Gothamite
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Gothamite
C20: from Gotham , a nickname for New York City
Example Sentences
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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
Two others turn upon wrong responses at a christening and a marriage, which have certainly nothing Gothamite in them.
From The Book of Noodles Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their Follies by Clouston, William Alexander
Gothamite, goth′a-mīt, Gothamist, goth′a-mist, n. a simpleton: a wiseacre.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
In their extensive tea ware-rooms in Walker street the business was conducted by the shrewdest representatives of Gothamite trade, with all the appliances of the great Chinese tea-importing houses.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
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