Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also Jordie) a Tynesider; thus Geordie-land, Tyneside; also attrib.

1822		‘The News’ in Blackwell’s Mag. Sept. 350/1: I saw the fleet come up the Firth, / Heard Geordie hailed wi’ joyful mirth.
1851		Durham County Advertiser 9 May 2/2: Shields Geordies. The bye-name given by sailors of other English ports to those belonging to the port of Shields.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict. 142: GEORDIE, general term in Northumberland and Durham for a pitman, or coal-miner.
1866		C. Nordhoff Young Man-of-War’s Man 69: The sailors belonging to the ports on the north-eastern coast of England are called Jordies [OED].
1878		S. James Vagabond Papers (5th series) 144: Lancashire, Staffordshire, Welshmen, and ‘Geordies,’ the types were plainly depicted.
1885		Bulletin (Sydney) 22 Aug. 10/4: Thus spake the Rev. S. J. Mitchell, of Melbourne, in a recently delivered lecture to the Newcastle ‘Geordies’.
1894		Truth (Sydney) 10 June 1/8: There were only two left in [the competition] — a big ‘Geordie’ and a stout lump of a Paddy.
1898		Binstead & Wells Pink ’Un and Pelican 21: A party of ‘Geordies’ who had been welshed by the ‘Ironclads’ had overtaken the man of cotton.
1902		W.S. Walker Zealandia’s Guerdon 127: He was a first-class navigator and a regular ‘Geordie’.
1944		N. Mitchison Among You Taking Notes 1 Nov. 299: A bloody geordie from Tyneside.
1956		‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 197: It could be sudden death for a Londoner to be lumbered in a North-country nick with a mob of Geordies.
1958		(con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 171: What’s the matter with fughing Geordie-land? [Ibid.] 175: I’d have messed that Geordie about today.
1962		C. Rohan Delinquents 149: You might have known a Geordie would get you up the spout as quick as look at you.
1973		B.S. Johnson All Bull 214: In a bed opposite me was a Geordie with an accent broad enough to run a motorway down.
1988		Beano Comic Library Special No. 12 2: Every week meet the Jocks and the Geordies.
1991		D. Jarman letter 14 Oct. Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 57: What does it feel like to have a big Geordie lad on top of you?
1993		I. Welsh Trainspotting 302: You used to get Geordies and Scousers and Brummies and Cockneys at the Uni.
1999		Indep. 1 July 5: A young Geordie.
2000		Indep. on Sun. Real Life 23 Jan. 3: The gritty Geordie lad who combines populism with serious respect.
2006		I. Rankin Naming of the Dead (2007) 203: That lot over there are Geordies.

2. (Aus./N.Z.) a Scot.

1910		Bulletin (Sydney) 17 Nov. 14/2: Two Geordies coming off shift at the Hand and Band had neglected to inform Tom Tommie that there was a charge in and a spitting fuse at the face.
1943		J.A.W. Bennett ‘Eng. as it is Spoken in N.Z.’ in AS XVIII:2 Apr. 89: a Scotsman is a Geordie, and an Irishman, as in vulgar American, a Mick.

3. the Tyneside dialect and accent; also attrib.

1958		(con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 218: It’s on account of talking Geordie.
1992		D. Jarman letter 7 Mar. Smiling in Slow Motion (2000) 89: HB and Peter talking Geordie in the back of the car all the way.
1999		K. Sampson Powder 455: His Geordie baritone remaining even.