Amishperson

Noun

Amishperson (plural Amishpersons or Amishpeople)

1. (rare) A member of the Amish.
   • Sure, a few buggies pull off the road and let drivers pass, but most show no courtesy and keep crawling on their merry little way. The Amish should stay home, get a ride from someone who drives, or learn to drive themselves. Come on all you Amishpeople out there, give the rest of us a break!1984 February 18, Brian Resh, “He Would Ban All Amish Buggies”, in Lancaster New Era, 106th year, number 33,492, Lancaster, Pa., page 8
   • While her writer’s awareness seems almost always conscious, her reader’s knowledge most often seems to operate implicitly, allowing Anna, as a good Amishperson, to posit meaning in the text.[…]I knew from the courses I had taken, the reading I had done, and the conversations I had had with faculty...1988, Andrea Fishman, Amish Literacy: What and How It Means, Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, →ISBN, pages 37 (The Family at Home) and 208 (Getting Here from There: A Look Back at the Ethnographic...