Definitions
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- noun A dialect of
English spoken in New York. - noun People, or one person, from New York.
Etymologies
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Examples
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So you know, in kind of New Yorkese, "You ain't seen nothing yet."
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Although the word "gridlock" is vintage New Yorkese, only Washington could take the word and give it an entirely different meaning, as in "political gridlock," which is what happens when little gets done.
John B. Townsend II: Gridlocked: Staring at Brake Lights and Holding First Place
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Although the word "gridlock" is vintage New Yorkese, only Washington could take the word and give it an entirely different meaning, as in "political gridlock," which is what happens when little gets done.
John B. Townsend II: Gridlocked: Staring at Brake Lights and Holding First Place
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His staccato, polysyllabic, deadpan New Yorkese was the opposite of what we had been taught to expect.
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"Okay, so this old guy dies and goes up to heaven," I began in the same voice, which to my ear was dripping in New Yorkese.
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“New York tawk features a diphthongal aw sound,” Elster observes, “that in heavy New Yorkese sounds almost disyllabic.”
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Although the transliteration of the New Yorkese phrase has appeared on T-shirts around the country, the expression is not being dropped by Noo Yawkiz, which so often happens when a dialect phrase becomes adopted by outsiders.
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“New York tawk features a diphthongal aw sound,” Elster observes, “that in heavy New Yorkese sounds almost disyllabic.”
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Although the transliteration of the New Yorkese phrase has appeared on T-shirts around the country, the expression is not being dropped by Noo Yawkiz, which so often happens when a dialect phrase becomes adopted by outsiders.
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In New Yorkese, “two or three” becomes a couple few.
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