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Boston
[< Chinook Jargon < Cdn F Bostonais an American, orig. a New Englander]
Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
on the Pacific Coast, a person from the United States, as opposed to an Englishman or Canadian.
Quotations
1813
"Ah," he cried, to Captain Black, spreading a fine sea-otter skin upon the deck, "the Bostons are brave, but they have no ships like this [H.M.S. Raccoon]."
1846
When told that the greater part of the chiefs in King George's country, as well as in that of the Boston's, drank, now, nothing stronger than water--he seemed to have a very contemptible opinion of their taste.
1860
He stated that . . . the King George people .. . would not let the Bostons hurt him.