Glaswegian

Part of speech: noun, adjective

Definitions

1. A person born or living in Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland ; of or relating to the city of Glasgow and its inhabitants
2. Someone who comes from Glasgow in Scotland ; belonging to or characteristic of the city, its culture or its people
3. A native or resident of the Scottish city of Glasgow ; having to do with Glasgow, its residents or their distinctive traits

Etymology: Walter Scott gave the word its first real public life. In Rob Roy (1817), the Scottish novelist introduced "Glaswegian" as a term for a person from or living in Glasgow, and it has stuck ever since, though not without protest. In 1923 the Glasgow Herald printed a writer who called it "both ugly and absurd" and urged readers to use "Glasgovians" instead. The word is built from "Glasgow" and the suffix "-ian", but the suffix was chosen by analogy. Scott modelled it on "Galwegian", an inhabitant of Galway, which was itself formed on "Norwegian", a person from Norway. Scott was following a pattern that already existed in English for naming people by their home place.