SUBURB, SUBURBAN
ADJECTIVES
► BURBED OUT looking very middle-class and suburban; decked out like a suburban citizen → 1990 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SUBURBIAL suburban → 1602 obs.
► SUBURBIAN suburban → 1606 obs.
► SUBURBICARY suburban → 1654 obs.
NOUNS
► BACKBLOCKS the outer suburbs of a city → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► BURBS the suburbs → 1970s sl.
► BUSH the suburbs → 1942 Aust. sl.
► FABOR ► FABOUR a suburb of a city→ c1470 obs.
► FAUBOURG ► FAUXBOURG ► FAUXBURGH ► FOURBOURG a portion of a town or city, lying outside the gates; a suburb → 1470
► NAGAR a town, city, or suburb; a district within a town → 1921 Indian English
► NAPPY VALLEY a dormitory suburb, mainly populated → 1972
► NOB HILL an exclusive residential district; the aristocratic suburb of a city → 1912 Amer. dial.
► NOB’S HILL an exclusive residential district; the aristocratic suburb of a city → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SADLANDS the suburbs of a city → 2002 UK sl.
► SLURB an area of unplanned suburban development → M20 orig. US derogatory
► SLURBS the suburbs → M20 orig. US derogatory
► SUBURBLES suburbs → a1400 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► SUBURBIAN a resident in the suburbs → 1607 obs.
► WALLY ► WOLLY an unfashionable, unintelligent, suburban person, lacking in taste and sophistication → 1920s sl.
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