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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Geordie \Geor"die\, n.
A name given by miners to George Stephenson's safety lamp.
--Raymond.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Scottish and northern dialectal diminutive of masc. proper name George.
Wikipedia
Geordie is both a regional nickname for a person from the larger Tyneside region of North East England and the name of the Northern English dialect spoken by its inhabitants. The term is associated with Tyneside, south Northumberland and northern parts of County Durham.
In many respects, Geordie speech is a direct continuation and development of the language spoken by the Anglo-Saxon settlers of this region. They were initially mercenaries employed by the ancient Brythons to fight the Pictish invaders after the end of Roman rule in Britannia in the 5th century. The Angles, Saxons and Jutes who arrived became over time ascendant politically and culturally over the native British through subsequent migration from tribal homelands along the North Sea coast of the German Bight. The Anglo-Saxon kingdoms that emerged during the Dark Ages spoke largely mutually intelligible varieties of what is now called Old English, each varying somewhat in phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon. This linguistic conservatism can be seen today to the extent that poems by the Anglo-Saxon scholar the Venerable Bede translate more successfully into Geordie than into present-day Standard English. Thus in Northern England and the Scottish borders, then dominated by the kingdom of Northumbria, was found a distinct " Northumbrian" Old English dialect. Later Irish (who, while relatively small in numbers, influenced Geordie phonology from the early 19th century onwards) and Scottish admixture influenced the dialect. In more recent years (20th century to present), the North East area has seen migrants from the rest of the world as well.
In recent times, "Geordie" has been used to refer to a supporter of Newcastle United, despite many Geordies supporting other local teams, and the Newcastle Brown Ale schooner glassware used to serve beer in the United States.
The Geordie dialect and self-identification as a Geordie are primarily associated with those of a working-class background. In a 2008 newspaper survey, the Geordie accent was found to be the "most attractive in England".
Geordie (, JOR-dee) were a British rock band from Newcastle upon Tyne, England, most notably active in the 1970s.
Geordie most famously refers to a person from the Tyneside region of England, or the dialect spoken by such a person. It is a diminutive of the name George, Geordie is commonly found as a forename in the North-East of England and Southern Scotland.
Geordie may refer to:
- Geordie (ballad), a Child ballad, and the name of a character in it
- Geordie (band), a 1970s British glam rock band
- Geordie (film), a 1955 British film
- George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk
- "Geordie", nickname of footballer George Best
- "Geordie", nickname of Killing Joke guitarist Kevin "Geordie" Walker
- Geordie, a nickname for Newcastle United F.C.
- Geordi La Forge, a Star Trek: The Next Generation character played by LeVar Burton
- "Geordie", a mocking nickname for George I of Great Britain, in the folksong '' Cam Ye O'er Frae France'
- "Geordie", song by Gabry Ponte
"Geordie" is Child ballad 209 ( Roud 90), existing in many variants.
Geordie (released in the United States. as Wee Geordie) is a 1955 British film directed and co-produced by Frank Launder, with Bill Travers in the title role as a Scotsman who becomes an athlete and competes at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.
The film is based on David Walker's 1950 novel of the same title, adapted for the screen by Launder and his co-producer Sidney Gilliat.
Usage examples of "geordie".
As I sat down in a student desk the police had commandeered more classrooms I nodded amiably at her attendant constable, a Geordie whose hair was the colour of the flashing part of a Belisha beacon.
They were all down: the Liverpudlians, the Geordies, the Birmingham boys, even the fucking Scots.
Holly and Geordie come through it, along with a tall woman dressed like a skateboarder with a little twig girl by her side.
But whether it, was Master Tom or Sir Stoneface who was wrong, Geordie did not know.
By good fortune, to save them both, Geordie came down the companionway, his long face glummer than ever.
Catherine stepped forward, just as Geordie reappeared, looking glummer than ever.
It struck her that, unlike many men with their servants, he was never actu ally unkind to Geordie.
He did not tell him that he had turned Geordie away and kept the purse that Stair had left for them-nor that, through a bribed clerk in Breda, Stair's letters to Catherine were stolen and destroyed.
And won’t it make Gabriel keckle when Geordie comes pantin’ ut the grees with the tompstean balanced on his hump, and asks to be took as evidence!
Geordie told me that after one retailer talked to him and redesigned their stores, gross sales climbed sixty-one percent.
Willie McNab, Bobby McNab, Geordie McNab… thank God, young Rabbie McNab was safe, left at home… Will Fraser, Ewan Fraser, Geoffrey McClure… McClure… had he touched on both George and Sorley?
Mason is content for the moment simply to sit, inside The Jolly Pitman and a Carousing of Geordies, feeling settled, quietly plumb, seeing against the neutral gray of the smoke all the sun-flashes from the Day, the clear slacks, the sand bottoms, the nettles and rose bay willow-herb, the sudden streak of light as the most gigantic Carp he'd ever run across in his life, keeled, what in legend will be recalled as but inches from his foot.
How'd a Geordie Land-Surveyor get to be his Second on the most coveted Star-gazing Assignment of the Century?
Nick placidly agreed, and darkness had long fallen, and a great many buns been consumed, when at length the procession turned down the street toward the pension, headed by Nick with the sleeping Geordie on his shoulder, while the others, speechless with fatigue and food, hung heavily on Susy.