Emmet (alt spellings emmit or emit) is a pejorative
nickname that some
Cornish people use to refer to the non-Cornish. It originally referred to
tourists who visit
Cornwall but has also been used by native Cornish Folk to refer to "incomers" or residents who have moved to the county but were not born there. The related terms
Overner and
Overlander are used on the
Isle of Wight to refer to outsiders from the mainland, who are viewed with similar levels of suspicion.