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improved Britisher Jocular

• n. an immigrant from the British Isles, especially an Englishman, who has been in Canada long enough to have lost some of his native shortcomings.

  See also: improved Scotsman  

  • This term is still heard although it seldom appears in print.

  • 1913  A person born in the Old Country, but of long residence in Canada.