Citations:hyphenate

Adjective?

Semantics

• 1939, Abraham Chapman, Nazi Penetration in America, page 18:

  This event which in its way closely parallels the Nazi drive for a State Church in Germany, marks a step towards that unification of German-American groups by which the Nazis ultimately hope to create a hyphenate political bloc in this country.

• 1989, Daniel J. Casey, Robert E. Rhodes, Modern Irish-American Fiction: A Reader, page 217:

  He was the first of several men who introduced her to Irish society, a process that sorely tested her hyphenate identity.

• 2000, Christon I. Archer, The Wars of Independence in Spanish America, page xii:

  Their opponents — the royalists in Spanish America - in defense of the existing regime were quick to describe them as common bandits, terrorists, murderers, robbers, and thugs. We can speak of hyphenate people called guerrilla-bandits or insurgent-bandits who sometimes lost connections with major political causes espoused by the patriot leadership.

• 2002, Peter X. Feng, Screening Asian Americans, page 202:

  Jo asserts that the identity crisis is never over (that hyphenate people like Steve as well as Chan are always becoming), to which Steve replies that everybody has their roles in "the game."

• 2019, Elisabeth H. Kinsley, Here in This Island We Arrived: Shakespeare and Belonging in Immigrant New York:

  Assimilated Jews in the United States, who couched their Jewish American identity in an Anglo-American habitus, feared that this new group of foreign-born Jews in downtown Manhattan would call attention to an alien element of Jewishness - one that might overwhelm the "American" (and therein the American whiteness) in the hyphenate identity that old-immigrant Jews had constructed over several decades.

Syntax

• 1974, Marshall Sklare, The Jew in American Society, page 287:

  In the United States today, of course, almost all Jews, even the most Orthodox and practicing among them, have become hyphenate in Veblen's sense

• 2004, David E. Wellbery, Judith Ryan, A New History of German Literature, page 602:

  Because German-American literature does not exist in the kind of cultural isolation for which Der Amerika-Müde yearned, but implies in its very hyphenate adjective that it is part of an interaction, some works may have a unique ability to record manners ironically […] .

• 2021, Monica Nelson, Edible Flowers: How, Why, and When We Eat Flowers, page 258:

  Adrianna and I wanted to make something that felt hyphenate: historical-readable-beautiful-immersive, with flowers that are not photographed "cheesy" and with text that gives just enough to rouse your curiosity.