Amishperson

English

Etymology

From Amish +‎ -person.

Noun

Amishperson (plural Amishpersons or Amishpeople)

1. (rare) A member of the Amish.
   • 1984 February 18, Brian Resh, “He Would Ban All Amish Buggies”, in Lancaster New Era, 106th year, number 33,492, Lancaster, Pa., page 8:

     Sure, a few buggies pull off the road and let drivers pass, but most show no courtesy and keep crawling on their merry little way. The Amish should stay home, get a ride from someone who drives, or learn to drive themselves. Come on all you Amishpeople out there, give the rest of us a break!

   • 1988, Andrea Fishman, Amish Literacy: What and How It Means, Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, →ISBN, pages 37 (The Family at Home) and 208 (Getting Here from There: A Look Back at the Ethnographic Process):

     While her writer’s awareness seems almost always conscious, her reader’s knowledge most often seems to operate implicitly, allowing Anna, as a good Amishperson, to posit meaning in the text. […] I knew from the courses I had taken, the reading I had done, and the conversations I had had with faculty ethnographers, that one of my ethnographic tasks would be to discover what an individual had to know to be a good successful Amishperson, to lead a good Amish life and get along successfully in Amish society.

   • 1999 June 4, Naomi Wyble, “Upset by photo from accident”, in Intelligencer Journal, 205th year, number 303, Lancaster, Pa., page A-17:

     I wonder if you got permission from the young Amishman who was pictured in his hospital bed in your newspaper Wednesday morning, or from the woman who was sitting by his bed. […] It surprises me you would not be more sensitive to Amishpersons’ wishes for privacy and non-photography.

   • 2007, Beverly Lewis, The Parting, Minneapolis, Minn.: Bethany House, →ISBN, page 298:

     Being the only Amishperson in the room made her feel like a pea out of its pod, yet she was determined to see Kate.

Hyponyms

• Amishman
• Amishwoman