Yorkshireperson

English

Etymology

From Yorkshire +‎ -person.

Noun

Yorkshireperson (plural Yorkshirepeople or Yorkshirepersons)

  1. A person from Yorkshire.
    • 2009 July 15, “Rights for Northerners. A PC honours list. What have we done to deserve Harriet Harperson and her equality maniacs?”, in Daily Mail‎[1], London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 July 2009:
      After 'class war', we now apparently have 'location war'. If this idea is allowed to progress beyond Ms Harperson's terrifyingly one-track mind, hundreds of public organisations will have to have special quotas for Yorkshirepersons or Cornishpersons whenever a vacancy occurs.
    • 2011 August 21, “Pass notes, No 3,030: Anne Hathaway”, in The Guardian‎[2]:
      Yes, it must be hell. It hasn't stopped Hathaway, though. The star of The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2 is now the star of One Day, playing complicated, mousey Yorkshireperson Emma Morley.
    • 2011 October 4, Martin Wainwright, “Lancashire starts the fightback against Yorkshire's claims”, in The Guardian‎[3]:
      He has a fair point there; we Yorkshirepeople do get a bit carried away with our ultimate hope of reaching the Irish Sea (and this plan would bring us within six miles of it, psychologically, even though no actual county boundaries would change). But finally – for now but certainly not for ever – there is the issue of the M6.
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