Examples
“The word "bowery" is Dutch for farm, and the property was once "the Dutch West India Company farm, in the wilderness of what is now the East Village," Shorto said.”
“Then he returned to America and spent the rest of his life quietly on his farm, or "bowery" as it was called in Dutch.”
“Prince Akuli's limousine had broken an axle a quarter of a mile away, and he and I had sought shelter from the sun in this veritable bowery of a mountain home.”
“Parallel with the street," wrote the topographer HW Timperley in the 1930s, "and a bowshot from it, the Kennet rolls its deep and clear chalk waters beneath the bowery margins of a score of pleasant gardens ...”
“Jan 31st, 2008 at 1: 12 pm simon there is a conveyor belt sushi place in the whole foods on bowery”
“Sometime between 9:30pm and 10:30pm you photographed my bike outside of the the bowery/houston whole foods, wrote a note on it(that is now barely legible because the pen you used smudges), and put it in my spokes(which I didn't find until around 11:30 pm, at which point i got really excited).”
“We have this twisted notion of what an alcoholic looks like, that it ` s some bowery (ph) bum warming their hands over a fire in some skanky part of town, which is not true.”
“Tagged with 190 bowery, architecture, jay maisel, new york city”
“There on his farm, or bowery, as the Dutch called it, he spent a few quiet, happy years.”
“I was so inspired that I found bowery kitchens online, did a search for “mandoline” and they list a japanese mandoline, normally $30, on sale for $24.99.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bowery’.
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
waspiness, upraisers, strainers, sporangia, raspiness, prelatess, methanals, gaspiness, washings, uprisers, upraises, upraiser and 2373 more...
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phrontistery - b
List of words from phrontistery.info
bywoner, byssus, byssiferous, byssaceous, byrnie, butyric, butyraceous, buttery, buteonine, bunting, burdet, broma and 582 more...
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Words To Use In Creative Writing
hag-ridden, light-heeled, wendigo, longshanks, fatuous, insipid, sodden, bulging, sycophantic, uncourtly, gauche, assuasive and 102 more...
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How very mikeropological..
Basically it's just mikeropology's words, but with his username turned into an adjectivally splendid list name.
mikeropology, squoze, anthropromorphism, mullu, spondylus, goobers, hipster, burnt umber, ochre, canvas, lapizure, burnt sienna and 172 more...
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nighthawks at the diner
being words from Tom Waits songs.
vinyl, cigarette, rhinestone, naugahyde, margarine, vermouth, gin, platinum, wurlitzer, menthol, oldsmobile, asphalt and 90 more...
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Best of weirdnet
buttocks, peeler, mum, sweets, tree, auld, bowery, pynchon, horror-stricken, and, tatou, scarf and 37 more...
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Words used in Decemberist songs
dirigible, palanquin, ventricle, mariner, bayonet, tamaracks, parapet, chaparral, magistrate, concubines, odalisque, cinnamon and 52 more...
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Dutch Spelling Bee List
need to know these words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cockatoo, furlough, holster, trawl, cruller, brackish, buckwheat, crimp, floss, klompen, catkin, grabble and 87 more...
Tweets
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uselessness This is my favorite WeirdNet definition ever. Academic and impartial as always. ;-) Jan 14, 2008
reesetee Mikeropology, have you read The Island at the Center of the World? Great book--and the author (Russell Shorto) includes quite a bit of information on phrases & words from the original Dutch colony of New York that have made it into American English.
Recommended to me by none other than chained_bear. :-) Jan 14, 2008
mikeropology Yay, I got people talking about this! It was a college haunt of mine; Bowery Ballroom, CBGB's, Canal Street.. but I really just like the sound of the word. Its historical origins are kinda interesting too ("bouwerij" being old Dutch for farm). Jan 14, 2008
john I used to live not far from the Bowery. That definition was certainly correct for decades, and I think the notion of the "Bowery bum" became so commonplace that the term transcended geography. Personally I think the WordNet def above is relevant, even if it's not so accurate these days.
Nowadays the Bowery is better known for restaurant supply stores. Jan 14, 2008
chained_bear WeirdNet definitions are there as a spur to conversation and discussion... so thanks for posting, mikeropology! Are you from the Bowery, or have you lived there? Jan 14, 2008
reesetee Don't blame Wordie--that's WordNet's (or as we call it, WeirdNet's) definition. Jan 14, 2008
mikeropology yesh! ..way to put down a whole neighbourhood, wordie :( Jan 13, 2008