Wirralian

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Wirral +‎ -ian

Noun[edit]

Wirralian (plural Wirralians)

  1. An inhabitant of the Wirral peninsula.
    • 1970, The Bedside "Guardian", volume 19, page 195:
      You could put a Wirralian and a Boltonian in the same railway compartment and swear that they came from opposite poles of the old empire.
    • 1981, Kenneth Burnley, Portrait of Wirral, page 13:
      For the true Wirralian, his home is "over the water" from Liverpool and the rest of Merseyside.

Adjective[edit]

Wirralian (comparative more Wirralian, superlative most Wirralian)

  1. From or pertaining to the Wirral peninsula.
    • 1938, Edmund Vale, How to see England, page 20:
      There is no place called Wirral: it is purely a hundred name. Undeniably the people of that part are a clique with a Wirralian outlook.
    • 2008 June 2, Stephen Baxter, A personal reflection on a Wirralian life, Liverpool Daily Post