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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /mæksˈnəʊ.ni.ən/
• (General American) IPA: /mæksˈnoʊ.ni.ən/
• 韻: -əʊniən

形容詞

Maxonian (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the town of Macclesfield in Cheshire.
   • 2013, Cliff Staniforth, Not All Bad: Memories of a Silk-town Childhood‎, page 110:

     […] 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.

   • 2015 April 15, Alex Hibbert, “New events in memory of Joy Division's Ian Curtis”, in Macclesfield Express‎:

     An exhibition and play will both examine the Maxonian band's legacy.

   • 2016 June 2, Rhiannon McDowall, “Barnaby Bites”, in Macclesfield Express‎:

     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.

名詞

Maxonian (plural Maxonians)

1. A native or inhabitant of Macclesfield.
   • 1967, New Society, volume 9, numbers 236-248, page 892:

     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.

   • 1992, Jan Webster, Bluebell Blue, page viii:

     My thanks to my friends Clifford and Pauline Baillie, true Maxonians both, who helped me with local colour and phrases.

   • 2005, Evi Girling, Crime and Social Change in Middle England: Questions of Order in an English Town‎:

     One born-and-bred Maxonian, now living around High Street, proffered a cognate observation about the plight of those 'stuck' on Moss Rose