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Gothamite

British  
/ ˈɡɒθəˌmaɪt /

noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of New York City

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Gothamite

C20: from Gotham , a nickname for New York City


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Bon vivant and wit Seamus O’Sullivan, a longtime staff writer of the Gothamite: Might this be Brendan Gill of the New Yorker?

From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2015

While he serenades Manhattan with a smitten rendition of Cole Porter’s “I Happen to Like New York,” he lets us know that even as a Gothamite, he remains an easygoing, outdoors-loving Aussie.

From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2011

“The solemn-looking Gothamite who came with them must have slipped out.”

From Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters by Charles King

If a few of them chanced to be of Knickerbocker stock, and to bear the talisman which affords admission to the higher circles of Gothamite respectability, it is only what might have been expected.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

On his native heath he accosted a venerable old chap of some eighty years, who proved to be the very person the Gothamite sought to answer certain inquiries concerning the place.

From Best Short Stories by Thomas L. Masson

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