north countryman

English

Etymology

From north country +‎ man.

Noun

north countryman (plural north countrymen)

  1. Someone from the north of England.
    • 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies:
      You must look at Bewick to see just what it was like, for he has drawn it a hundred times with the care and the love of a true north countryman […].
    • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 195:
      James Middleton, a wandering north-countryman, […] declared himself to be a Stuart, sprung from a line of Scottish kings, and endowed with a special power to heal the falling sickness.
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