Apple-polisher

[Mark A Mandel]

On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Arnold Zwicky wrote:

#my own usage is much more restricted than any of the meanings listed
#in DARE: an (exaggeratedly) rural person *from upstate new york*.  or,
#by extension, anyone from upstate [new york].  probably because i
#heard the expression only from new yorkers (meaning people from nyc).

Exactly the same here. I grew up in NYC in the 60s.

-- Mark A. Mandel