Hymietown
English
editEtymology
editFrom Hymie + town, in reference to the city's large Jewish population.
Proper noun
editHymietown
- (derogatory) New York City.
- 1988 March 11, Don Wycliff, “The Editorial Notebook; The New Jesse Jackson”, in New York Times[1], A, page 34:
- In campaign speeches, he has called on interest groups that seem to have nothing in common to find common ground. He has been guarded in talking to the press - no doubt remembering the grief that the Hymietown remark brought him during the 1984 campaign.