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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



... Auld Geordie was on his feet, announcing with great glee that a convoy of treasure, bound for Edinburgh, was on its way at that moment from Newcastle, so he had heard, and would pass within three ...
— Boycotted - And Other Stories • Talbot Baines Reed
... the village cobbler, bought two clocks, one a grandfather's. He put it in a corner and placed a small nickel clock on the mantel-shelf. The grandfather's clock has not been altered to the Daylight Saving Bill's requirements. "Hoo is't, Geordie," asked a customer, "ye've altered the smaal clock ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher
... for me, Ned," he remarked; "you shall give me that old highland-reel that you learned from Scotch Geordie. It will put me out of my bad humor, I think, and we can go to bed quietly. I've come to sleep ...
— Charlemont • W. Gilmore Simms
... write to him when I am well over the Border,' said Geordie, 'and gin he kens that your father had no hand in it he will deem no ill-will. Nor could he harm you ...
— Two Penniless Princesses • Charlotte M. Yonge


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