Moose Javian

English

Etymology

From Moose Jaw +‎ -v- +‎ -ian.

Adjective

Moose Javian (comparative more Moose Javian, superlative most Moose Javian)

1. Of or pertaining to the city of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
   • 1997, William R. Barry, People Places: Saskatchewan and Its Names, Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina, →ISBN, page 46:

     Because the name is so peculiar to non-Moose Javian ears, all kinds of stories about its origin have circulated.

   • 2006, Nick Russell, Morals and the Media, 2nd Edition: Ethics in Canadian Journalism, UBC Press, →ISBN, page 18:

     (To a small extant, the paper competes with the Regina Leader-Post, the Toronto Globe and Mail, and the National Post, but only the Times-Herald covers the fine detail of Moose Javian life.)

   • 2013, Ken Mitchell, “The New Generation: The '70s Remembered”, in David Carpenter, editor, The Literary History of Saskatchewan, Volume 1, Coteau Books, →ISBN, page 185:

     Still others claimed that the unusual Moose Javian culture — its history as “Little Chicago,” a sin city, a raucous industrial town in the agricultural heartland — produced this edgy new “urban” literature.

Noun

Moose Javian (plural Moose Javians)

1. A native or resident of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
   • 1987, Don McLean, Fifty Historical Vignettes: Views of the Common People, Gabriel Dumont Institute, →ISBN, page 198:

     During the last week in June each year a tradition known locally as "sidewalk days" brings this diverse population of Moose Javians together for three days of outdoor shopping on Main Street.

   • 2001, John Larsen, Maurice Richard Libby, Moose Jaw: People, Places, History, Coteau Books, →ISBN, page 31:

     Key Wong, a born-and-raised Moose Javian, recalls his father arrived in Moose Jaw in 1905 as a thirteen-year-old.

   • 2008, Gary Hyland, Love of Mirrors, Coteau Books, →ISBN, page 225:

     I also lingered in the poetry section of the Moose Jaw Public Library where I discovered and delighted in Dante, Yeats, Eliot, Frost, Auden and Wallace Stevens. […] What was a muddle-headed sixteen-year-old Moose Javian to make of "The Idea of Order at Key West" or "The Wasteland"?