List of regional nicknames

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The list of regional nicknames includes nicknames for people based on their locality of origin (birthplace, place of permanent residence, or family roots).

Nicknames based on the country (or larger geopolitical area) of origin may be found in the List of ethnic slurs.

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[edit] Terms based on specific locations

Arkie / Arky 
(U.S.) similar to Okie, except from Arkansas instead of Oklahoma.[1]
Banana bender 
(Australia) a person from Queensland (one who puts the bend in bananas).[2]
Bluenose 
(Canada) a person from Nova Scotia. Often used with pride by residents of this province. [either named (a) for a famous schooner originating from said province, (b) the name of a potato with a blue protuberance, or (c) to Scots Presbyterians referred to as "true blue" in the 17th century].[3]
Chigger 
a term of disparagement for someone who lives in Chigwell, Tasmania.
Chilango
(Mexico) A person born in Mexico City. Also in some northern regions of Mexico, a chilango can be said to be any person from central Mexico.
Flatlanders
Jackeen 
(Ireland) A derogatory term in rural Ireland for a person from Dublin, possibly because of Dublin's Unionist community at the start of the 1900s, or possible a reference to the term Jacobite.[4]
JAFA, jafa 
(NZ) Just Another Fucking Aucklander. A resident of Auckland New Zealand, as referred to by other New Zealanders.[5]
Hoosier 
a person from Indiana
Newfie, Newfier, Newf 
(CAN) a person from Newfoundland,[6] can be used as a term of pride.
North Briton 
(UK/Scotland) A Scottish person who identifies themselves as Unionist.
Okie 
a person from Oklahoma
Pea soup, pea-souper 
(CAN) obsolete: a Quebecer (or "French-Canadian").[7] From French Pea Soup
Regio
(Mexico) See Regiomontano below
Regiomontano
(Mexico) Someone from the northern Mexican city Monterrey
Sandgroper 
(AUS) a Western Australian of any ethnicity.[8]
Scouser 
(UK) Someone from Liverpool. Not considered particularly offensive. [2]
Spud Islander 
(CAN) a person born on Prince Edward Island in the Maritimes - from the amount of potatoes or "spuds" grown there.[9]
Yellowbelly (Copthorne)
Yellowbelly (Lincolnshire)

[edit] Terms for unsophisticated people from rural, remote, etc. areas

Goober 
(U.S.) a rural person with a "glorious lack of sophistication" (from the slang term for "peanut")
Hillbilly 
(U.S.) a rural white person, esp. one from Appalachia or the Ozarks.
Hoosier 
(St. Louis area of Missouri and Illinois) a lower class, uneducated white person. Anywhere else, a non-offensive term for a native of Indiana.
Jatt 
(India & UK) a low-class rural person, who farms in North West India, and usually lacks manners or education. Usually used as a term of abuse to describe someone who is very stupid or does not understand things easliy. Usage, e.g.: "Why can't you understand what I am telling you, are you some kind of Jatt!!!"
Redneck 
(U.S.) a rural white person, typically of Scots-Irish descent. There are varying possible etymologies for this term. Primarily used to denote lower-class rural whites.
Swamp Yankee 
(U.S.:New England) refers to rural white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant farmers in New England, particularly in Rhode Island and western Connecticut.[10]
Westie/Westy 
(Aus/NZ) A person from the western suburbs of Auckland or Sydney, the slur implying lower class
Yokel 
(U.S./Canada) an unrefined white person, implicitly rural and "hick" (not necessarily "white trash" but inclusive of same).[11]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Green, p. 27.
  2. ^ The Australian Oxford Dictionary, 2nd edition. Ed. Bruce Moore. (Oxford University Press, 2004) [Accessed 6 May 2006].
  3. ^ The Canadian Oxford Dictionary. Katherine Barber. (Oxford University Press: 2004) [Accessed 8 May 2006]
  4. ^ Share, op. cit. p. 168.
  5. ^ Deverson, "JAFA," op. cit. [Accessed 6 May 2006].
  6. ^ Ibid. "Newfie"
  7. ^ Barber, "pea soup," op. cit. [Accessed 7 May 2006]
  8. ^ "sandgroper" Moore, op. cit. [Accessed 6 May 2006].
  9. ^ Barber, "Spud Island," op. cit. [Accessed 7 May 2006].
  10. ^ [1]
  11. ^ www.answers.com
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