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Michigander

[ˈmɪ.ʃəˌɡæn.dɚ]noun

Michigander is a noun meaning “A native or resident of the state of Michigan in the United States of America” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-I-C-H-I-G-A-N-D-E-R, and it appears about once in every 37 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Michigander is Michiganders.

What does Michigander mean?

noun

  1. 1

    USA native or resident of the state of Michigan in the United States of America.

  2. 2

    In particular, a man from Michigan, contrasted with a Michigoose (“woman from Michigan”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce Michigander?

  • [ˈmɪ.ʃəˌɡæn.dɚ]

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of Michigander

  • Michiganders plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is Michigander?

Michigander appears about once in every 37 million words in written English, the 187,122nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does Michigander come from?

] Attributed to Abraham Lincoln, in a speech of July 27, 1848, as pejorative reference to Lewis Cass, Michigan politician: : There is one entire article of the sort I have not discussed yet; I mean the military tale you Democrats are now engaged in dovetailing onto the great Michigander. Ostensibly coined as a blend of Michigan + gander (“male goose, simpleton”) (punning on “tale” and “(dove)tail(ing)”). Alternatively from and/or later reanalyzed as Michigan + -d- (epenthetic) + -er (“resident of”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).