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Clydesider|ˈklaɪdsaɪdə(r)|
[f. Clyde side (side n.1 7 a) + -er1.]
A dweller on a bank of the river Clyde in Scotland; spec. applied to that group of the Labour Party and Independent Labour Party which was associated with Glasgow and the neighbouring industrial area.
1921Glasgow Herald 7 Apr. 7 There does not appear to be much to interest the Clydesider in the news that the Norwegian four-masted barque Svartskog is long overdue. 1926Ibid. 2 Apr. 9 Even the versatile loquacity of half a dozen of the more combative Clydesiders failed to spin things out till the hour appointed for dispersal. 1930Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Feb., In that valley the Clydesiders were born with memories of the martyrs Muir and Palmer. 1965A. J. P. Taylor Eng. Hist. 1914–45 vi. 198 There were combative working-class socialists of the I.L.P., particularly from Glasgow. These Clydesiders, as they were called, won twenty-one out of twenty-eight seats in their region [in 1922]. |
