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单词 bowery
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boweryn.

Brit. /ˈbaʊəri/, U.S. /ˈbaʊ(ə)ri/
Etymology: < Dutch bouwerij ‘husbandry’, ‘farm’.
U.S.
1. A farm; a ‘plantation’. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > [noun]
townOE
wick1086
farm1414
gainery1424
farmhold1471
room?a1513
farm place1526
colony1566
labouring1604
podere1605
fund1694
location1813
bowery1842
ranch1865
1842 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall II. 225 He had purchased a farm, or, as the Dutch Settlers called it, a bowerie.
1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) iv. i. 203 His abode, which he had fixed at a Bowerie or country-seat at a short distance from the city, just at what is now called Dutch-street.
1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) II. xxii. 53 The [Dutch] emigrants were scattered on boweries or plantations.
2. the Bowery n. an area of southern Manhattan in New York City.Formerly an area of squalid and wretched character, noted for its cheap places of amusement and frequented by homeless vagrants.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [noun] > in North America > (part of) New York
the Bowery1787
Gotham1807
hell's kitchen1879
tenderloin district1887
west side1897
Big Apple1922
village1929
apple1939
Soul City1964
1787 M. Cutler Jrnl. 27 July in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 305 I..left the city by way of the Bowery.
c1844 R. H. Collyer Lights & Shadows Amer. Life 7 The crowd and bustle of business in Chatham Street, and the Bowery.
1930 E. Pound Draft of XXX Cantos xxviii. 130 Stiff as a cigar-store Indian from the Bowery.
3. (See quot. 1878.) Both examples refer to Salt Lake City, Utah.
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1869 S. Bowles Our New West xii. 244 An audience of four or five thousands spread out under the ‘Bowery’ adjoining the Tabernacle where the summer meetings are held.
1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xxi. 341 At once the bretheren were called together in the bowery—an open shed where they usually worshiped.

Compounds

C1. attributive, in sense ‘of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Bowery’.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > low or vulgar person > [adjective]
carlisha1240
lewdc1380
carlc1450
villain1483
ruffian1528
shake-ragged1550
porterlike1568
popular1583
ungracious1584
ordinarya1586
tapsterly1589
mechanic1598
round-headed1598
base-like1600
strummell-patch1600
porterly1603
scrubbing1603
vernaculous1607
plebeian1615
reptile1653
proletarian1663
mobbish1695
low1725
terraefilial1745
low-lifed1747
Whitechapel1785
lowlife1794
boweryish1846
gutter1849
bowery1852
lowish1886
swab1914
lumpen1944
1852 C. A. Bristed Upper Ten Thousand 29 Its occupants are of not-to-be-mistaken Bowery cut—veritable b'hoys.
1884 H. G. Carleton Thompson St. Poker Club 14 Mr. Tooter Williams and the odor of a Bowery cigar entered together.
1924 J. Buchan Three Hostages xviii. 263 ‘Hell!’ he cried, with a torrent of Bowery oaths.
C2.
Bowery boy n. a rough or rowdy of a type at one time characteristic of the Bowery.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > ruffianly conduct > ruffian > [noun] > raising outcry > Bowery
Bowery boy1840
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > rough or boisterous > person > of specific area
Bowery boy1840
Bowery girl1856
Apache1902
1840 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 28 Aug. 2/1 The Bowery boys of New York have..eclipsed the nice young men of Baltimore.
1862 O. W. Norton Army Lett. 48 The Twenty-fifth New York is composed of New York Roughs, Bowery boys, ‘Dead Rabbits’, etc.
Bowery girl n.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > rough or boisterous > person > of specific area
Bowery boy1840
Bowery girl1856
Apache1902
1856 Spirit of Times 1 Nov. 149/1 Starflower of the blooming Bower-y girls.
1882 J. D. McCabe New York 642 The original ‘Bowery Girl’ must have been made of a rib of the original ‘Bowery Boy’, so exactly was she his counterpart.
a1952 E. J. Brady in R. Ward Penguin Bk. Austral. Ballads (1964) 185 The Bowery gal she knows 'er know; The Frisco gal is silly.

Derivatives

ˈboweryish adj. smacking of the Bowery in New York.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > low or vulgar person > [adjective]
carlisha1240
lewdc1380
carlc1450
villain1483
ruffian1528
shake-ragged1550
porterlike1568
popular1583
ungracious1584
ordinarya1586
tapsterly1589
mechanic1598
round-headed1598
base-like1600
strummell-patch1600
porterly1603
scrubbing1603
vernaculous1607
plebeian1615
reptile1653
proletarian1663
mobbish1695
low1725
terraefilial1745
low-lifed1747
Whitechapel1785
lowlife1794
boweryish1846
gutter1849
bowery1852
lowish1886
swab1914
lumpen1944
1846 E. A. Poe Wks. (1864) III. 109 Elevating the tone of this ‘Editor's Table’ (which its best friends are forced to admit is a little Boweryish).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

boweryadj.

Brit. /ˈbaʊəri/, U.S. /ˈbaʊ(ə)ri/
Etymology: < bower n.1 + -y suffix1.
Of the nature of a bower; embowering, leafy.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [adjective] > having arbours
pleached1600
arboured1610
bowery1713
boweringa1717
embowering1717
bowered1746
bower-enshaded1816
the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [adjective] > casting a shadow > overshadowing > affording shade > specific leafy
bowery1713
boweringa1717
1713 A. Pope Windsor-Forest 11 Bow'ry Mazes and surrounding Greens.
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 77 Shaded..by wild overgrown shrubs, bowery acacias.
1862 M. B. Betham-Edwards John & I II. vii. 157 The boweriest part of the garden.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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