Juneauite

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Juneau +‎ -ite

Noun[edit]

Juneauite (plural Juneauites)

  1. An inhabitant of Juneau.
    • 2005, Ed Readicker-Henderson, Lynn Readicker-Henderson, Adventure Guide Inside Passage & Coastal Alaska, →ISBN, page 240:
      The lodge was originally built as a retreat for a Juneauite in 1923.
    • 2006, Preston Jones, Empire's Edge: American Society in Nome, Alaska, 1898-1934, →ISBN:
      The bare mention of the name Skagway sets the average Juneauite wild, not with an honest spirit of business rivalry, but with a small, petty, envious feeling akin to the mean jealousy of a dyspeptic dwarf at the overtowering size of a well-formed man.
    • 2014, Nick Jans, A Wolf Called Romeo, →ISBN, page 138:
      One of my neighbors, a crusty, lifelong Juneauite, informed me with a sardonic leer that the first time the wolf stepped on his property—a scant hundred yards from one of the Romeo's favored trails—would be the last.
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