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▪ I. bowery, n. U.S.|ˈbaʊərɪ|
[ad. Du. bouwerij ‘husbandry’, ‘farm’.]
a. A farm; a ‘plantation’. obs. exc. in the Bowery: in New York City, an area of a squalid and wretched character noted for its cheap places of amusement and frequented by homeless vagrants.
1787M. Cutler in W. P. & J. P. Cutler Life & Corr. (1888) I. 305, I..left the city by way of the Bowery. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 116 His abode which he had fixed at a bowery, or country-seat, at a short distance from the city, just at what is now called Dutch Street. 1842― Braceb. Hall II. 225 He had purchased a farm, or, as the Dutch Settlers called it, a bowerie. c1844R. H. Collyer Lights & Shadows Amer. Life 7 The crowd and bustle of business in Chatham Street, and the Bowery. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S., The [Dutch] emigrants were scattered on boweries or plantations. 1930E. Pound XXX Cantos xxviii. 130 Stiff as a cigar-store Indian from the Bowery.
b. attrib., in sense ‘of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Bowery’; Bowery boy, a rough or rowdy of a type at one time characteristic of the Bowery.
1840Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 28 Aug. 2/1 The Bowery boys of New York have..eclipsed the nice young men of Baltimore. 1852C. A. Bristed Upper Ten Thousand 29 Its occupants are of not-to-be-mistaken Bowery cut—veritable b'hoys. 1856Spirit of Times 1 Nov. 149/1 Starflower of the blooming Bower-y girls. 1882J. D. McCabe New York 642 The original ‘Bowery Girl’ must have been made of a rib of the original ‘Bowery Boy’, so exactly was she his counterpart. 1884Thompson St. Poker Club 14 Mr. Tooter Williams and the odor of a Bowery cigar entered together. 1924J. Buchan Three Hostages xviii. 263 ‘Hell!’ he cried, with a torrent of Bowery oaths. a1952E. J. Brady in R. Ward Penguin Bk. Austral. Ballads (1964) 185 The Bowery gal she knows 'er know; The Frisco gal is silly.
Hence ˈboweryish a., smacking of the Bowery in New York.
1846Poe Wks. (1864) III. 109 Elevating the tone of this ‘Editor's Table’ (which its best friends are forced to admit is a little Boweryish).
▪ II. bowery, a.|ˈbaʊərɪ|
[f. bower n.1 + -y1.]
Of the nature of a bower; embowering, leafy.
1704Pope Windsor For. 262 Bow'ry mazes and surrounding greens. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 21 Shaded..by wild overgrown shrubs, bowery acacias. 1876M. B. Edwards John & I, xxi. 170 The boweriest part of the garden. |