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Geordie   /dʒˈiərdi/   Listen
Geordie

noun
1.
A native of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
2.
The nonstandard dialect of natives of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.






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"Geordie" Quotes from Famous Books



... ye noo," she said, as she seated herself at length beside the other. "The gowk, Geordie Bray!" she went on, "—to tak it intill's oogly heid 'at the cratur wad be hurklin' here! It's no the place for ane 'at has to hide 's heid for verra shame o' slippin' aff the likes o' himsel' upo' sic a braw mither! Could he get nae ither door ...
— Malcolm • George MacDonald

... his secretary, talking to himself nearly all the way, until they came within a mile or two of London, when now and then some passenger went by who knew him by sight, and pointed him out to some one else, and perhaps stood looking after him, or cried in jest or earnest as it might be, 'Hurrah Geordie! No Popery!' At which he would gravely pull off his hat, and bow. When they reached the town and rode along the streets, these notices became more frequent; some laughed, some hissed, some turned their heads and smiled, some wondered who he ...
— Barnaby Rudge • Charles Dickens



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