Brooklynite
Noun
Meaning
Brooklynite (plural Brooklynites)
A native or inhabitant of Brooklyn, New York.
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Side one track one, “Sunday Morning”, is a wistful ballad fit for a cool European chanteuse sung by a surly Brooklynite.
Eleven-year-old Brooklynite Genie has "worry issues," so when he and his older brother, Ernie, are sent to Virginia to spend a month with their estranged grandparents while their parents "try to figure it all out," he goes into overdrive.
Eleven-year-old Brooklynite Genie has “worry issues,” so when he and his older brother, Ernie, are sent to Virginia to spend a month with their estranged grandparents while their parents “try to figure it all out,” he goes into overdrive.
I’m either getting myself used to the idea of all of this ending catastrophically, because most relationships don’t last, or getting swept up in nauseatingly quaint daydreams of domesticity for the 20-something-year-old Brooklynite.
Brooklyn Phil, you are definitely a Brooklynite.
Christopher Beemer, a 75-year-old Brooklynite, is impressed with how well his wife, Carol, maintains friendships with other women and wonders why this valuable benefit to health and longevity “doesn’t come so easily to men.”