Meanings
Novy1
plural Novies
- slangA person from Nova Scotia.
"Shrimp! Gloucester shrimp! Git aout^([sic]), you Novy!" To call a Gloucester man a Nova Scotian is not well received. Dan answered in kind.
1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC
Novy2
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