Bowery

See also: bowery

English

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Bowery

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 Bowery (surname) on Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaʊəɹi/

Etymology 1

Unexplained. Perhaps a topographic surname for someone who lived in a small cottage, from Middle English bour (“chamber, cottage”) or, alternatively, an occupational surname for someone who worked there.

Alternative forms

• Bowry

Proper noun

Bowery (plural Bowerys)

1. A surname from Middle English.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bowery is the 38850^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 568 individuals. Bowery is most common among White (87.68%) individuals.

Etymology 2

From Dutch bouwerij (“farm”).

Proper noun

the Bowery

1. A street and a district of New York City, whose residents were traditionally of a low socioeconomic class.
   • 1919, Frank L. Packard, chapter 3, in The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale:

     We were seen quarrelling this afternoon in a saloon over on the Bowery.

   • 2017, Stephen Pimpare, Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens, page 227:

     […] sewer people, derelicts, bag ladies, undergrounders, and Bowery bums. Whatever the cause of their illness, as in Scanners, homeless people are victims but, more importantly, a threat to be eliminated.

Derived terms

• Boweryish

Further reading

• “Bowery”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bowery”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 208.

Anagrams

• Bowyer, bowyer