Definition of "Novy"

"Shrimp! Gloucester shrimp! Git aout[sic], you Novy!"To call a Gloucester man a Nova Scotian is not well received. Dan answered in kind.

1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897