Dictionary

Jerseyman en · NOUN

Etymology

From Jersey + -man.

Meanings

1. (dated) A male inhabitant of Jersey (the largest island of the Channel Islands).
2. (archaic) A male inhabitant of New Jersey (a U.S. state).
   • The Board of Education have proposed, and the Governor concurs, that the schools should be free. There are fifteen hundred schools in the State, seven hundred of which are free: and it seems to me that it would be a great thing to make them all free. (Cheers.) If you will do this, you will never be afraid to look a Jerseyman, who is a true patriot, in the face. When this is done, a great desire for knowledge will spring up in the minds of the rising generation, and wise legislators will meet the wants as they come. 1871, “Addresses Delivered in Reference to Free High Schools, Before the Legislature of New Jersey, March 1st, 1871.”, in Documents of the Ninety-Fifth Legislature of the State of New Jersey, and the Twenty-Seventh Under the New Constitution. Printed by Order of the Legislature, Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.A: Pangborn, Dunning & Dear, page 1219:
   • The proper choice of a location was now to be the great question of my future success. I had determined on giving my attention to the raising of the smaller fruits for the great markets of New York and Philadelphia. I must therefore be somewhere on or near the railroad between those cities, and as near as possible to a station. The soil of Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, was too heavy for some of the lighter fruits. New Jersey, with its admirable sandy loam light, warm, and of surprisingly easy tillage, was proverbially adapted for the growth of all market produce, whether fruit or vegetable, and was at the same time a week or two earlier. Land was far cheaper, there was no State debt, taxes were merely nominal, and an acre that could be bought for thirty dollars could be made four times as productive as an acre of the best wheat land in Pennsylvania. Such results are regularly realized by hundreds of Jerseymen from year to year. 1864, Edmund Morris, “Chapter III.—Resolved to go—Escape from Business—Choosing a Location”, in Ten Acres Enough: A Practical Experience Showing How a Very Small Farm May be Made to Keep a Very Large Family, With Extensive and Profitable Experience in the Cultivation of the Smaller Fruits, New York: James Miller, page 26:

Forms

Coordinates

Jerseywoman · Jerseywoman

Hypernyms

person · New Jerseyan · Jerseyite · New Jerseyite · person · Jerseyite

Translations (2)

fr Jersiais (a male inhabitant of Jersey) · nrf Jèrriais (a male inhabitant of Jersey)