nuyorican
/ˌnjuːjəˈɹiːkn̩/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.50 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Nuyorican.
Example Sentences
- "English-speaking Nuyorican, Chicano, and Cuban writers know two verbs for to be and to know, and are obsessed with the past."
- "He [Joe Cuba] was an icon to New York's Puerto Rican community and can be considered a pioneer of "nuyorican" (New York Puerto Rican) culture."
- "There are about 40 young men and women, largely second‐ and third-generation Puerto Rican New Yorkers who call themselves "Nuyoricans," in the crowded storefront cafe at 505 East Sixth Street, on the Lower East Side. Some are poets, some are listeners."
- "But the decade's spirit of questioning and mobilization also took hold among minorities, including New York City's more than three million Latinos—primarily Puerto Ricans, or "Newyoricans." […] In the wake of the Black Panthers, the Young Lords mobilized Newyoricans to demand fair treatment and better social services."
- "jesus is born speaking Nuyorican / eating tortillas con salchichas / to the rhythms of winter hot / conga drums that / lament an ice cold Christmas / that slips away under a slight / blanket of Christmas snow."
- "And suddenly I became the interpreter for people who never realized my Andean mestizo Spanish was not always enough to relate to people who grew up on East 116th Street speaking Nuyorican."
Etymology
Blend of New York + Puerto Rican (adjective, noun), possibly influenced by Spanish neoyorquino (“New Yorker”) or Nu(eva) Yor(k) (“New York”).
Usage
Inflected Forms
Newyorican (alternative)
Nuyoricans (plural)
more nuyorican (comparative)
most nuyorican (superlative)