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, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley