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Edinburger en · NOUN

Etymology

From Edinburgh + -er.

Meanings

1. An inhabitant of Edinburgh.
   • Why would he want to become an Edinburger? He's proud of his Fife roots. 2013, Daniel Gray, Stramash!: Tackling Scotland's Towns and Teams, →ISBN, page 108:
   • At this time there happened to be a traveling skeptic in Edinburg, who was determined not to enter a church, or pay the least deference to the religious habits of the God-fearing Edinburgers. 1875, Wayside Gleanings in Europe, page 19:
   • Socially, Edinburgh is a finely balanced mixture of middle and working classes; conservative in manner, often muted in voice, Edinburgers are perhaps the polar opposites to the brash, tanned, self-aggrandizing population of its near neighbour, Glasgow. 2014, Andrew-Henry Bowie, The Death of Mr. Grumble, →ISBN:
2. A frozen boneless pre-cooked kipper.
   • The phenomenal increase in domestic "fish-stick" production in the United States has reacted to the detriment of "Edinburgers" (see paragraph 2 (a), page 29, Nineteenth Annual Report), and, consequently, the Board were not invited in 1954 to undertake further production for British Kipper Exporters Ltd. 1956, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Papers by Command - Volume 17, page 29:
   • "We are especially pleased that our efforts to obtain 'Edinburgers' for the American market were successful," said Mr. Greene, "Offering an import of this caliber to the trade provides them with an additional sales and profit opportunity". 1953, Fishing Gazette - Volume 70, page 118:
   • Undaunted, in 1953 they introduced the United States consumers to the 'Edinburger', the world's first fresh frozen boneless kipper. 2013, Christopher Unsworth, The British Herring Industry: The Steam Drifter Years 1900-1960, →ISBN:

Forms

Deriveds

Edinbugger

Synonyms

Edinburghian · Edinbronian

Translations (6)

es edimburgués (person from or inhabitant of Edinburgh) · es edimburguesa (person from or inhabitant of Edinburgh) · ka ედინბურგელი (person from or inhabitant of Edinburgh) · fr Édimbourgeois (person from or inhabitant of Edinburgh) · fr Édimbourgeoise (person from or inhabitant of Edinburgh) · it edimburghese (person from or inhabitant of Edinburgh)