New Englandn.

Brit.

/ˌnjuː ˈɪŋɡlənd/, U.S.

/ˌn(j)u ˈɪŋ(ɡ)l(ə)n(d)/

Forms: 1600s 1800s new England, 1600s–1800s New-England, 1600s– New England.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name New England.

Etymology: < New England, the name of an area of North America (named by Captain John Smith in 1616; < new adj. + the name of England : see England n.), now regarded as comprising the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut in the north-eastern U.S.The graphic abbreviation N. England also occurs in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.

I. Compounds.

1. General attributive. Designating things or persons native to, associated with, or characteristic of New England.

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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [adjective] > U.S.A. > New England

New English1632

New England1638

Novanglian1679

down east1825

New Englandish1855

New Englandy1861

the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > American English > varieties of

Midland1785

New England1839

Chicagoese1883

Bostonese1888

New Yorkese1888

Brooklynese1893

Western American1901

Manhattanese1908

Harlemese1928

southern1935

jive1938

Yinglish1951

lockjaw1965

Valley Girl1982

Valspeak1982

Valleyspeak1983

Yat1984

1638 J. Underhill Hist. Pequot War in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1837) 3rd Ser. VI. 5 Let the clamor be quenched.., that New England men usurp over their wives.

1655 in Suffolk Deeds (Suffolk County, Mass.) (1883) II. 166 Thirty quintalls he receiued..was New England fish.

1709 W. Byrd Secret Diary (1941) 13 Parson Ware sent to me for a pint of canary, he being sick of the gripes with the New England rum.

1715 S. Sewall Diary (1882) III. 56 Gave Mr. Short's daughter a New-England shilling.

1839 Southern Literary Messenger 5 112/2 Noah Webster..will ere long succeed in giving us a New England tongue which shall not be intelligible in Britain.

1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables x In order to impart the Hymettus odor to their whole hive of New England honey.

1897 New Eng. Mag. Jan. 626/2 New England rum, whose virtues and comparative harmlessness are still asserted by the men who drank and live at ripe old ages to tell the story.

1905 R. Fry Let. Jan. (1972) I. 228 The Philadelphia Quakeress..said ‘You know I can't bear it because I've got a New England conscience.’

1975 P. Organ House on Cheyne Walk v. 31 We could stand a little New England uprightness here. One tires of the bohemian life.

1997 N. DeMille Plum Island xxvii. 367 A sort of exurban street of neat New England clapboards set on good-sized pieces of land.

a. New England aster n. a Michaelmas daisy, Aster novae-angliae, of central and north-eastern North America, which usually has violet-blue flowers.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > other composite flowers

ox-eyea1400

starwort?a1450

Jupiter's beard1567

goldenrod1568

achillea1597

blue camomile1597

blue daisy1597

cineraria1597

hog's bean1597

jackanapes on horseback1597

sea-starwort1597

sultan flower1629

mouse-ear1696

aster1706

Canada goldenrod1731

ageratum1737

rudbeckia1751

coreopsis1753

melampodium1754

Aaron's rod1760

zinnia1761

Michaelmas daisy1767

China aster1785

New England aster1785

catananche1798

sea-aster1812

cosmea1813

cosmos1813

gazania1813

erigeron1815

gousblom1822

Christmas daisy1829

rhodanthe1834

tassel-flower1836

ligularia1839

old maid1839

mountain daisy1848

purple coneflower1848

acroclinium1852

sea ox-eye1856

thimble-weed1860

helipterum1862

treasure-flower1866

Swan River daisy1873

blanket flower1879

cone-flower1879

blue marguerite1882

Solidago1883

yellow-top1887

Gaillardia1888

gerbera1889

youth and old age1889

pussytoes1892

niggerhead1893

Transvaal daisy1899

Barberton daisy1906

onion grass1909

ursinia1928

Cupid's dart1930

Livingstone daisy1932

1785 M. Cutler in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1 482 Aster, New England Aster. Florets in the circumference purple; in the center yellow.

1814 J. Bigelow Florula Bostoniensis 199 Aster Novæ Angliæ. New England aster... A tall, and very beautiful plant. Stem three feet high, brown, very hairy.

