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Fall Reeve

Fall Reeve proper noun: nickname for Fall River: a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States.

Proper noun

Fall Reeve

  1. (informal) Nickname for Fall River: a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States.
    • My mother bake the massa sovadas, the sweetbreads. Much vinho tinto, some aguardente that maka the old folks have dreams. The band, she come from Fall Reeve; the young folks, they danca.1956, David Patten, Three Sides to the Sea: Memories of a Scunnet Childhood, Rinehart, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 68
    • > Tangentially, I don't know anything about the derivation of "hoagie."
      > Anyone?
      I'd ask Emeril. He's from Fall Reeve.2000 June 2, tejas, “The JaneSoc of Snod”, in rec.arts.books (Usenet)

Forms of Fall Reeve

alternative formFall Reev

Origin of Fall Reeve

Apparently a pronunciation spelling based on the speech of Portuguese immigrants.

Questions about Fall Reeve

What does Fall Reeve mean?
Fall Reeve means nickname for Fall River: a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States.
What part of speech is Fall Reeve?
Fall Reeve is a proper noun.

Words near Fall Reeve in the dictionary

  1. fall plate
  2. fall plates
  3. fall pray
  4. fall pregnant
  5. fall prey
  6. Fall Reeve
  7. Fall River
  8. Fall River County
  9. Fall River Mills
  10. fall seven times, stand up eight
  11. fall short

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