Leither

English

Etymology

From Leith +‎ -er.

Noun

Leither (plural Leithers)

  1. An inhabitant of Leith.
    • 1986, James Scott Marshall, “The Mediaeval Village”, in The Life and Times of Leith, →ISBN, page 10:
      The magistrates kept insisting that to exercise any trade a Leither must become a burgess of Edinburgh and must reside within the royalty of the city.
    • 2014 September 15, Chitra Ramaswamy, “I’m Indian, English and live in Scotland. Will my son’s identity be as borderless after the referendum?”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      These days I’m a proud Leither, the republic that, as any Edinburgher knows has, had once long enjoyed its own independence.
    • 2018 November 5, Marianne Taylor, “'The wrong type of development': the battle for Edinburgh's Leith Walk”, in The Guardian‎[2]:
      Among them is Trainspotting author and native Leither Irvine Welsh, who now lives in Chicago.
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