A dated American dialectal spelling/pronunciation variant for Philadelphia. This kind of phonetic reduction is common in fast, casual American speech where syllables get swallowed. Primarily encountered in historical texts and dialect writing from the 18th and 19th centuries.
He'd grown up not far from Philadelphy before heading west.
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(US, dialect, dated) Philadelphia .
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