| Hoo·sier (noun): Used as a nickname for a native or resident of Indiana. The origins of Hoosier are rather obscure, but the most likely possibility is that the term is an alteration of hoozer, an English dialect word recorded in Cumberland, a former county of northwest England, in the late 19th century and used to refer to anything unusually large including "a big, burly, uncouth specimen; an individual; a frontiersman, a countryman". |
