Johannesburger

Johannesburger

English

Etymology

Johannesburg +‎ -er

Noun

Johannesburger (plural Johannesburgers)

1. an inhabitant of Johannesburg.
   • 1949, Douglas Reed, Somewhere South of Suez: A Further Survey of the Grand Design of the Twentieth Century, page 48:

     By using a midget, skin-tight car of the kind made in Italy the Johannesburger might save himself much tribulation, but he likes large and glittering things, and would rather toil round his city in vain search of a place to put his supercharged, supergrinning Mammalac than use a baby car.

   • 1978, Johannesburg: The Cosmopolitan City, page 7:

     A Johannesburger will seldom ask a visitor what he thinks of the city.

   • 2001, Phaswane Mpe, Welcome to Our Hillbrow: A Novel of Postapartheid South Africa, Ohio University Press (→ISBN), page 81:

     All Refilwe knew was that Lerato was a Johannesburger.