Definition of downhomer

downhomer

noun

• Newfoundlander

  I tell you, that downhomer never stops talking about fishing.

  Last edited on Dec 07 2008. Submitted by Anonymous from Canada on Dec 07 2008.

• any person who is living or has lived in any of Canada's Atlantic provinces

  Last edited on Apr 27 2012. Submitted by Anonymous on Apr 27 2012.

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Other terms relating to 'down':
batten down the hatches	Definitions include: to prepare for hardship.
beat down	Definitions include: a fight or severe beating.
bout to put the beat down	Definitions include: It means having to beat someone up.
bow down	Definitions include: to back down from a situation.
bow down before the porcelain god	Definitions include: to vomit into a toilet.
bow down to the porcelain god	Definitions include: also "bow down to the white porcelain god."
bring down	Definitions include: to sadden one.
bring the house down	Definitions include: to greatly impress a crowd.
broke down	Definitions include: unattractive.
bust down	Definitions include: a person who has oral sex and intercourse with multiple people.
butter down	Definitions include: to knuckle down; to submit to; to melt down; to be unable to take the heat; to give in.
buttoned-down	Definitions include: overly formal, conservative.
chow down	Definitions include: to eat.
come down	Definitions include: to give someone oral sex.
cool down	Definitions include: to stop being angry.
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Other terms relating to 'home':
bring home the bacon	Definitions include: to earn an income.
downhome	Definitions include: Newfoundland
eat (one) out of house and home	Definitions include: as a guest, to eat an excessive amount.
go drunk, you're home	Definitions include: "Go home, you're drunk," as a drunk person might say it.
hit a home run	Definitions include: see home run.
home boy	Definitions include: friend.
home dog	Definitions include: a close friend.
Home is where the horror is	Definitions include: home is where the horror is
Homer	Definitions include: a simple minded person, never cognizant of the world around them; MORON.
home run	Definitions include: In the "sexual contact as baseball achievement" metaphor, means sexual intercourse.
homes	Definitions include: friend.
home skillet	Definitions include: a good friend; "home boy".
home slice	Definitions include: a good friend.
home wrecker	Definitions include: a person who has an affair with a married person.
lights are on but no one's home	Definitions include: alive but brain-dead.
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