down-to-earther

From down-to-earth +‎ -er (relational suffix).

down-to-earther (plural down-to-earthers)

1. (informal) A down-to-earth person.
   • 1954 March 17, Trau, “The Morning Show”, in Variety, volume 194, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Variety, →ISSN, →OCLC, Tele Reviews, page 27, column 5:

     Casting the top news developments, here and there supported by films, is Charles Collingwood, another down-to-earther despite the poshy aura about his background (Rhodes scholar, etc.) and the meticulous grooming.

   • 1972, R[onald] F[rederick] Delderfield, “Part Seven: Island in a Torrent”, in To Serve Them All My Days, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, chapter 1, section 3, page 475:

     You’ve got more sense than you think, Chad. I always had a morbid fear you’d turn up one day with one of those mincing little blondes, all promise and no performance. My mother would approve of Alison instantly, and so would Beth. They both had a preference for down-to-earthers.

   • 2002, David E[dward] Jenkins, “Belief in God and what it is to be human”, in The Calling of a Cuckoo: Not Quite an Autobiography, London; New York, N.Y.: Continuum, →ISBN, page 6:

     [T]he case for atheism is by no means as obvious or decisive as atheistic humanists, scientific reductionists and pragmatic down-to-earthers like to think.