st john's n
2 Comb st john's (dog), ~ man: native of the city.
1883 HATTON & HARVEY 232 It is now generally admitted that there are two distinct types of the Newfoundland dog, one considerably larger than the other, and reckoned as the true breed; the other being named the Labrador, or St John's, or Lesser Newfoundland. The latter is chiefly found in Labrador, and specimens are also to be met with in Newfoundland. [1956] 1988 RUSSELL (ed Miller) 16 'Uncle Bobby figgered he was listenin' to a crowd of St John's men repairin' a cod trap.' 1988 Nfld Qtly lxxxiii (4), 41 The display of the gas mask (invented by a St John's man) says so much more about the First World War than do other pictures of plaques and memorials.
