Newf
noun
Newf
1 American
[noof, nyoof]
/ nuf, njuf /
noun
Chiefly Canadian Slang: Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive.
Newf.
2
American
abbreviation
Etymology
Origin of Newf
By shortening
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Lloyd's of London once presented a medal to a Newf who swam ashore with a line from a vessel foundering on the Nova Scotia coast, helping rescuers haul passengers and crew to safety.
From Time Magazine Archive
Woolly; stem grooved, 4–8° high; leaflets broad, irregularly cut-toothed.—Wet ground, Newf. to the Pacific, and southward to N. C.,
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Newf. to the mountains of N. C., west to Ind. and Minn. 13.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Newf. to the mountains of N. C., west to Minn. June–Aug.—Flowers honey-color, not showy, as are the Japanese species cultivated under the name of Weigela.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Newf. to Minn., and south to Ga. 11.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Newf. to Ga., west to Minn., E. Neb., and Tex.—Fruit very austere and astringent.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
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