Down-easter n.
(US)1. a ‘Yankee’, i.e. an inhabitant or native of the northeastern states; thus down-east adj.
 | Retrosp. 37: This curious class of mammalia, the ‘Down-Easter’ as it is often called. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Georgia Scenes (1848) 180: During the races a ‘Down Easter’ had been exhibiting wax figures. | |
| Adventures of Capt. Bonneville II 37: This was a party of regular ‘down-easters’, that is to say, people of New England. | |
| Polyanthos (NY) 9 June n.p.: The ‘down east’ women are the most handsome of American ladies. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Leeds Times 3 Oct. 7/5: A down-easter recently came to New York, and took lodgings for the night. | |
| Joliet Signal (Joliet, IL) 18 Jan. 1/2: ‘You eternal cuss!’ roared the Down-Easter. | |
| (con. 1843) White-Jacket (1990) 132: One clear, cold morning, while we were yet running away from the Cape, a raw-boned, crack-pared Down-Easter belonging to the waist, made his appearance at the mast. | |
| Nature and Human Nature I 23: Yes, let my talk remain ‘down-east’ talk. | |
| City of the Saints 99: The beauty was married to a long, lean Down-Easter. | |
| Bloomfield Times (PA) 6 Sept. 7/5: A down Easter was interrogated. ‘I want you [...] to give me a straight forward answer to a plain question’. | |
| Sportsman (London) ‘Notes on News’ 19 Apr. 4/1: ‘This great lecturer [...]’ so said a ‘down east’ journal regarding Artemusd Ward. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bulletin (Sydney) 23 Oct. 12/3: A down-east circus has a cannibal among its attractions. | |
| Journal of Solomon Sidesplitter 7: An ingenious down-easter. | |
| Shellback 127: He was [...] a regular ‘down Easter,’ from Connecticut. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 10 Feb. 24/2: Tweedie, whose 12 months in Yankeedom have converted him into an out-and-out down-easter, gets back with the statement that Gaffney has ‘cold feet,’ [...] and would sooner creep into a rat-hole and starve than fight. | |
| Rigby’s Romance (1921) Ch. iii: 🌐 When I first knew him he seemed such an ideal Down-Easter. | |
| Cappy Ricks 25: He’s a Down-Easter, I see. | |
| Herald & News (Newberry, SC) 28 Mar. 5/1: A tall Down-Easter [...] asked, ‘Can you tell me, Sir, what state we are in?’. | |
| Bully Hayes 18: He was no hazing, heavy-fisted, knuckle-duster bucko of the Down-East and Blue Nose type. | |
| Shanties from the Seven Seas 593: Down Easter. By Britishers, ships and men hailing from the Eastern American ports [...] but the term really meant those from Maine only. | |
| Going After Cacciato (1980) 138: The Downeast Brother, the dude with lobster on his breath. |
2. an inhabitant or native of Maine.
| N.Y. Daily Express 24 Jan. 2/5: Henry Childs, black, and Henry McGrath, a couple of market swells, were brought up yesterday, charged with walking into a Down-easter to the amount of $20. | |
| Sam Slick’s Wise Saws I 21: An awful large seven-foot down-easter. | |
| Cappy Ricks 132: He had all of a Down-Easter’s love for a sailing ship. |
3. (Aus.) used of Eastern Australia.
| Coburg Leader (Vic.) 6 July 1/7: Joe, the down East bookie is very quiet. |