Contextualizebeta

blaccent

noun
/ˈblak.sənt/UK/ˈblæk.sɛnt/CA

Etymology

Blend of black + accent.

  1. derived from accentus
  2. derived from accent
  3. derived from accentus
  4. inherited from accent
  5. compounded as blaccent — “black + accent”

Definitions

  1. An accent characteristic of African-Americans (black Americans).

    • He's black, but doesn't have a trace of a blaccent.
    • Timberlake has long sought to overcome his whiteness to perfect a "blaccent", as the kids call it these days, and the McDonald's ad campaign explicitly relies on a hiphop idiom.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for blaccent. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA