newsy

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English

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Etymology

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From news +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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newsy (comparative newsier, superlative newsiest)

  1. Containing lots of news; informative.
  2. Chatty, gossipy.

Noun

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newsy (plural newsies)

  1. (informal) A distributor of news; a newsagent.
  2. (informal) A journalist.
    • 2006, Stuart Allan, Online News: Journalism And The Internet, page 61:
      Taken together, these websites resembled something of a first-person news network, a collective form of collaborative news-gathering. Ordinary people were transforming into 'amateur newsies', []

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