boroughhood

boroughhood

English

Etymology

borough +‎ -hood

Noun

boroughhood (uncountable)

1. The state of being a borough
   • 1850, Catherine Grace Frances, The Hamiltons, or, Official life in 1830, page 353:

     In the days of its close boroughhood, it had owned but one mind, and that a little one ; it had now a thousand ; and each, in its own conceit, gigantic.

   • 1922, George Thornton Flemming, History of Pittsburgh and its Environs, page 348:

     The Gazette began before boroughhood and has continued along successive decades.

   • 1988 April, the Editor, Spy Magazine, page 23

     Hmm, 'Park Slope, New York' again. That's two votes for Park Slope boroughhood. Message to residents of Cobble Hill, New York: get with it!