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baywop en · NOUN

Etymology

From bay + wop.

Meanings

1. (Newfoundland, derogatory, slang) A rural Newfoundlander.
   • How Memorial has changed since then! Back then, the townies may have owned the very few cars that were on the go, may have dominated the best tables in the cafe and certainly didn't need coaching in putting the baywops in their preordained place, […] 1992, Cabot Martin, No Fish and Our Lives: Some Survival Notes for Newfoundland:
   • Furthermore, there was the important distinction on the island between townies and baymen, or baywops. 1987, Nigel Rapport, Talking Violence, page 16:

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