New Yorkern.adj.
/ˌnjuː ˈjɔːkə/, U.S. /ˌn(j)u ˈjɔrkər/ A. n.
A native or inhabitant of the state or city of New York.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [noun] > New York
New Yorker1738
Yorker1776
knickerbocker1848
1738 B. Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac 1739 22 When a New-Yorker thinks to say ( this) he shall say ( diss).
1746 Pennsylvania Gaz. 25 Feb. He next Day engaged four of the Ships very smartly under his Lee, during which Time the New Yorkers dropt astern.
1756 G. Washington Let. 5 Aug. in Papers (1984) Colonial Ser. III. 328 The Jerseys and New Yorkers, I do not remember what it is they give.
1798 I. Allen Nat. & Polit. Hist. Vermont 43 The New Yorkers..sent warrants into that county.
1859 G. H. Lewes Let. 6 Sept. in Geo. Eliot Lett. (1954) III. 146 To-day a letter has come from the editor of a ‘Parish Magazine’—and really G. E. was almost more likely to be tempted by that audience than by the New Yorkers.
1884 H. C. Bunner in B. Matthews & H. C. Bunner In Partnership 127 ‘Are you a New Yorker, sir?’ ‘From the north of the State.’
1948 N.Y. Star 30 June 14/3 The Board of Transportation is appealing to New Yorkers to put up patiently with the confusion.
1988 G. Sayer Jack xix. 214 She was an amusingly abrasive New Yorker, and Jack was delighted by her bluntness.
B. adj. (attributive).
Found in or characteristic of the magazine The New Yorker (founded 1925), noted for its urbane and sharply observed view of American life.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > periodical > [adjective] > characteristic of specific periodical
spectatorial1817
Punchine1846
yellow book1895
New Yorker1934
1934 Fortune Aug. 75/1 No advertising man is believed, by the editors, ever to have understood a New Yorker joke.
1948 Cosmopolitan May 175/1 Literary critics and editors of other magazines are always referring to ‘The New Yorker style of writing’.
1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Jan. 4/2 He surveys the established Old Guard.., the new ‘realists’.., the New Yorker School.
1992 New Yorker 3 Feb. 65/1 (advt.) The design is distinguished and very New Yorker: Eustace Tilley-patterned endpapers.
Derivatives
New ˈYorkerish adj. characteristic or reminiscent of a New Yorker or of the magazine The New Yorker.
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1941 N.Y. Times 3 Aug. 5 (advt.) True, there's an exodus come Friday night, but midsummer midweek is still excitingly, thrillingly New Yorkerish.
1945 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 7 Oct. 33/2 Mr. Wilcox's writing..is often New Yorkerish: little gestures are reported so faithfully that they often become the movements of entire lives.
1961 Punch 4 Jan. 81/3 The drawings..[are] well suited to the captions, many of which have a New Yorkerish elliptical quality.
1970 D. L. Emblen Peter Mark Roget xv. 276 Punch in its New Yorkerish way, picking up a slip in some Scottish paper.
2001 Variety 26 Feb. 51/2 Soon he's..showing up at her workplace, a New Yorkerish magazine where she's a busy reporter.
New ˈYorkerism n. an idiom, word, or mode of expression peculiar to, or characteristic of, The New Yorker.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > American English > idiom of
Americanism1781
Yankeeism1820
New Englandism1831
Westernism1836
Canadianism1838
Hoosierism1843
southernism1855
transatlanticism1858
frontierism1890
New Yorkerism1951
1951 Time 22 Oct. 102/2 Many a New Yorkerism (e.g., Cartoonist Carl Rose's ‘I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it’) has become a part of the language.
1967 Economist 3 June 1027/3 If allowance is made for a certain New Yorkerism in style, this is a splendid book about an unforgettable woman.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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