windrusher means A member of the Windrush generation. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 100 out of 100.
Why “windrusher” is a great word
WINDRUSHER — [Noun] A member of the Windrush generation, the people who emigrated from the Caribbean to the United Kingdom between 1948 and 1971. From Windrush (the name of the ship HMT Empire Windrush, which brought one of the first large groups of post-war Caribbean migrants to the UK in 1948) + the agent-noun suffix -er. Unlike “immigrant,” a general term lacking historical resonance, or “Commonwealth citizen,” a sterile legal classification, “Windrusher” carries the full freight of a shared passage and a promised belonging that would be both granted and contested. It is the determined click of a suitcase latch in Kingston, the sharp chill of the Tilbury docks, and the sound of a steel pan melody adapting itself to the rhythm of a London rain—a name born of a ship that came to signify a foundational, and profoundly contested, chapter of a nation’s life.
Etymology
From Windrush + -er.
noun
- A member of the Windrush generation.