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New Yorkeress

New Yorkeress noun: a female New Yorker.

Noun

New Yorkeress (plural New Yorkeresses)

  1. (dated) A female New Yorker.
    • But—(see our European corresponde to-day)—but—the authoress of the hooped circle, the Empress Eugénie, has appeared in public without hoops. A revolution is in prospect, to which ’93 is pale! Hoops, avaunt! Down on your knees, feminine provincialdom, and hear the resistless ukase of the Empress...1857, Porter’s Spirit of the Times: A Chronicle of the Turf, Field Sports, Literature and the Stage, page 26, column 2
    • Bulls! had you have visited Central Park when the New Yorkeresses were on the ice, you would have seen where the dear Little Slippers were.1861, Vanity Fair, volume third, New York: Louis H. Stephens, page 125, column 2

Examples of New Yorkeress in a sentence

  • She is not a New Yorker—or, as Webster would probably say,—a New Yorkeress.1870, Punchinello, page 86, column 1:
  • Where is the New Yorker in the fifties, or the New Yorkeress of uncertain age, who has not had a good time at Niblo’s?1886, Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly, volume 21, page 3, column 1:
  • Howells’s Americanisms are mild and moderate, and only here and there do we meet with such words as “disoccupation” or a “New Yorkeress.”[1894, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 78, page 689, column 2:
  • If a New Yorker is polite it is because he has either a gold-brick or a gaspipe up his sleeve; but it is the strange New Yorkeress who is preeminently to be shunned.1921, Adventure, volume 29, page 52:

Forms of New Yorkeress

pluralNew Yorkeresses
alternative formNew-Yorkeress

Origin of New Yorkeress

From New Yorker + -ess.

Questions about New Yorkeress

What does New Yorkeress mean?
New Yorkeress means a female New Yorker.
How do you use New Yorkeress in a sentence?
She is not a New Yorker—or, as Webster would probably say,—a New Yorkeress.
What part of speech is New Yorkeress?
New Yorkeress is a noun.
What is the plural of New Yorkeress?
The plural of New Yorkeress is New Yorkeresses.

Words near New Yorkeress in the dictionary

  1. New York weevil
  2. New York-style pizza
  3. New York-style pizzas
  4. New York/New Jersey Bight
  5. New Yorker
  6. New Yorkeress
  7. New Yorkeresses
  8. New Yorkers
  9. New Yorkese
  10. New Yorkian
  11. New Yorkians

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