Jerseyite
Americannoun
adjective
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A blue-collar New Jerseyite seeks fame with a surrogate family at Manhattan’s Studio 54.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2020
“You guys know that I was a 400-pound Filipino woman before this?” shouted Johnny LoPresto, the event’s MC, a thick-necked New Jerseyite with slick silver hair.
From The Guardian • May 1, 2019
"In all honesty, I will never be able to belong," says Bruce Elliott, a New Jerseyite who married a local woman and bought the Chatham hardware store.
From Time Magazine Archive
One cartoonist who helped slay the stereotyped two-line gag was a bald, weedy-looking New Jerseyite named George Price, who last month rounded out his tenth year as one of The New Yorker's most delirious funnymen.
From Time Magazine Archive
He uttered no word until the three were seated in Theydon's room, and his expression was so woebegone that it stirred even the mercurial Jerseyite to pity.
From Number Seventeen by Tracy, Louis
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