Brooklynese

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The distinctive accent and slang traditionally spoken by people from the New York City borough of Brooklyn
2. A regional form of American English, with its own pronunciation and vocabulary, associated with the Brooklyn area of New York
3. The colloquial speech patterns and idioms characteristic of residents of Brooklyn, New York City

Etymology: "Brooklynese" is a compound of "Brooklyn," the New York City borough, and the suffix "-ese," which English uses to name a language or dialect, as in "Japanese" or "Chinese," and by extension a distinctive way of speaking associated with a particular place or group. Attaching "-ese" to a place name produces a label for that place's speech, so the word simply means the dialect of Brooklyn. The suffix carries its own history. It comes from Old French "-eis" and Latin "-ensis," the adjectival ending meaning "of or belonging to" a place, which is why it turns country and city names into words for their people and tongues. English applied it freely to city and regional names, and the same pattern gave us "Maltese," "Cantonese," and "Londonese."