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- noun A resident or person born in the state of
Kentucky .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"The average Kentuckian is having the usual difficulties of our pocketbooks taking us one way and our values taking us another way," Voss says.
Kentucky doesn't just fall left or right on political scale 2008
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The native Kentuckian is the youngest GM to win a World Series, and that was two years ago.
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Mississippi, and a parfect pictur of a wappin 'big man called Kentuckian there.
The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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Mississippi, and a parfect pictur of a wappin 'big man called Kentuckian there.
The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Volume 01 Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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I told him that I was very well acquainted in some parts of Michigan, that I had been in Canada and that a great many people there called me a "Kentuckian;" and I didn't know as it mattered what I was called so long as I was able to pay him for his cattle.
The Bark Covered House William Nowlin 1852
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He said: "Heaps of colored people" thought I was a "Kentuckian;" they said, I looked like one and that my team and carriage looked like a Kentucky rig.
The Bark Covered House William Nowlin 1852
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His fellow Republicans ignored him and were about to let his expire, but fellow Kentuckian Mitch McConnell realized they needed him to maintain his hold on the bill if they were to keep up their obstructionist agenda without anyone useful getting blamed for it.
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McConnell is the one that should be catching hell, tell him to get his fellow Kentuckian under control.
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I think he's bringing to Washington a lot of lonely nights in the sense that he's not going to make that many friends in the Senate right away because he is going to be a passionate advocate for the things he believes in and, by and large, they will not be the things that even his fellow Kentuckian, Mitch McConnell, believes in.
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Senate and will either be a key ally of his fellow Kentuckian, Mitch McConnell, or McConnell's worst nightmare.
What Happens Next? The Complex Post-Election Landscape The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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