New Yawk

English

Alternative forms

• Noo Yawk, Nu Yawk, N'Yawk

Proper noun

New Yawk

1. Pronunciation spelling of New York, representing New York City English.
   • 1987, Tom Wolfe, “The Favor Bank”, in The Bonfire of the Vanities, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, →ISBN, page 384:

     “Well, everything in this building, everything in the criminal justice system in New York”—New Yawk—“operates on favors. […]