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Britishry
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English
Etymology
From en British -ry.
Noun
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British attitudes and behaviours.
en Ernest E. Williams Our Christmas Plum-Puddings w:The Windsor Magazine London w:Ward, Lock & Company, Limited May 1898 VII https://archive.org/details/acd6136.0007.001.umich.edu/page/64/mode/1up 1 1064999527 There is no more genuine Britishry in him than there is in the Anglo-maniac dude who turns up his trousers in New York because it is raining in London, you know.
en w:Donald Horne Who Rules Australia? Daedalus Cambridge, M.A. w:American Academy of Arts and Sciences Winter 1985 114 1 175 https://archive.org/details/sim_daedalus_winter-1985_114_1/page/175/mode/1up 0011-5266 20024959 1565785 belief in Parliament is commensurate with general Britishry since in all kinds of details (although not in essentials), the Australian system has many similarities with the British
en w:Anthony Burgess w:Little Wilson and Big God New York, N.Y. w:Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1986 193 https://archive.org/details/littlewilsonbigg0000burg_g3w8/page/193/mode/1up 1-555-84100-7 But there had been a good deal of the shiftless Irish in him, a love of drink and empty conviviality, balanced by accessions of ramrod Britishry, hair well trimmed, shoes well polished.
en Ed Wright History's Greatest Scandals: Shocking Stories of Powerful People Millers Point, NSW Pier 9 2006 212 https://archive.org/details/historysgreatest0000wrig/page/212/mode/1up 978-1-740-45809-2 Australia, due to the economic destruction of Britain during World War II, had begun to see its future within the American orbit. Even Prime Minister Robert Menzies swallowed his Britishry and adapted Australia's foreign policy accordingly.
British people, collectively.
en W[illiam] Howard Russell Canada: Its Defenses, Condition, and Resources London Bradbury and Evans 1865 149 https://archive.org/details/canadaitsdefense00russ/page/149/mode/1up The fair Canadians may have been too kind in accepting the name and position of "muffins" from the young Britishry; but the latter cannot say they have suffered much in consequence. A muffin is simply a lady who sits beside the male occupant of the sleigh—Sola cum solo, "and all the rest is leather and prunella."
3 VI viii 281 Till Britishry and Bonapartists lose / Their clashing colours for the tawny hues / That twilight sets on all its stealing tinct imbues.
en w:Jan Morris Hong Kong New York, N.Y. w:Random House 1988 96 https://archive.org/details/hongkong00morr/page/96/mode/1up 0-394-55097-8 Below them economically in the ranks of Hong Kong Britishry is a much larger class of the less plutocratic bourgeoisie, business executives, brokers, advertising men and women, lawyers, doctors, academics, journalists.