Yorkshireman

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A man who was born in or lives in Yorkshire, a large county in northern England
2. A male native or resident of the historic English county of Yorkshire in the north of England
3. Someone from Yorkshire, the northern English region famed for its moors, dales and cricket heritage

Etymology: "Yorkshireman" is a plain compound: the place name Yorkshire followed by "man", the ordinary English word for a male person, used here as a suffix meaning a native or inhabitant of a place. The second element traces back through Old English "mann" to a Germanic root shared with German "Mann", and it has long served this way in English, so the word needs no special story beyond its two parts. The first element, Yorkshire, is the county in northern England, named from the city of York with the Old English "-scir" meaning "shire" or administrative district. Combining a regional name with "-man" follows a pattern English uses for people from many places, so the word simply labels a person by county of origin.

Synonyms: tyke