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Hoosier   /hˈuʒər/   Listen
Hoosier

noun
1.
A native or resident of Indiana.  Synonym: Indianan.



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"Hoosier" Quotes from Famous Books



... are a victim of a most pitiful unrest," said Mother to herself as she watched with satisfaction Ruffle Neck tuck the last despised little Hoosier under her soft gray breast. "Some folks act like they had dyspepsy of the mind. Dearie me, I must go and take a glass of cream to my honey-bird, for that between-meal snack that Tom Mayberry are so perticular about." And she started down toward ...
— The Road to Providence • Maria Thompson Daviess

... four years with "The Graphic Company" he accepted a position as reporter for a paper published at Anderson, Indiana. In addition to his reporting work he wrote many short poems in the Hoosier dialect that took well. So successful was his work on this paper that Judge Martindale of the Indianapolis Journal offered him a position on that paper. About the first thing he now did was to write a series of Benjamin F. Johnson poems. In speaking of this series Mr. Riley said, "These all appeared ...
— Modern Americans - A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades • Chester Sanford

... a break, sir," he had once said, with almost passionate fervour, in talking to Mr. Penzance, "please tell me, and set me on the right track. No fellow likes to look like a hoosier, but I don't mind that half as much ...
— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... hopes of those who had called it. If any came to scoff, they remained to participate with pride in this remarkable convention, which is yet frequently referred to as the largest and most impressive meeting ever held in the Hoosier capital. The call had invited those who could not attend the meeting to manifest their sympathy by sending postal-cards to the corresponding secretary. These were received in such numbers for several days that Mrs. Adkinson and the half-dozen ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various



Words linked to "Hoosier" :   Indianan, Hoosier State, American



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