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Maxonian

adj, noun — 2 senses

Maxonian

adj

UK /mæksˈnəʊ.ni.ən/ · US /mæksˈnoʊ.ni.ən/

Etymology Coined to identify a group of alumni of King's School, Macclesfield, at Oxford University as a blend of Macclesfield + Oxonian, which was then applied to residents of the town in general.

1

Of or pertaining to the town of Macclesfield in Cheshire.

  • […] gleeful grins on their faces and arms wrapped around girls of known questionable reputation who no self-respecting Maxonian lad would have touched with a barge pole.2013, Cliff Staniforth, Not All Bad: Memories of a Silk-town Childhood, page 110:
  • An exhibition and play will both examine the Maxonian band's legacy.2015 April 15, Alex Hibbert, “New events in memory of Joy Division's Ian Curtis”, in Macclesfield Express:
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  • We’re delighted to also welcome back New Order’s Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert – both big supporters of Barnaby – on the decks for a special Maxonian session.2016 June 2, Rhiannon McDowall, “Barnaby Bites”, in Macclesfield Express:

Maxonian

noun

Etymology Coined to identify a group of alumni of King's School, Macclesfield, at Oxford University as a blend of Macclesfield + Oxonian, which was then applied to residents of the town in general.

1

A native or inhabitant of Macclesfield.

  • As a fellow Macclesfieldian—or Maxonian as one was inexplicably called—I was fascinated to read the whole factual story of St Peter's Working Men's Institute, whose weekly affairs I used to report, all unknowing, in the days of bicycle clips and wet macs.1967, New Society, volume 9, numbers 236-248, page 892:
  • My thanks to my friends Clifford and Pauline Baillie, true Maxonians both, who helped me with local colour and phrases.1992, Jan Webster, Bluebell Blue, page viii:
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  • One born-and-bred Maxonian, now living around High Street, proffered a cognate observation about the plight of those 'stuck' on Moss Rose2005, Evi Girling, Crime and Social Change in Middle England: Questions of Order in an English Town:

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