DCHP-2
baywop bay wop, Bay Wop DCHP-2 (October 2016)
n. — Newfoundland, derogatory, Urban culture
an inhabitant of a coastal settlement.
Type: 1. Origin — The pejorative term baywop is likely a variant of the dialectal British slang term johnny wop. The DNE (s.v. "bay" (1)) makes reference to the EDD (s.v. "johnny: ~wap"), where "johnny wap" is defined as a simpleton or a fool from the countryside. Newfoundland's southwestern England and southeastern Irish settlement history accounts for the lexical transfer. Any Newfoundlanders from smaller or more isolated villages may thus be negatively referred to as baywops by the "townie" inhabitants of St. John's (see the 1963 & 2006 quotations). See baynoddy for a close parallel term. Chart 1 indirectly confirms the Newfoundland connection within the .ca domain (regional charts were not possible).
See also COD-2, s.v. "baywop", which is marked "Cdn (Nfld) derogatory".
