New Beige

proper noun

Nickname for New Bedford: a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States.

Meanings

proper noun

alternative New Bej

  1. informalNickname for New Bedford: a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States.

    New Bedford aka Lil Portugal.. aka New Beige... it's in Massachusetts.

    1999 September 25, Everyones^([sic]) Little Skin Sister, “i ask, you answer”, in alt.skinheads.moderated (Usenet)
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    >Surely you can find decent chourico in Rhode Island, no? Only the part of RI that is close to Fall River and New Beige....

    2004 September 10, nantuckets finest, “From Pat Buchanan.......”, in rec.music.gdead (Usenet)

    According to a listing I found on the Web, the company actually has a warehouse and retail store in New Beige.

    2008 December 9, Jan Brogan, Teaser (Hallie Ahern Mysteries), Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 145

    His father says the races have been mingling in New Bej since the whaling days.

    2011 July 1, Randall Peffer, Old School Bones, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN

    New Beige, a place where half/ of the hell of this city don’t even speak.

    2019, Maggie L.N. Felisberto, quoting Millicent Borges Accardi, “Kale Soup and the Portuguese-American Soul: The Work of Millicent Borges Accardi”, in Christopher Larkosh, editor, Luso-American Literatures and Cultures Today (Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies; 32), Tagus Press (UMass Dartmouth), →ISBN, →OCLC

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Origin

Apparently a pronunciation spelling based on the speech of Portuguese immigrants.

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New Beige. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/New%20Beige

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