Moose Javian
English
editEtymology
editFrom Moose Jaw + -v- + -ian.
Adjective
editMoose Javian (comparative more Moose Javian, superlative most Moose Javian)
- Of or pertaining to the city of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
- 2006, Nick Russell, Morals and the Media, 2nd Edition: Ethics in Canadian Journalism, UBC Press, →ISBN, page 18:
- (To a small extant, the paper competes with the Regina Leader-Post, the Toronto Globe and Mail, and the National Post, but only the Times-Herald covers the fine detail of Moose Javian life.)
- 2013, Ken Mitchell, “The New Generation: The '70s Remembered”, in David Carpenter, editor, The Literary History of Saskatchewan, Volume 1, Coteau Books, →ISBN, page 185:
- Still others claimed that the unusual Moose Javian culture — its history as “Little Chicago,” a sin city, a raucous industrial town in the agricultural heartland — produced this edgy new “urban” literature.
Noun
editMoose Javian (plural Moose Javians)
- A native or resident of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
- 1987, Don McLean, Fifty Historical Vignettes: Views of the Common People, Gabriel Dumont Institute, →ISBN, page 198:
- During the last week in June each year a tradition known locally as "sidewalk days" brings this diverse population of Moose Javians together for three days of outdoor shopping on Main Street.
- 2008, Gary Hyland, Love of Mirrors, Coteau Books, →ISBN, page 225:
- I also lingered in the poetry section of the Moose Jaw Public Library where I discovered and delighted in Dante, Yeats, Eliot, Frost, Auden and Wallace Stevens. […] What was a muddle-headed sixteen-year-old Moose Javian to make of "The Idea of Order at Key West" or "The Wasteland"?