Vectensian

English

Adjective

Vectensian (not comparable)

1. of or from the Isle of Wight.
   • 1800, The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, page 379:

     This probability is strengthened by the enthusiastic praises Wilkes always bestowed on the native charms of the lower class of Vectensian females; and in his hours of levity with the companions of his gallantries, he always distinguished it by the name of Cyprus.

   • 1969, Poetry Review, page 56:

     Of a similar type, but dealing with a less cultivated, less fertile field, is the anthology of Vectensian verse, Poets of the Wight, compiled by Charles J. Arnell.

   • 1988, Nicholas Parsons, The Joy of Bad Verse, HarperCollins:

     Equally satisfying to the connoisseur is the poem Cupid and Euphrospie by Percy Goddard Stone, a Vectensian poet whose work never really made it on the mainland.

Noun

Vectensian (plural Vectensians)

1. someone from the Isle of Wight
   • 1914, John Morgan Richards, Almost Fairyland, personal notes concerning the Isle of Wight:

     I have never been able to appreciate nor to understand why it is that Vectensians are constantly challenged to explain why they live in the Isle of Wight at all.

   • 2007, Mark Gardiner, “The” Archaeological Journal, →ISBN, page 13:

     In reality, a readily agreed confederation seems the most likely course for Vectensians in AD 43.

   • 2019, Skye Smith, Knut - Forkbeard's Peace: Novel Four of the Knut Series by Skye Smith, Skye Smith, →ISBN:

     The Isle of Wight had been a winter port for Danish and Norse ships off and on for a century or more, and during this decade the Vectensians had begun to welcome visits by such ships.