Nuyorican

Blend of New York +‎ Puerto Rican (adjective, noun), possibly influenced by Spanish neoyorquino (“New Yorker”)^[1] or Nu(eva) Yor(k) (“New York”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˌnjuːjəˈɹiːkn̩/

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• IPA^(key): /ˌn(j)ujəˈɹik(ə)n/

• Audio (General American); /ˌnjujəˈɹikən/:

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• Rhymes: -iːkən
• Hyphenation: Nu‧yor‧ic‧an

Nuyorican (not comparable)

1. (originally and chiefly US, informal) Of or relating to New Yorkers of Puerto Rican descent.
   • 1993, Ilan Stavans, “Foreword”, in Harold Augenbraum, Ilan Stavans, editors, Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories (A Marc Jaffe Book), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page xii:

     English-speaking Nuyorican, Chicano, and Cuban writers know two verbs for to be and to know, and are obsessed with the past.

   • 2009 April 3, Garth Cartwright, “Joe Cuba: Musician crowned ‘king of Latin Boogaloo’”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 March 2016:

     He [Joe Cuba] was an icon to New York's Puerto Rican community and can be considered a pioneer of "nuyorican" (New York Puerto Rican) culture.

• Newyorican, nuyorican

• Neorican

• Rican

Nuyorican (plural Nuyoricans)

1. (originally and chiefly US, informal) A New Yorker of Puerto Rican descent.
   • 1976 May 14, David Vidal, “‘Nuyoricans’ express pain and Joy in poetry”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 November 2024, page 29, column 4:

     There are about 40 young men and women, largely second‐ and third-generation Puerto Rican New Yorkers who call themselves "Nuyoricans," in the crowded storefront cafe at 505 East Sixth Street, on the Lower East Side. Some are poets, some are listeners.

   • 1995, Peter Manuel, “Latin Music in the New World Order: Salsa & Beyond”, in Ron Sakolsky, Fred Wei-han Ho, editors, Sounding Off!: Music As Subversion/Resistance/Revolution, Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.: Autonomedia, →ISBN, page 277:

     But the decade's spirit of questioning and mobilization also took hold among minorities, including New York City's more than three million Latinos—primarily Puerto Ricans, or "Newyoricans." […] In the wake of the Black Panthers, the Young Lords mobilized Newyoricans to demand fair treatment and better social services.

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• Neorican
• New Yorker
• New Yorkian

• Rican

Nuyorican

1. (originally and chiefly US, informal) The variety of Spanish spoken by New Yorkers of Puerto Rican descent.
   • 1991, Miguel Algarín, “[Poets’ Sampler] Christmas Eve: Nuyorican Café”, in Faythe Turner, editor, Puerto Rican Writers at Home in the USA: An Anthology, Seattle, Wash.: Open Hand Publishing, →ISBN, page 20:

     jesus is born speaking Nuyorican / eating tortillas con salchichas / to the rhythms of winter hot / conga drums that / lament an ice cold Christmas / that slips away under a slight / blanket of Christmas snow.

   • 1997, K. J. A. Wishnia, chapter 2, in 23 Shades of Black, New York, N.Y.: Signet, Penguin Group, →ISBN, pages 48–49:

     And suddenly I became the interpreter for people who never realized my Andean mestizo Spanish was not always enough to relate to people who grew up on East 116th Street speaking Nuyorican.

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