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hyperborean
(Greek mythology) One of a race of people living in the extreme north, beyond the north wind.
(usually humorous) Any person living in a northern country, or to the north.
Pertaining to the extreme north of the earth, or (usually jocular) to a specific northern country or area.
💬 Quotations
You could have knelt down, damn it, Kinch, when your dying mother asked you, Buck Mulligan said. I’m hyperborean as much as you. But to think of your mother begging you with her last breath to kneel down and pray for her. And you refused.
As when enclosing harpooners assail / In Hyperborean seas the slumb’ring whale, / Soon as their javelins pierce his scaly side, / He groans, he darts impetuous down the tide;