Sussexer

English

Etymology

From Sussex +‎ -er.

Noun

Sussexer (plural Sussexers)

1. (rare) A native or inhabitant of Sussex.
   • 1833 February 14, Javelin, “Pocket and Pot-Hunting; or, The Harriers That Infest the Brighton Downs”, in The Sporting Magazine, or Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of The Turf, The Chase, and Every Other Diversion, Interesting to the Man of Pleasure, Enterprise, & Spirit, volume 6, second series, or volume 81, old series, number XXXV, London: M. A. Pittman, published March 1833, page 385:

     The hounds had it all their own way, and the pace was much too quick for the eternal “hold hard!” the prophetic cry of the Sussexers.

   • 1860, J. H. Powell, “The Sibyl of the Devil’s Dyke. Chapter II. An Escape from Death.—Big Bill, the Coast Guardsman.—The Meeting and Parting of the Lovers.”, in Powell’s Domestic Magazine, number 3, London: Marlborough and Co., […]. Brighton: Embling and Beal, […], page 96:

     “Are you that same Wentworth Talbot the Sussexers talk about being clever as a painter?”

   • 1861 September 28, John Williams, “Visit of a City London Missionary to a “Mop” or “Statute Fair.””, in The North Wales Chronicle and Advertiser for the Principality, volume XXXV, number 1798, Bangor, Gwynedd: […] J. K. Douglas, page 2:

     Since then, by the kindness of a distinguished Christian lady, I have had the pleasure of spending some twelve days amongst the Sussexers on the coast of Brighton,—concerning whom I may have something to say by and by.

   • 1875 March 25, “The State Aid Question”, in Delaware Tribune. A Weekly Journal of News, Literature, and Agriculture‎^[1], volume IX, number 430, Wilmington, Del.:

     The Gazette, of this city, defending itself against the indignation of the Sussex Journal, and excusing its course in opposing the development of the Sussex railroad system, says: “If the loan of the State’s credit was safe, we would favor it.” […] But the Gazette does not oppose the present demand of the Sussex-ers “on principle.”

   • 1880 September 13, “A Curious Sussex Product”, in Daily Morning News‎^[2], volume II, number 11, Wilmington, Del.:

     Marshal McMullen had a long but unsuccessful chase after him some time since; but Adams afterward gave himself up to the Sheriff of Sussex county, and suffered 30 days imprisonment for violating the State’s liquor laws. Once out, Adams again set up his “jug tavern.” Deputy Marshal Ainscow captured him this time, though the wily Sussexer nearly gave the officer the slip.

   • 1891 June 17, The Pall Mall Gazette, volume LII, number 8187, page 6:

     This phalanx of stalwart young Sussexers, following to the grave the beloved lady who had given them of the best to be had, material, social, and intellectual, formed a touching feature in a funeral in every other respect exceptional.

   • 1892, G. Bernard Shaw, “Shaming the Devil about Shelley”, in The Albemarle: A Monthly Review, volume II, London: Messrs. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., pages 91–92:

     WHEN I first saw the proposal that Shelley’s native county should celebrate the centenary of his birth by founding a Shelley Library and Museum at Horsham, I laughed—not publicly, because that would have been the act of a spoil-sport, but in my sleeve. The native county in question was Sussex, […] But Shelley was not the man to claim freedom of enmity, and say nothing about freedom of love. If father and son are to be as free in their relation to one another as hundredth cousins are, so must sister and brother. The freedom to curse a tyrannical father is not more sacred than the freedom to love an amiable sister. In a word, if filial duty is no duty, then incest is no crime. This sounds startling even now, disillusioned as we are by Herbert Spencer, Elie Réclus and other writers as to there being anything “natural” in our code of prohibited degrees; but in Shelley’s time it seemed the summit of impious vice, just as it would to the Sussexers to-day, if they only knew.

   • 1895 October 24, Inspector, “Lessons by the Way. In Sussex.”, in The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Home Farmer. A Chronicle of Country Pursuits and Country Life Including Bee-Keeping., volume XXXI, third series, London, page 385:

     In this work some of the natives are wide awake enough, for they will give 2s. or so for “birds” in Ireland and in three weeks sell them for 6s. or 7s. each in London in “Parlyment time;” and when this is done by scores of thousands, as is the case, the aggregate profits must amount, as the typical Sussexer will tell you in his moments of leisure, and in his leisurely way, to a “tidy little bit.”

   • 1899 July 28, Cover-Point, “Cricket of the Week: Notes, News, and Gossip. By Our Special Cricket Correspondent.”, in Manchester Weekly Times, and Salford Weekly News, number 2190, section “What a Falling Off was There”, page 8:

     Middlesex may bid a long farewell to the County Championship. Their team came a dreadful cropper early on in the week, and their crack bowlers, Trott and Roche (foreign imports both), never mention J. T. Hearne, who didn’t take a solitary wicket, were powerless to prevent a severe defeat at the hands of Messrs. Fry, Ranjit, Bland, and Co., of Sussex. […] But the Sussexers owe their success chiefly to Tate and Cyril Bland — the latter a fast bowler, who, according to that fine writer on cricket as well as great exponent of the game—I allude to C. B. Fry—is “capable of work equal in merit to that of such great bowlers as Richardson and Mold.”

   • 1906, Gerald Biss, Branded, or, The Daughters of a Convict:

     There’s no need for a coachman, as you won’t be going out at all at present; and the old gardener, whom I’ve taken with the house, of which he is part and parcel, is as stolid and unimaginative a Sussexer as you could find in this Boeotian county.

   • 1962 November 7, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): House of Commons Official Report, page 1055:

     For all practical purposes New Zealanders might be Sussexers. They have the same breed of people and the same breed of sheep, the Southdown breed of sheep having originated in my constituency in the last century.

   • 1967 November 22, “Kent/Sussex Border Dispute Flares Up: Wessex Offers to Mediate”, in Punch, page 784:

     “Lot of bleeding socialists, they been and bankrupted their economy building a school for forty kids at Brighton. Then they try and get themselves out of nick by a spot of nifty devaluation, printing a lot of paper groats, see, but people in these parts know just how far you can trust a Sussexer. I heard that a few of those gnomes up in Norwich lost a packet though.”

Synonyms

• Sussexian

German

Adjective

Sussexer (indeclinable, no predicative form)

1. of or relating to Sussex
   • 2019 December 9, Christopher Huang, Tod eines Gentleman: Roman‎^[3], Heyne Verlag, →ISBN, →OCLC:

     Ich habe mir die Freiheit herausgenommen, selbst den Tag festzulegen, damit Eric Peterkin die Sussexer Zeitungen innerhalb weniger Tage vorliegen hatte. Heutzutage ist das gesamte Archiv natürlich digitalisiert, und was früher womöglich wochenlanges Suchen erforderte, lässt sich heute in wenigen Minuten im Internet finden.

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Usage notes

• Words like this are considered indeclinable adjectives, as noted by Duden, DWDS and other modern German references, but are capitalized because they originated as genitive plurals of substantives. See -er for more.