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New-Yorkian en · ADJ

Etymology

From New-York or New York + -ian.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, rare) Rare spelling of New Yorkian.
   alt of New Yorkian
   • The Doctor’s House. James Liddy. Salmon. 142 pp € 15 pb 21 cm 1-903392-39-x. After anecdotes and snippets from the poet’s Wexford childhood (he was born 1934) about his dispensary doctor father and New-Yorkian mother, the real show begins when he hits the big smoke for college days and apprenticeship among the McDaid’s mob. 2005, Books Ireland, page 25, column 1:
   • Alexander Chervinsky makes his works by balancing on the intersection of New-Yorkian aestheticism and spiritual impulses inherent only to Tolstoy’s and Dostoevsky’s characters. 2021, Lisa Plavinsky, “Introduction”, in Martin Dewhirst, Marina Dewhirst, Anastasia Samostra, transl., edited by Alexander Chervinsky, You Never Know, Dobro-books:
   • Every smart New-Yorkian song begins anywhere, but surely ends with the Bowery. 1895, Rudyard Home, “Unprecedented Growth of New York”, in Columbian Sketches, Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son, page 40:
   • The very month that this tribute of the leading English art review appeared, the readers of a New York journal were told that it would be pleasant to feel sure that American art as a whole was beginning to take on some sort of national complexion: “[…] The subjects they choose are rarely American; they take little pains to reproduce American landscapes or types of character; they pay little attention to American historical episodes. They are Parisian, rather than New-Yorkian.” 1888, George William Sheldon, chapter VIII, in Recent Ideals of American Art: […], New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, published 1890, pages 142–144:
   • After his early Ohio experience, which finds a reflex mainly in his autobiography, the scenes of his fiction, initially Venetian, maturely Bostonian, autumnally New-Yorkian, dispersedly and interspersedly European and American, copy his migrations as precisely as if his imagination were a part of his luggage. 1924, Oscar W. Firkins, “Novel and Tale”, in William Dean Howells: A Study, New York, N.Y.: Russell & Russell, Inc., published 1963, page 65:
   • Has any intimation been forwarded of the[…]of this “tall-talker” to New-Yorkian shores? 1878 January 18, “Reflections. (Personal and otherwise.)”, in The Bicycle Journal, volume 1 (new series), number 75, page 25, column 2:

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