Edinburghian en · NOUN
Etymology
From Edinburgh + -ian.
Meanings
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A person from Edinburgh.
Based on people he had observed in Hampstead, the song borrows from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island when the narrator calls himself “Long John Silver” […]. But apparently Anderson's fellow Edinburghian had no influence on “Mother Goose.”
2002, Scott Allen Nollen, Jethro Tull: A History of the Band, 1968–2001, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 68:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edinburghians | Number=Plur | lexicographic |