The Collaborative International Dictionary
Southron \South"ron\, n. An inhabitant of the more southern part of a country; formerly, a name given in Scotland to any Englishman.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"inhabitant of the southern part of a country," late 15c., variant (originally Scottish and northern English) of southren (late 14c.), on analogy of Briton, Saxon, from Old English suðerne or Old Norse suðrænn "southern" (see southern). Popularized in English by Jane Porter's enormously popular historical novel "Scottish Chiefs" (1810), and adopted in U.S. by many in the Southern states. She also used it as an adjective. Old English had suðmann "Southman."\n\nBut the moment I heard he was in arms, I grasped at the opportunity of avenging my country, and of trampling on the proud heart of the Southron villain who had dared to inflict disgrace upon the cheek of Roger Kirkpatrick.
["Scottish Chiefs"]
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context archaic English) southern. 2 (context archaic Scotland English) English, from England. n. 1 (context archaic English) A southerner, someone from the south. 2 (context archaic Scotland English) An Englishman. 3 (lb en Scotland uncommon) A Lowlander, a Scottish person from south of the Highlands. 4 (alternative case form of Southron nodot=1 English) (gloss: someone from the Southern US)
Wikipedia
Southron is a term meaning "a person from the south". It is uncommon in modern usage. It was originally used by Scots to refer to the English. Other notable uses are:
- A person from the Southern United States in general
- Historically, a person from the Confederate States of America
- A member of the Haradrim, a human people in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien
- Anyone who lives below "The Neck" in the series A Song of Ice and Fire by author George R.R. Martin
Usage examples of "southron".
Geoffrey plans to send part of your army to Count Joseph the Gamecock, who is gathering forces in Palmetto Province to try to hold off the southrons.
They concentrated on the tall Southrons, beating them back into the lines of the gray men.
His Namerique was good but bookishly old-fashioned, with a singsong Sponglish lilt and a trace of a southron roll to the R's, as if he'd spoken it mainly with Squadron folk.
His Namerique was good but bookishly old-fashioned, with a singsong Sponglish lilt and a trace of a southron roll to the r's, as if he'd spoken it mainly with Squadron folk.
Even the botch from Thraxton the Braggart that had panicked his own men on Proselytizers' Rise was a botch on a scale th e southrons wouldn't have tried to imitate.
Some of the choicer sorceries he'd aimed at the southrons in battles past had unaccountably gone awry, coming down on the heads of his own troops.
The southron soldiers hadn't panicked till that moment, thinking it an illusion similar to those Alva and their other wizards had also used.
He'd been Lieutenant Alva till a few months before, but he was the most potent southron mage Hesmucet had ever found.
The southrons don't have to go through this sort of nonsense when they move their troops from hither to yon, believe you me they don't.
Roaring as if the Lion God had taken possession of them body and soul, they hit the advancing southrons a savage blow that sent them reeling back toward Warsaw in surprise, dismay, and no little disorder.
Even so, only about half the men got breakfast before warning cries from the sentries in the shooting pits out in front of the main line announced that the southrons were indeed coming forth.
Where the Department of History was engaged on a monumental projectnothing less than a compilation of all known source material on the War of Southron Independence!
For another, a troop of southron unicorn-riders trotted past the Army of Franklin's entrenchments right on the edge of catapult range.
His army was more mobile than any the city-dwellers could patch together, and he knew with no false modesty that he surpassed any southron general.
The southrons had closed all the glideway lines into Marthasville, and east of the city those were few and far between.