Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. pejorative A person who lives at low altitude - used by those living at higher altitudes
- n. physics An inhabitant of or observer in a universe with two spatial dimensions.
Examples
“I grew up as something native Vermonters refer to as a flatlander, a person from New York or New Jersey who visits the state to ski, to hike, to watch the leaves turn in the fall.”
“Everywhere in human space a flatlander is a schnook who never gets above the atmosphere.”
“A lifelong actor and performer, Lorber — a Democrat — got into politics in 2005 when he ran for and won election to a House seat in Burlington, despite being a "flatlander" — or non-native Vermonter.”
“The bartender welcomed me as a "flatlander" which I guess I am, but only by residence, not by spirit.”
“The thing I didn’t know about mountains when I was what my husband rudely calls a flatlander and the rest of the world calls a Midwesterner is that often the valleys between mountain peaks are significantly higher than sea level.”
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“The beleaguering mountains smelled a flatlander when they saw one, and hated me right back.”
“Yes | No | Report from flatlander wrote 32 weeks 4 hours ago”
“Johnson goes on to describe Susskind's conjecture that a holographic principle — may be applicable to the universe; reality compared to an illusory projection akin to the fabled flatlander world.”
“Yes | No | Report from flatlander wrote 33 weeks 5 days ago”
“And I can say from personal experience that stockers, given enough time to adapt, do indeed become something approximating real trout, at least to a flatlander.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘flatlander’.
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Gapeseeds and Muckworms - Compound De...
A list of compound derogatory names such as gapeseed, muckworm and lickspittle. Your one-word contributions to this list are welcome.
See sionnach's list derogatory terms I should use ...gapeseed, muckworm, lickspittle, makeweight, bootlicker, backscratcher, apple-polisher, backslapper, brownnoser, rakeshame, yesman, freeloader and 293 more...
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
brainstorming, upside, downside, goldplating, bikeshedding, mudslinging, downgrading, headhunter, streamlining, mainstreaming, gerrymandering, frontloading and 503 more...
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Massholese
"Everybody says words different,' said Ivy. 'Arkansas folks says 'em different, and Oklahomy folks says 'em different. And we seen a lady from Massachusetts, an' she said 'em different of all. Coul...
pissah, evacuation day, wicked, wicked, carriage, bubbler, patriot's day, frappe, packie, jimmies, so don't i, southie and 18 more...
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Transhumanity
Cribbed from Transhumanist Terminology at aleph.se, which has definitions, and is itself based on the Lextropicon.
adhocracy, aeonomics, a-life, agoric system, ai, ai-complete, aleph, algernon, amortalist, arachniography, arch-anarchy, arcology and 333 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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American Regional Nicknames
yat, knickerbacker, coonass, sooner, badger, cheesehead, hoosier, buckeye, nuyorican, boricua, longhorn, hawkeye and 31 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for flatlander.
john In northern New England this refers to any non-native, but especially to someone from southern New England. Dec 30, 2007