"Newfie" is a colloquial, an sometimes pejorative, term used in Canada for someone who is from Newfoundland. The earliest known recording of the term was in 1938 on a local radio programme, The Barrelman, probably as a slightly insulting term for a Newfoundlander. It appears in a 1942 dictionary of slang; at the time, "Newfie" was used as often to refer to Newfoundland itself as to Newfoundlanders (who were also "Newfiers").