1995 C. Brickell Garden Plants 120/1 Aster novae-angliae, the New England Aster, like Aster novii-belgii originating from eastern North America,..is as easy to grow and remains unaffected by powdery mildew.

b. New England theology n. now historical a movement in American Protestantism, based on the writings of Jonathan Edwards (1703–58), Congregational minister, and combining orthodox Calvinist doctrine with a reasoned support for evangelical revivalism.

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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Presbyterianism > Presbyterian sects and groups > [noun] > Congregationalist > American

Church of Christa1500

New England theology1839

1839 Biblical Repertory Jan. 38 In what we shall cursorily remark concerning New England theology, we explicitly premise that we do not intend our Congregational brethren indiscriminately, but a defined portion of them.

1849 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) 7 619 Since the publication of Edwards on the Will, nothing on the same subject..could be regarded as adding any thing to the reasoning of the Northampton pastor, the pride and idol of New England theology.

1967 D. T. Kauffman Dict. Relig. Terms 329/1 New England theology, term for the movement in New England in the latter part of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century to tie Calvinism to human reason and experience.

1992 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 79 627/2 The intellectual traditions that would take him out of Albany to Holland, to Edinburgh, and to the evolving structure of New England theology.

c. New England mayflower n. trailing arbutus, Epigaea repens.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > non-British climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > North American

woodbine1624

Virginia vine1629

staff-tree1633

Virginia creeper?1703

climbing vine1760

mayflower1778

pepper vine1783

arbutus1785

trailing arbutus1785

pipe vine1803

Ampelopsis1805

ground-laurel1814

waxwork1818

ivory plum1828

fever twig1830

yerba buena1847

mountain pink1850

New England mayflower1855

creeping snowberry1856

Virginian creeper1856

May blossom1871

sand verbena1880

staff-vine1884

1855 Harvard Mag. 1 232 Most admired of our spring flowers is the Ground Laurel, Epigæa repens, commonly called Trailing Arbutus, or New England Mayflower.

1859 Harper's Mag. Aug. 367 Every year there came to her, very early in the spring, a little box holding the long, delicate clusters of the New England mayflower.

1952 A. G. L. Hellyer Sanders' Encycl. Gardening (ed. 22) 178 ‘American Ground Laurel’, ‘New England Mayflower’, ‘Trailing Arbutus’, white, fragrant.

d. New England boiled dinner n. U.S. a dish comprising root vegetables and corned or salt beef boiled together.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > boiled meat

soddena1400

sod1548

bouilli1664

boiled1804

trembling beef1806

New England boiled dinner1888

1888 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 25 Mar. 7/2 By this time the beets, turnips, carrots, cabbages, etc., are matured enough for the old-fashioned New-England boiled dinner that is so keenly relished by a hungry farmer.

1936 F. M. Farmer Boston Cooking-School Cook Bk. (new ed.) 277 New England boiled dinner. Served warm, unpressed corned beef with cabbage, beets, turnips, carrots, and potatoes.

1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 June 703/2 We have a New England boiled dinner as well as pot-au-feu.

†II. Simple uses.

3. New England rum. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > rum > [noun] > kinds of rum

Jamaica1775

white rum1816

New England1827

black jack1863

dark rum1864

black rum1872

light rum1872

Nelson's blood1905

Bacardi1921

pinga1928

navy1946

screech1946

anejo1983

1827 J. Howe Jrnl. 12 I told him I would take some New England and molasses.

c1887 in Amer. Speech (1948) 23 114/1 Not dreaming of invading Belfast, only to get their ‘runlets’ filled with ‘New England’.

Derivatives

New ˈEnglandize v. transitive to imbue (a place or thing) with a New England character.

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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > America > North America > [verb (transitive)] > New England

New Englandize1883

1883 T. Silloway & L. Powers Cathedral Towns Eng. 332 New-Englandize it [sc. Ireland], and the Irish millennium would come.

1999 Washington Post (Nexis) 18 Apr. g8 When the Civil War was over, Americans began, by unspoken consensus, to New Englandize their past.

New ˈEnglandy adj. colloquial reminiscent or suggestive of New England.

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