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southernism

noun

Etymology

From southern + -ism.

  1. derived from *sunþrōnijaz✻
  2. derived from sūþerne
  3. derived from southerne
  4. suffixed as southernism — “southern + ism”

Definitions

  1. Anything characteristic of the southern part of a region, especially the southern United…

    Anything characteristic of the southern part of a region, especially the southern United States.

    • It is one of the national peccadilloes that anyone who lives north of St. Albans has some kind of prejudice against Londoners — perhaps "prejudice" is the wrong word — or rather not against Londoners but against southernism.

  2. A word or phrase (a dialectism) from Southern American English.

    • I loved his languid, Southern speech and little southernisms, like "you can't put a sequin on a rat's ass."
    • Many are known southernisms in the sense that they are also cited in sources such as Dictionary of American Regional English (henceforth, DARE) or Carver (1987).

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for southernism. 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