Poughkeepsie

English

Etymology

From a word in Wappinger Munsee, roughly U-puku-ipi-sing (“the reed-covered lodge by the little-water place”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pəˈkɪpsi/
  • Rhymes: -ɪpsi

Proper noun

Poughkeepsie

  1. A city, the county seat of Dutchess County, New York, United States.
    • 1994 October 30, Penny Singer, “Bob Detmer, a Visionary Video Maker”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 April 2022:
      Back in the days when Poughkeepsie was a company town and the company was International Business Machines, it wasn't unusual for 18-year-olds in Poughkeepsie to go straight from high school to I.B.M.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Paul Joffe (2008), Where'e Poughkeepsie? Finding The Lost Spring‎[1]
  2. ^ “Poughkeepsie”, in Encyclopædia Britannica Online, Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2012
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