New Yorkian

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1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of, New York.

   Let me conclude that TAS [The Absolute Sound] is a good product, even if it is sometimes difficult to understand for people who aren’t fluent in any of the New Yorkian languages, including American and Audio Latin.

   1987, Jack Van Messel, “A Tough Cooky Makes a Too-Tough Review”, in The Absolute Sound, page 31, column 2

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   There is the Paris sadness, which is that of satiety and reaction, and the Viennese, which is that of Strauss. / There is the Bostonian, which is commercial literary; and the New Yorkian, which is blague commercial—yet no bad spirit withal—and the Philadelphian, which is peculiar in being without a peculiarity, which moveth silently, divineth unutterable things within itself, and behaveth decently,—a very commeil faut sort of sadness! / These are the varieties of sadness, pertaining to each city.

   1853 March 5, Charles G[odfrey] Leland, “The Sadness of Rome---and Other Cities”, in The Pen and Pencil. A Weekly Journal of Literature, Science, Art and News., volume I, number X, Cincinnati, Oh., pages 303–304, columns 2–1

   The editor of perhaps the most widely read magazine issuing from the metropolis was recently asked, “Is your magazine read much in New York city itself?” / “Oh, yes,” he answered, “but we are more popular in the United States.” The answer was indicative. New York is not American. It is merely New Yorkian. And the New Yorker is beginning to know it and to regret it.

   1908 April 16, “A Few Lines on the “Big Burg””, in The Los Angeles Record, volume XX, number 9281, Los Angeles, Calif., page 4, column 1

   The inescapable Beaux Arts style, the many monuments by McKim, Mead & White, the white brick 1960s behemoth apartment blocks towering above modest brownstone houses; French gothic chateaux, Italian Renaissance palazzi, sham Louis XVI furbelowed facades flaunt themselves next to restrained Georgian-style town houses; baroque-faced churches, prim Puritan places of worship, elaborate synagogues are jumbled next to turreted fantasies, vast apartment blocks, gleaming mirrored office skyscrapers. It’s all utterly New Yorkian.

   2017, Polly Devlin, “The Bowerbirds”, in New York Behind Closed Doors, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN

   Synonyms: New Yorkish, New Yorky

plural New Yorkians · alternative rare New-Yorkian · alternative rare Newyorkian

1. A native or inhabitant of New York.

   A minister of the Lutheran Church in America, Dr. Van Deusen, a native New Yorkian, has served with the Lutheran Council since 1944.

   1965 December 2, “Council Topic: Church-State”, in The Greenville News, number 336, Greenville, S.C., page 41, column 5

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   Mr Hollis tells me that Bute has established a Jesuit in a school at Kensington and has sent two of his younger children to be educated by him, and had made Barron … send two of his. He thinks with me that the late Act of Parliament respecting New York most tyrannical and hopes the honest New Yorkians will not submit to it, but will draw their swords in defence of their Liberty.

   1767 July 9, Sylas Neville, The Diary of Sylas Neville, 1767—1788, Oxford University Press, published 1950, page 17

   What pity it is that the New Yorkian of that honourable body should make them so blind to real interest as not to prefer the first city on the finest river in the most respectable state in America, to a parcel of buildings, confusedly situated on a pitiful island which has neither ice in winter to protect it, nor force in summer sufficient to prevent Congress and all their papers being carried off by pirates.

   1788 October 4, “Site for Capitol”, in Pittsburgh Gazette; republished as “Extracts From The Pittsburgh Gazette: Site for Capitol”, in The Gazette Times, Pittsburgh, Pa., 27 January 1923, page 6, column 5

   In fact, the Californian or Ohioan or New Yorkian who lands a No. 4 plate on her all-terrain minivan is much more likely to survive the transition with her insanely sped up driving habits than the one who actually has to brake for a cow every now and then in Ravalli County.

   2016 May 19, Bill LaCroix, “Drive how we vote”, in Missoula Independent: Western Montana’s Weekly Journal of People, Politics and Culture, volume 27, number 20, Missoula, Mont., page 4

   Synonyms: New Yorker