Hymietown

English

Etymology

From Hymie +‎ town, in reference to the city's large Jewish population.

Proper noun

Hymietown

1. (derogatory) New York City.
   • 1988 March 11, Don Wycliff, “The Editorial Notebook; The New Jesse Jackson”, in New York Times‎^[1], A, page 34:

     In campaign speeches, he has called on interest groups that seem to have nothing in common to find common ground. He has been guarded in talking to the press - no doubt remembering the grief that the Hymietown remark brought him during the 1984 campaign.