Jerseyman
Americannoun
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a native or inhabitant of the island of Jersey.
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a native or inhabitant of New Jersey.
Etymology
Origin of Jerseyman
First recorded in 1815–25; (New) Jersey + -man
Example Sentences
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"The Jerseyman has always been resourceful - and entrepreneurial," she said.
From Reuters ● Nov. 18, 2012
McLeod, another of our men, with Dorsey, the Jerseyman, were asleep in the forecastle.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 11, 2011
Last week the Jerseyman floundered into receivership, but not, Publisher Little insisted, because it changed its mind after 105 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now Jim was an English lad, and the skipper a Jerseyman, and all the business of the court was carried on in French.
From The Life of Roger Langdon Told by himself. With additions by his daughter Ellen. [With a preface by H. Clifton Lambert.] by Henry Clifton Lambert
We only know that this brave young Jerseyman went out to his fate determined to do his duty, no matter what happened, and that he died in doing it.
From Stories of New Jersey by Frank Richard Stockton
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