• westie
• westies

westie (suomeksi)

• Sana perusmuodossa: Westie
Määritelmät:

• (lb, en, informal) A w:West Highland White Terrier, West Highland White Terrier.
• (lb, en, slang, derogatory) An inhabitant of the western suburbs of a city or town, stereotyped as of working class status and poor.
• (lb, en, Australia) An inhabitant of the western suburbs of Sydney.
• * '''1995''', Barry Lowe, ''Media Mythologies'', [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=kHb_VlCXDkwC&pg=PA150&dq=%22westie%22%7C%22westies%22+australia&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fWa3UIS2FMfDmQWAoIDgAw&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22westie%22%7C%22westies%22%20australia&f=false page 150],
• *: Take, for example, Sydney′s '''Westies''', the inhabitants of the city′s much-maligned western suburbs.
• * '''2001''', Eugène Van Erven, ''Community Theatre: Global Perspectives'', [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2AsMVGyrC-kC&pg=PA208&dq=%22westie%22%7C%22westies%22+australia&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wHO3UIzhEMzMmgXbpIG4BQ&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22westie%22%7C%22westies%22%20australia&f=false page 208],
• *: Being called a ‘'''Westie'''’ was (and is) regarded as an insult, although some '''Westies''' have now begun to proudly embrace the rich cultural identity the label also signifies.
• * '''2004''', Brian Carroll, ''Australia′s Prime Ministers: From Barton to Howard'', [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=W8PUBuw4idYC&pg=PA313&dq=%22westie%22%7C%22westies%22+australia&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wHO3UIzhEMzMmgXbpIG4BQ&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22westie%22%7C%22westies%22%20australia&f=false page 313],
• *: Mark Latham had developed a reputation as something of a bovver boy Sydney '''Westie'''.
• (lb, en, New Zealand) An inhabitant of the western suburbs of Auckland.
• : ''For Aucklanders who know what it means, this person is a '''Westie'''.'' — [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.sysadmin.recovery/msg/66ad493f6f24113d]
• : ''At least Bobs claims he's a '''Westie''' and he hasn't moved there as a social reject.'' — [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.sport.rugby.union/msg/9ad2d5146251ef6a]
• * '''2005''', Gareth Shute, ''Making Music in New Zealand'', [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=QJmfAAAAMAAJ&q=%22westie%22%7C%22westies%22+zealand&dq=%22westie%22%7C%22westies%22+zealand&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Qny3ULyDHsKdmQXjsoDwBg&redir_esc=y page 16],
• *: He started singing for us ... and by then we were over the whole '''Westie''' party scene because it was too violent and agro and too many munters.
• * '''2011''', Trisha Dunleavy, Hester Joyce, ''New Zealand Film and Television: Institution, Industry and Cultural Change'', [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=-QjgclGkfVMC&pg=PA199&dq=%22westie%22%7C%22westies%22+zealand&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Qny3ULyDHsKdmQXjsoDwBg&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22westie%22%7C%22westies%22%20zealand&f=false page 199],
• *: Yet naming the family ‘West’ and locating them in working-class West Auckland marks Cheryl and her brood out as a family of ‘'''Westies'''’, this colloquial New Zealand term denoting an urban sub-culture mythologised as much for its rejection of middle-class aspirations and cultural capital as for its considered enjoyment of drinking, swearing, fighting and sex. Important to the universal appeal of ''Outrageous Fortune'' in New Zealand, however, is that contemporary ‘'''Westie'''’ culture is by no means confined to Auckland, with versions of it existing in proximate milieux throughout New Zealand.
• * '''2012''', Tim Shadbolt, ''A Mayor of Two Cities'', [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=p8q8knfM0DcC&pg=PT94&dq=%22westie%22%7C%22westies%22+zealand&hl=en&sa=X&ei=woS3UIKVBoHUmAX-vYGoBg&redir_esc=y unnumbered page],
• *: Around our '''westie''' bonfire, we all toasted our success. A large old television had been set up on the back porch and all the evening's results poured in from cities and districts all over New Zealand.
• (lb, en, slang, Contemporary Christian) An intense fan of the Christian singer w:Matthew West, Matthew West.
• (lb, en, US) A member of a criminal gang based in Hell's Kitchen on the west side of Manhattan.