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Nuyorican en · ADJ

Blend of New York + Puerto Rican (adjective, noun), possibly influenced by Spanish neoyorquino (“New Yorker”) or Nu(eva) Yor(k) (“New York”).

(informal, not-comparable) Of or relating to New Yorkers of Puerto Rican descent.
- He [Joe Cuba] was an icon to New York's Puerto Rican community and can be considered a pioneer of "nuyorican" (New York Puerto Rican) culture. 2009 April 3, Garth Cartwright, “Joe Cuba: Musician crowned ‘king of Latin Boogaloo’”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2016:
- English-speaking Nuyorican, Chicano, and Cuban writers know two verbs for to be and to know, and are obsessed with the past. 1993, Ilan Stavans, “Foreword”, in Harold Augenbraum, Ilan Stavans, editors, Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories (A Marc Jaffe Book), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page xii:

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Newyorican		alternative	lexicographic
nuyorican		alternative	lexicographic

fi puertoricolais-newyorkilainen (of or relating to New Yorkers of Puerto Rican descent)

Blend of New York + Puerto Rican (adjective, noun), possibly influenced by Spanish neoyorquino (“New Yorker”) or Nu(eva) Yor(k) (“New York”).

(informal) A New Yorker of Puerto Rican descent.
- But the decade's spirit of questioning and mobilization also took hold among minorities, including New York City's more than three million Latinos—primarily Puerto Ricans, or "Newyoricans." […] In the wake of the Black Panthers, the Young Lords mobilized Newyoricans to demand fair treatment and better social services. 1995, Peter Manuel, “Latin Music in the New World Order: Salsa & Beyond”, in Ron Sakolsky, Fred Wei-han Ho, editors, Sounding Off!: Music As Subversion/Resistance/Revolution, Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.: Autonomedia, →ISBN, page 277:
- There are about 40 young men and women, largely second‐ and third-generation Puerto Rican New Yorkers who call themselves "Nuyoricans," in the crowded storefront cafe at 505 East Sixth Street, on the Lower East Side. Some are poets, some are listeners. 1976 May 14, David Vidal, “‘Nuyoricans’ express pain and Joy in poetry”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Nov 2024, page 29, column 4:

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Newyorican		alternative	lexicographic
Nuyoricans	Number=Plur		lexicographic

fi puertoricolais-newyorkilainen (New Yorker of Puerto Rican descent)

Blend of New York + Puerto Rican (adjective, noun), possibly influenced by Spanish neoyorquino (“New Yorker”) or Nu(eva) Yor(k) (“New York”).

(informal) The variety of Spanish spoken by New Yorkers of Puerto Rican descent.
- And suddenly I became the interpreter for people who never realized my Andean mestizo Spanish was not always enough to relate to people who grew up on East 116th Street speaking Nuyorican. 1997, K. J. A. Wishnia, chapter 2, in 23 Shades of Black, New York, N.Y.: Signet, Penguin Group, →ISBN, pages 48–49:
- jesus is born speaking Nuyorican / eating tortillas con salchichas / to the rhythms of winter hot / conga drums that / lament an ice cold Christmas / that slips away under a slight / blanket of Christmas snow. 1991, Miguel Algarín, “[Poets’ Sampler] Christmas Eve: Nuyorican Café”, in Faythe Turner, editor, Puerto Rican Writers at Home in the USA: An Anthology, Seattle, Wash.: Open Hand Publishing, →ISBN, page 20: