Associations to the word «Gotham»

Wiktionary

GOTHAM, proper noun. Nickname for New York City; Washington Irving gave the name Gotham to New York City in his Salmagundi Papers [1] (1807).
GOTHAM, proper noun. A village in Nottinghamshire, England, associated in folklore with insanity.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats