Bostoner

Bostoner

English

Etymology

From Boston +‎ -er

Noun

Bostoner (plural Bostoners)

1. A person who was born in or who lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
   • 1901, Calendar of State Papers:

     Sir Edmund took the field himself and had brought the Indians to great distress when the Bostoners seized him, surprised his officers, seized the ships, embezzled the stores, supplied the enemy with ammunition and left us a prey to them.

   • 1990, Hanoch Teller, Leṿi Yitsḥaḳ Horoṿits (ha-Leṿi.), The Bostoner:

     The original idea was to erect several large buildings to serve as the nucleus of a Bostoner community, and to convert one of the apartments into a shul.

   • 2011, Owen Stanwood, The Empire Reformed:

     As strangely dressed foreigners Danckaerts and Sluyter stood out, and many Bostoners feared they were papists in disguise.

   • 2015, James G. Houston, Growth of a Man:

     Some viewed the Yankees as monopolizing the sport with all that money they had to offer. Well, that's the way many Bostoners viewed it.

Synonyms

• Bostonian