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downhomer
noun
a person who identifies closely with his maritime roots CANADA- Down-homer, in its gently derogatory sense, is also [like “down home”] relative. “The first time I heard the term down-homer,” my father said, it was used by Bill Fraser, a brakeman from Antigonish, to describe a freight-handler from Mulgrave 45 m. away[.] — Harry Bruce, Down Home, p. 284, 1988
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