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Nuyorican
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nuyorican
English
2025 December 10
Etymology
horizontal 400 Lin-Manuel Miranda by Gage Skidmore.jpg 1728 2328 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Official Portrait.jpg 3360 4200 Neil deGrasse Tyson in June 2017 (cropped).jpg 1752 2531 Notable Nuyoricans (noun sense; left to right): actor, filmmaker, and songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda; politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; and astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson.
en New York Puerto Rican adjective, noun, possibly influenced by es neoyorquino New YorkerNewyorican n. and adj 1877491914 July 2023 or es Nueva York Nu(eva) Yor(k) New York.n
Pronunciation
en /ˌnjuːjəˈɹiːkn̩/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Nuyorican.wav Southern England
en /ˌn(j)ujəˈɹik(ə)n/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-Nuyorican.wav GA /ˌnjujəˈɹikən/
en iːkən 4
en Nu yor ic an
Adjective
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en originally and chiefly US informal Of or relating to New Yorkers of Puerto Rican descent.
en 1993 w:Ilan Stavans Foreword w:Harold Augenbraum; Ilan Stavans Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories A Marc Jaffe Book Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y. Houghton Mifflin Company xii https://archive.org/details/growinguplatinom00auge/page/n15/mode/1up 978-0-395-62231-5 English-speaking Nuyorican, Chicano, and Cuban writers know two verbs for to be and to know, and are obsessed with the past.
3 April 2009 Garth Cartwright Joe Cuba: Musician crowned ‘king of Latin Boogaloo’ https://web.archive.org/web/20160314113707/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/apr/03/joe-cuba-obituary 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.
Alternative forms
en Newyorican nuyorican
Hypernyms
en Neorican
Related terms
en Rican
Translations
of or relating to New Yorkers of Puerto Rican descent
Finnish: fi puertoricolais-newyorkilainen
French: fr
Noun
en originally and chiefly US informal A New Yorker of Puerto Rican descent.
14 May 1976 David Vidal ‘Nuyoricans’ express pain and Joy in poetry https://web.archive.org/web/20241130222955/https://www.nytimes.com/1976/05/14/archives/nuyoricans-express-pain-and-joy-in-poetry-nuyoricans-express-their.html 29 4 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.
en 1995 Peter Manuel Latin Music in the New World Order: Salsa & Beyond Ron Sakolsky; Fred Wei-han Ho Sounding Off!: Music As Subversion/Resistance/Revolution Brooklyn, New York, N.Y. w:Autonomedia 277 https://archive.org/details/soundingoffmusic0000unse/page/277/mode/1up 978-1-57027-058-1 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.
Alternative forms
en Newyorican
Hypernyms
en Neorican
en New Yorker
en New Yorkian
Related terms
en Rican
Translations
New Yorker of Puerto Rican descent
Finnish: fi puertoricolais-newyorkilainen
French: fr
Proper noun
en originally and chiefly US informal The variety of Spanish spoken by New Yorkers of Puerto Rican descent.
en 1991 w:Miguel Algarín [Poets’ Sampler] Christmas Eve: Nuyorican Café Faythe Turner Puerto Rican Writers at Home in the USA: An Anthology Seattle, Wash. Open Hand Publishing 20 https://archive.org/details/puertoricanwrite0000turn/page/20/mode/1up 978-0-940880-32-0 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.
en 1997 K. J. A. Wishnia 2 23 Shades of Black New York, N.Y. Signet, Penguin Group 48–49 https://archive.org/details/23shadesofblack00wish/page/49/mode/1up 978-0-7394-0067-8 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.
Translations
variety of Spanish spoken by New Yorkers of Puerto Rican descent
Finnish: fi espanjan puertoricolais-newyorkilainen kielimuoto
French: fr
References
Further reading
Anagrams
en acinnoruy urocyanin
en terms suffixed with -an
en New York City Puerto Rico Spanish