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- proper noun The
dialect ofAmerican English spoken in theborough ofBrooklyn inNew York .
Etymologies
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Examples
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When Dodger wasnt being a professional and speaking with hotel guests, he had a fast way of speaking that he called Brooklynese.
Pendragon: Book Eight: The Pilgrims of Rayne D. J. MacHale 2007
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Others -- like "Brooklynese" -- are not in fact real languages, but
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The streets were thick with cabs, the sidewalks clogged with tourists speaking languages as far-flung as Ukrainian and the slightly closer-to-home dialect known as Brooklynese.
Georgia’s Kitchen Jenny Nelson 2010
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I believe, from a lot of research and knowledge of NYC, Dutch languages, that the so-called Brooklynese accent, derived from the original Dutch accents in NY.
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I believe, from a lot of research and knowledge of NYC, Dutch languages, that the so-called Brooklynese accent, derived from the original Dutch accents in NY.
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Cawfee Mug: Channel the inner New Yorker and diner coffee lover with the "Brooklynese" mug.
Serious Eats 2009
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Cawfee Mug: Channel the inner New Yorker and diner coffee lover with the "Brooklynese" mug.
Serious Eats 2009
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Cawfee Mug: Channel the inner New Yorker and diner coffee lover with the "Brooklynese" mug.
Serious Eats 2009
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Or he can go for an approximation, adopting a kind of Brooklynese, for example, but this would not evoke Döblin's louche Berlin milieu so much as Damon Runyon's New York. [
The Genius of Berlin Buruma, Ian 2008
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Or Doiby Dickles, a wrench-wielding cabbie who spoke Brooklynese and hung out with the original Green Lantern.
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