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newsies

newsies is the plural of newsy.

newsies is the plural of newsie.

Meaning of newsy

Noun

newsy (plural newsies)

  1. (US, informal) Someone selling newspapers; a newsboy.
  2. (Canada, US, informal) A journalist, especially a reporter.
    • Taken together, these websites resembled something of a first-person news network, a collective form of collaborative news-gathering. Ordinary people were transforming into 'amateur newsies', […]2006, Stuart Allan, Online News: Journalism And The Internet, page 61

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Questions about newsies

What is newsies the plural of?
Newsies is the plural of newsy.

Words near newsies in the dictionary

  1. newshosts
  2. newshound
  3. newshounds
  4. newsie
  5. newsier
  6. newsies
  7. newsiest
  8. newsily
  9. newsiness
  10. newsing
  11. newsish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: newsies (page history and authors); newsy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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