Paltripolitan

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Paltripolitan

Postby Grogie » Thu Oct 07, 2021 2:09 pm

A city dweller. ''Many rural people just don,t understand paltripolitans.''

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Re: Paltripolitan

Postby Slava » Thu Oct 07, 2021 5:04 pm

From Shipley's Dictionary of Early English 1955:

paltripolitan. An insular city-dweller.
Coined in scorn from metropolitan and
paltry. Originally intended of a churchman;
a metropolis was a cathedral city.
"Martin Marprelate" in HAY ANY WORKE
FOR COOPER (1589) threatened: I will so
thunderthump your paltripolitans . . .

Anyone care to come up with a way to use this in modern times?

I'm partial to that 'thunderthump,' myself, though my dictionary says it's just a thunderbolt. But it's obviously a verb here.
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