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  • noun Someone from Guernsey; a Guernsey native or inhabitant.

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Examples

  • Dotrice (whom you might recognize from his appearances in such notable TV shows as The A-Team, Beauty and the Beast, and — my favorite — Shelly Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre) is the perfect mash-up of old-time LA character actor and Guernseyman, if you can imagine such a thing — Caw dammee, eh!

    "Sarnia Chérie, ma chière patrie" 2007

  • A fellow Guernseyman, the late Percy Miller, a C.I.D. officer jailed for possessing a radio set, found the number of deaths and executions in the prison at Frankfurt averaged 35 each week.

    England Under Hitler Clarke, Comer 1961

  • This old man gloried in being a true Guernseyman, one of the old stock, of direct descent from those who fought for their country against the band of adventurers who invaded the island under Ivan of

    The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story John Roussel

  • As a Guernseyman, he might well be as much French as English.

    My Life as an Author Tupper, Martin F 1886

  • It gave me great pleasure as a Guernseyman to have been chiefly accessory to a duplicate in bronze of the Good Prince's statue by Durham being set up at the Pierhead of St. Peter's Port.

    My Life as an Author Tupper, Martin F 1886

  • "What in the devil's name do you want here?" roared the Guernseyman, flying into a sudden passion.

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • "What in the devil's name do you want here?" roared the Guernseyman, flying into a sudden passion.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • This skiff may have plied between the land and that Guernseyman, for any thing I know to the contrary; but it is not

    The Red Rover James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • The British selectors are due to make public their choices today, but the Guernseyman is confident of being among six chosen for the event in Barcelona at the end of May.

    This Is Guernsey newsroom 2010

  • Aldershot's 18-year-old Jonny Hay outkicked the Guernseyman in the final quarter-mile approaching the Port Soif finishing line, but by then Merrien was feeling the effects of having completed almost an equally fast 10k 'tempo' run in the immediate build-up to the first of the weekend's four Easter races which have again attracted a big entry from the UK.

    This Is Guernsey newsroom 2010

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