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Anglo-ˈSaxonism
[f. Anglo-Saxon + -ism.]
1. Anything peculiar to the Anglo-Saxon race.
2. esp. A word, phrase, idiom, or habit of speech, belonging to, or derived from, the Old English, unaffected by Romanic or other foreign admixture.
3. The sentiment of being ‘Anglo-Saxon’ (in sense III.) or English ethnologically; a belief in the superiority or claims of the ‘Anglo-Saxon’ race.
1860Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. Part. III. cxli. 121 The zeal for Anglo-Saxonism, will be found to be little but rogue calling upon rogue. 1867Bagehot Physics & Pol. (1876) 36 In America and in Australia a new modification of what we call Anglo-Saxonism is growing.
▸ orig. U.S. A word that is regarded as vulgar, considered (esp. humorously) to be of traditional Anglo-Saxon origin, with allusion to the idea of an earlier, uncomplicated era of language and culture; a swear word. Cf. Anglo-Saxon adj. 2b.
1944Brainerd (Minnesota) Daily Dispatch 29 Aug. 4/4 Lads who never said ‘darn’ will interlard their talk with rugged Anglo-Saxonisms. 1978Washington Post 6 Aug. k4/4 Frustrated print journalists, barred..from employing the One True Anglo-Saxonism applicable, all too eagerly regressed to such puerile euphemisms as ‘poop’ and ‘doo’. 2006Observer (Nexis) 2 July 19 There was nothing scientific about the names Mac had for him. Just good-old Anglo-Saxonisms of quadruple letters. |