Edinburghian
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
Edinburghian (plural Edinburghians)
- A person from Edinburgh.
- Synonyms: Edinbronian, Edinburger
- 2002, Scott Allen Nollen, Jethro Tull: A History of the Band, 1968–2001, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 68:
- 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.”
Translations edit
person from Edinburgh — see Edinburger