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