Meaning of Newyorkian | Babel Free

Definitions

Rare spelling of New Yorkian.

alt-of, rare

Examples

“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 Newyorkian. And the New Yorker is beginning to know⟳ it and to regret⟳ it.”

“In bed, he dreamt of Caty, of her sweet and solid body nourished on all the Newyorkian essences, her aromatic Boricuan body of markedly horizontal tendencies.[…]In the livingroom decorated with posters of erotic content—Babylonian Newyorkian obsession—the guests move⟳ from one spot to another: pale youths with huge afros, girls in slacks, an occasional skirt.[…]Oh, a bien chévere couple, he will be ashamed of his father I will raise⟳ him by myself Newyorican son, hum, his grain of sand in the Newyorkian population hum, feeling the nostalgic notes of a guitar the rasping of a güiro on the floor below, Boricuan Christmas in the urban setting oh unbearable nostalgia, loneliness profoundly exhausted not only from the effects of the hard work⟳ under the Manolo-ian vigilance, an exhaustion from deep within.”

“Along this leg one usually can find⟳ hot-dogs, knishes and assorted Newyorkian nosh delicacies purchasable from pushcart stands.”

“With a little help⟳ from our Newyorkian friend, Jeremy Malvasia, in the vocal department and to be featured, in a slightly different version, on the forthcoming album Viva Riva.”

“just then the world began to spin⟳, or was it the room? it must have⟳ been the room... / the instructions must have⟳ gotten lost in all the mayhem / the manhattan project: a crisis of newyorkian proportions”

“Interestingly, the best-known of the Friedrichstraße entries today was one ignored by jury at the time: [Ludwig] Mies van der Rohe’s very “Newyorkian” steel and glass tower.”

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