Meaning of Westie | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A West Highland White Terrier.
   informal
2. An inhabitant of the western suburbs of a city or town, stereotyped as of working class status and poor.
   Australia, derogatory, slang
3. An inhabitant of the western suburbs of Sydney or Melbourne.
   Australia, derogatory, slang
4. An inhabitant of the western suburbs of Auckland.
   New-Zealand, derogatory, slang
5. An intense fan of the Christian singer Matthew West.
   slang
6. A member of a criminal gang based in Hell's Kitchen on the west side of Manhattan.
   US
7. A member of the Royal Westminster Regiment.
   slang

Equivalents

Examples

“Pet owners often trim their Westies with clippers and scissors to save expense.”

“A Westie fancier, Colonel Edward Malcolm, is said to have had a reddish-colored dog who was shot by hunters who mistook the dog for a fox.”

“Westies may be small in stature but they have huge personalities.”

“Take, for example, Sydney′s Westies, the inhabitants of the city′s much-maligned western suburbs.”

“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.”

“Mark Latham had developed a reputation as something of a bovver boy Sydney Westie.”

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The Westies in the crowd went wild when Matthew took the stage and sang Happy.”

“Another killing was sparked when Tommy Hess, the bartender at Club 596, on Tenth Avenue, slapped the girl friend of a young Westie.[…]Hess went on a list of some 60 homicides police say were committed by the Westies.”

“The Intrepid skim allegedly went from the union to a West Side gang of Irish toughs known as the Westies. (In an unrelated incident, several Westies are currently on trial for kidnapping, loan-sharking, extortion and murder.[…])”

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