[f. YORK sb. + -ER1.]
1. An inhabitant of York or Yorkshire; applied allusively (cf. YORKSHIRE 2).
1599. Buttes, Diets Dry Dinner, Ep. Ded. A a j b. As for the Middle-sex or Londoner, I smell his Diet … Here is a Pipe of right Trinidado for him. The Yorkers they will bee content with bald Tabacodocko. What should I say? here is good Veale for the Essex-man.
1673. Kirkman, Unlucky Citizen, 158. She was a right Yorker, being of that Countrey breed, and as full of dissimulation and hipocrisy as most of that Countrey.
1847. H. Miller, First Impr., xiii. 232. The Yorkers contend that their organ is not only the greater, but also the finer organ of the two; whereas the Birminghamers assert, on the contrary, that theirs … plays vastly better.
1849. H. W. Herbert, Frank Forester, I. 75. Here’s Archer, and another Yorker with him—leastwise an Englisher I should say:
2. An inhabitant or a soldier of New York.
1776. Abigail Adams, in Fam. Lett. (1876), 229. We are told for truth that a regiment of Yorkers refused to quit the city.
1876. Bancroft, Hist. U. S., V. xxii. 587. Sir John Johnson and some part of his royal Yorkers.
1883. H. Tuttle, in Harper’s Mag., Nov., 821/1. The settlers in the disputed tract hated, indeed, the ‘Yorkers.’
