West Briton
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West Briton (plural West Britons)
- (Ireland) Derogatory term for an Irish person whose cultural identity is perceived as being very British, or seems to want to be part of British society; Often shortened to West Brit.
- In James Joyce's "The Dead", a character from upper class Ireland who writes for a British newspaper under a pen name gets called a West Brit (from the collection Dubliners).
