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New England
[See New Englander.]
a. Used to denote a form of U.S. speech characteristic of New England, and attrib. of persons, produce, etc., native to New England; of mentality, idiom, etc., marked by the characteristics of New England.
1638J. Underhill in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. (1837) 3rd. Ser. VI. 5 Let the clamor be quenched.., that New England men usurp over their wives. 1655Deeds Suffolk County, Mass. (1883) II. 166 Thirty quintalls he reciued..was New England fish. 1709W. Byrd Secret Diary (1941) 13 Parson Ware sent to me for a pint of canary, he being sick of the gripes with the New England rum. 1715S. Sewall Diary (1882) III. 56 Gave Mr. Short's daughter a New-England shilling. 1787M. Cutler in Parker & Cutler Life M. Cutler (1888) I. 195 [You are] acquainted with the institution of a Company in the New England States by the name of the Ohio Company. 1839Southern Lit. Messenger V. 112/2 Noah Webster..will ere long succeed in giving us a New England tongue which shall not be intelligible in Britain. 1842Dickens Let. 29 Apr. (1974) III. 217 A New England Poet buzzed about me on the Ohio, like a gigantic Bee. 1845J. F. Cooper Chainbearer II. xiv. 466 The supercilious feeling of the New Englandman can very easily be traced to his origin in the mother country. 1850W. C. Fowler Eng. Gram. ii. iii. 92 To pass over the local peculiarities of smaller districts, there are certain generic dialectal differences which characterize, 1. New England. 2. The Southern States. 3. The Western States. 1905R. Fry Let. Jan. (1972) I. 228 The Philadelphia Quakeress..said ‘You know I can't bear it because I've got a New England conscience.’ 1917T. S. Eliot Prufrock 34 The barren New England hills. 1934Webster p. xlviii/1, Another variety of short o is the ‘New England short o’. This is acoustically intermediate between ō (nōte) and ŭ (nŭt), being practically an ŭ sounded with rounded lips. 1935A. C. Baugh Hist. Eng. Lang. 446 In the English language spoken in America three major dialects can be distinguished: New England, Southern, and General American. 1951Language XXVII. 425 The division into Northern, Midland, and Southern (instead of the older New England, General American, and Southern) does not come as a shock. 1952S. Kauffmann Philanderer (1953) iii. 33 They had just been graduated from a small New England college. 1975Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 26 Oct. 30/8 New England peachblow [glass] is made in one layer shading from red to white. 1975P. Organ House on Cheyne Walk v. 31 We could stand a little New England uprightness here. One tires of the bohemian life.
b. In special collocations, as New England aster, a large Michaelmas daisy, Aster novæangliæ; New England boiled dinner, a boiled dinner, esp. one including corned beef; New England mayflower, a prostrate, evergreen shrub, Epigæa repens, belonging to the family Ericaceæ, native to the eastern half of North America, and better known as trailing arbutus; New England theology, a movement in American Congregationalism, also affecting other American Protestant bodies, which repudiated much Calvinist doctrine.
1814J. Bigelow Florula Bostoniensis 199 Aster Novæ Angliæ. New England aster... A tall, and very beautiful plant. Stem three feet high, brown, very hairy. 1931W. N. Clute Common Names of Plants 140 The New England aster (Aster Nova [sic] Angliæ), which lingers long in the fields and fence corners, is further distinguished as last-rose-of-summer. 1968Peterson & McKenny Field Guide to Wildflowers Northeastern & Northcentral N. Amer. 356 New England Aster. Aster novæ-angliæ. Our most showy wild aster, deeper violet than the others; rarely rose-colored.
1936F. M. Farmer Boston Cooking-School Cook Bk. (new ed.) 277 New England boiled dinner. Served warm, unpressed corned beef with cabbage, beets, turnips, carrots, and potatoes. 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 20 June 703/2 We have a New England boiled dinner as well as pot-au-feu.
1855Harvard Mag. I. 232 Most admired of our spring flowers is the Ground Laurel, Epigæa repens, commonly called Trailing Arbutus, or New England Mayflower. 1952A. G. L. Hellyer Sanders' Encycl. Gardening (ed. 22) 178 Epigæa{ddd}repens, ‘American Ground Laurel’, ‘New England Mayflower’, ‘Trailing Arbutus’, white, fragrant.
1899G. N. Boardman (title) A history of New England theology. 1967D. T. Kauffman Dict. Religious Terms 329/1 New England theology, term for the movement in New England in the latter part of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century to tie Calvinism to human reason and experience. |