North Briton
English edit
Etymology edit
From north + Briton, after North Britain.
Noun edit
North Briton (plural North Britons)
- (now historical) Someone from Scotland; a Scot. [from 18th c.]
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
- About Christmas we set out for England, accompanied by a little North Briton, who lived with lord B— as his companion, and did not at all approve of our correspondence […] .