Colloquial Variant guide
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noun
A non-Liverpudlian person who travels to Liverpool, especially to work at the docks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Qualifier: Liverpool slang
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noun
A person from the Merseyside area surrounding Liverpool such as Skelmersdale, Southport, Halton, and the Wirral.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory
Qualifier: Liverpool slang
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noun
Any unsophisticated person from the countryside.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, slang
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noun
A Welsh person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, slang
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noun
A New Zealander.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, slang
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History
The Liverpool Echo suggests two possible origins for the term, both dating back to the early 1900s: * It may be a term for scab workers brought into the city from surrounding towns to manually load and unload ships in the Liverpool docks; unloading ships, the dockers would carry the woollen bales on their backs, leaving wool on their clothes. * It may be a term for men who delivered coal into Liverpool from mines surrounding the city, who wore sheep fleece to protect their backs. Another suggestion is that it could have originated in the Middle Ages from non-resident Welsh and English people trying to avoid the entry fee at the Chester city walls on market day by sneaking in the livestock entrance with a sheep on their back.
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