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New yorkian
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- 1 Of, relating to, or characteristic of, New York.
"There is the Paris sadness, which is that of satiety and reaction, and the Viennese, which is that of Strauss. / There is the Bostonian, which is commercial literary; and the New Yorkian, which is blague commercial—yet no bad spirit withal—and the Philadelphian, which is peculiar in being without a peculiarity, which moveth silently, divineth unutterable things within itself, and behaveth decently,—a very commeil faut sort of sadness! / These are the varieties of sadness, pertaining to each city."
- 1 A native or inhabitant of New York.
"Mr Hollis tells me that Bute has established a Jesuit in a school at Kensington and has sent two of his younger children to be educated by him, and had made Barron … send two of his. He thinks with me that the late Act of Parliament respecting New York most tyrannical and hopes the honest New Yorkians will not submit to it, but will draw their swords in defence of their Liberty."
Etymology
From New York + -ian.
From New York + -ian.
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