Fall Reeve

English

Etymology

Apparently a pronunciation spelling based on the speech of Portuguese immigrants.

Proper noun

Fall Reeve

1. (informal) Nickname for Fall River: a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States.

   Coordinate term: New Beige

   • 1956, David Patten, Three Sides to the Sea: Memories of a Scunnet Childhood‎, Rinehart, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 68:

     My mother bake the massa sovadas, the sweetbreads. Much vinho tinto, some aguardente that maka the old folks have dreams. The band, she come from Fall Reeve; the young folks, they danca.

   • 2000 June 2, tejas, “The JaneSoc of Snod”, in rec.arts.books‎ (Usenet):

     > Tangentially, I don't know anything about the derivation of "hoagie."
     > Anyone?
     I'd ask Emeril. He's from Fall Reeve.

   • 2002 May 27, Skeets, “Transcript Vicente Fox on Hannity and Colmes”, in alt.politics.immigration‎ (Usenet):

     They are not illegal,they are not illegal? (I guess they're like the
     Rhode Islanders who come to work in Connecticut from [Fall Reeve] and
     [Proavidence] LOL).

   • 2003 August 15, Anne, “Did any of y'all lose power today?”, in alt.rhode_island‎ (Usenet):

     After Hurricane Gloria, we had no well water (no pump running, or anything
     else) for nearly a week. We bought bottled water to drink, and paid the
     day rate at a hotel in Fall Reeve to take showers.

   • 2004 August 4, A, “alt.rhode-island does milk.”, in alt.rhode_island‎ (Usenet):

     I useta get that reaction when we lived in Little Compton and I was
     working here in Providence. Down there on the peninsula, going all the
     way <snort> to Fall Reeve to buy some Bronhard's kielbasa was the big
     thrill. ;-)

   • 2012 November 6, Hollie Delaney, Lessons: Author's Cut‎, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 71:

     It had been years since I had driven around ‘Fall Reev’ as it's known. Honestly, I avoided Fall River like the plague.

   • 2013, Remembering Adamsville‎, Little Compton Historical Society, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:

     I don’t know what he ever saw in this little chick from Fall Reeve. You never know!

Alternative forms

• Fall Reev