; and I will, if you please, describe in a few words what I saw and ate there. I am anxious to do this, because I perceive that a praiseworthy attempt is about to be made in London to follow the example which has been set in Glasgow; and I think that I shall be able to show that the bill of fare issued on Saturday last by “The London Association for the Establishment of Dining and Refreshment Rooms for the Working Classes” lacks one main element—viz. simplicity—which has assured to the Glasgovians the success they so well deserve.

   1863 April 12, a letter writer, quotee, “Working-Class Dining-Rooms”, in [William] Blanchard Jerrold, editor, Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, number 1,064, London: […] Edward Lloyd, […] and Lloyd’s Paper Mills, […], →OCLC, page 8, column 4

   Thunder and lightning over East Ren! ooooft absolutely horsing it down for about ten minutes there andnits^([sic]) still raining heavily. Suspect a few folk might be flooded out at the bottom of the hill. Just sayin' Glasgovians - I was into weather live-tweets before it was cool

   2021 August 6, @joel_ca_c, Twitter (post)

   Synonyms: Glaswegian

comparative more Glasgovian · superlative most Glasgovian · alternative Glasgowian

1. archaicSynonym of Glaswegian.

   I can't imagine a play with Peter Wimsey talking in working class Cockney, Liverpudlian, or Glasgovian English.

   2009 October 7, PaulJK, “British actors in American infomercials”, in sci.lang (Usenet), archived from the original on 21 Jun 2026

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   He [H. A. Long] is careful to inform the readers of the G[lasgow] E[vening] News that pineapples do not grow on trees, but in trenches, “much the same as cauliflowers, broccoli, &c., in our own land;” that “gigs and the like are here termed by the word buggy;” that “this land cannot be developed to the Ayrshire level in three generations;” that the “eucalyptus trees are now mostly without bark, which they shed, instead of dropping their leaves as our trees do, an arrangement of nature regulated by temperature;” that the word Kanaka literally means “snake-killer,” and of many other things more or less true which the Glasgovian mind may be presumed to thirst after.

   1887 January 27, “Our Queensland Letter”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 15,238, Sydney, N.S.W.: John Fairfax and Sons, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 6

   Nor did he shy away from such a crassly realitsic play as John Osbourne’s “The Party,” which I saw a decade or so ago at the Old Vic. For that one, this master of accents honed the speech^([sic]) of the Glasgovian Scots speech.

   1984 January 21, Robert H. Newall, “Bookmarks: [Laurence] Olivier lets his readers down”, in Bangor Daily News, Bangor, Me., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19, column 6

   Synonyms: Glaswegian