MASSACHUSETTS
ADJECTIVES
► BOSTONIAN belonging to Boston → 1698
NOUNS
► BAY STATE the State of Massachusetts, orig. the Colony of Massachusetts Bay → 1883
► BEAN TOWN Boston → Bk1927 criminals’ sl.
► CHUSETTS Massachusetts → 1941 African-American sl.
► CITY OF NATIONS Boston, Massachusetts → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► CITY OF SPINDLES Lowell, Massachusetts → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► CRADLE OF NEW ENGLAND Plymouth, Massachusetts → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► CRADLE OF THE REVOLUTION Boston, Massachusetts → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► CRANBERRY CAPITAL OF THE WORLD Carver, Massachusetts → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► EASTIE East Boston, Massachusetts → 1983 US sl.
► EYE OF AMERICA, THE Boston, Massachusetts → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► GRANITE CITY Boston, Massachusetts → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► HOME OF THE BEAN AND THE COD Boston, Massachusetts → 1910 Amer. dial.
► HUB, THE Boston → 1926 US sl. (Bk.)
► LAND OF PORK AND BEANS Massachusetts → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► LITERARY EMPORIUM, THE Boston, Massachusetts → 1840 Amer. dial.
► PILGRIM CITY Boston, Massachusetts → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SPINDLE CITY, THE Lowell, Massachusetts → 1858 Amer.
► TRIMOUNT CITY Boston, Massachusetts → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► ZONE, THE an unsavoury area in downtown Boston, dominated by sex shops, bars, and drug dealers → 1984 US sl.
NOUNS – PERSON
► BAKED BEAN a native of Boston, Massachusetts → 1882 US sl.
► BAYMAN one who lived near Massachusetts Bay → 1643 US
► BAY STATER a native or inhabitant of Massachusetts, orig. the Colony of Massachusetts Bay → 1845
► BEAN-EATER a native, inhabitant, or representative of Boston, Massachusetts → 1842 sl.
► BEAN-SHOOTER a native of Boston, Massachusetts → 1921 US sl.
► BEANTOWNER a native or inhabitant of Boston; a member of the Boston Red Sox baseball team → 1915
► BOSTONER a Bostonian → 1758 US obs.
► BOSTONESE natives or inhabitants of Boston → 1888 US
► BOSTONIAN a native or inhabitant of Boston, Massachusetts → 1698
► BOW-WOW a native of Boston → L18 sl.
► BRAVA a resident of the Cape Cod area whose ancestors were Black and Portuguese immigrants from the Cape Verde Islands → 1933 Amer. dial.
► BRAVO a resident of the Cape Cod area whose ancestors were Black and Portuguese immigrants from the Cape Verde Islands → 1931 Amer. dial.
► COOF a person not a native of Nantucket; sometimes, a native of Cape Cod → 1825 Amer. dial. obs.
► MASSACHUSETTSIAN an inhabitant of Massachusetts → 1650 Amer. dial., obs.
► NUTMEG a White New Englander, esp. of Connecticut, Massachusetts, or Rhode Island → 1821 sl.
► NUTMEG-MAKER a White New Englander, esp. of Connecticut, Massachusetts, or Rhode Island → 1883 sl.
► PILGRIM PEOPLE the inhabitants of Massachusetts → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SCRAP ISLANDER applied to a Nantucketer by the people of Martha’s Vineyard → 1916 Amer. dial.
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