Aberdonian
Britishnoun
adjective
Example Sentences
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Lawrie’s fellow Aberdonian and new European Tour card holder, David Law, is just one of the two-time European Ryder Cup player’s clients.
From Golf Digest ● Dec. 6, 2018
“Took her last look of the phantom in the glass” is from “The Shadows,” a fairy tale by Aberdonian fantasist George MacDonald.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 19, 2013
No matter that the Aberdonian shot a final-day 67 when the rest of the field were moaning and grizzling like bairns about the long grass.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 1, 2012
For his part, Aberdonian Alberto Morrocco was recognised as "the finest portrait painter of his time in Scotland" in one obituary when he died in 1998.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2012
With the Aberdonian "what" is always "fat" or "fatten;" "music" is "meesic;" "brutes" are "breets;" "What are ye duin'?" of southern Scotch, in Aberdeen would be "Fat are ye deein'?"
From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Ramsay, Edward Bannerman
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