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GEORDIE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Geordie mean?
• GEORDIE (noun)
The noun GEORDIE has 2 senses:
1. a native of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
2. the nonstandard dialect of natives of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Familiarity information: GEORDIE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A native of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Geordie" is a kind of...):
English person (a native or inhabitant of England)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The nonstandard dialect of natives of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("geordie" is a kind of...):
English; English language (an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries)
Context examples
That won't harm ye, my pretty; an' it may make poor Geordie gladsome to have so trim a lass sittin' on his lap. That won't hurt ye.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
As she told me she tapped playfully with the heel of her boot on the stone slab and said:—"My poor little feet didn't make much noise then! I daresay poor old Mr. Swales would have told me that it was because I didn't want to wake up Geordie."
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Now isn't that stean at any rate—he hammered it with his stick as he spoke—a pack of lies? and won't it make Gabriel keckle when Geordie comes pantin' up the grees with the tombstean balanced on his hump, and asks it to be took as evidence!"
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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