Fall Reeve
English
Etymology
Apparently a pronunciation spelling based on the speech of Portuguese immigrants.
Proper noun
Fall Reeve
- (informal) A nickname for Fall River, Massachusetts.
- Coordinate term: New Beige
- 1956, David Patten, Three Sides to the Sea: Memories of a Scunnet Childhood, Rinehart, LCCN 56008876, OCLC 1523324, 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 1124387787, 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 2001012345, OCLC 854759032:
- I don’t know what he ever saw in this little chick from Fall Reeve. You never know!
Alternative forms
- Fall Reev