shandonger
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A native or inhabitant of Shandong, China.
Example Sentences
- "He ridiculed the ignorance of party officials, referring to them disparagingly as "this bunch of Shandongers" and so forth, who "don't know anything but live off the [Communist] party.""
- "We can divide 1.3 billion people into different groups, say, geographically into thirty groups such as Henaners, Hebeiers, Shandongers, Shanxiers, Beijingers."
- "The internal forces, "famine, unrest, and overpopulation [...] summarized the hostile living environment, which trapped most Shandongers in abject poverty"."
- "As I am a Shandonger, notorious for their stubborn northern accent, the comment I often received was 'How come you don't have an accent?'"
Etymology
From Shandong + -er.