newsy
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -uːzi
Adjective
editnewsy (comparative newsier, superlative newsiest)
- Containing lots of news; informative.
- Chatty, gossipy.
Noun
editnewsy (plural newsies)
- (informal) A distributor of news; a newsagent.
- (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', […]