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ˈsouthernism
Also Southernism.
[f. southern a. + -ism.]
1. a. An idiom, expression, or word peculiar to the southern States of America. orig. U.S.
1882Amer. Mission. Apr. 108 Aside from African features.., and some Southernisms in voice and expression. 1886Academy 11 Sept. 174/3 Among words classed as Southernisms, or as having peculiar Southern uses.
b. An idiom, expression, or word peculiar to a more southerly part of Britain, esp. to the South of England.
1967P. J. Bawcutt Shorter Poems of Gavin Douglas p. lxxv, The absence of the southernisms and archaic verbal inflections that are found in Douglas, side by side with the regular Middle Scots forms. 1978Trans. Yorks. Dial. Soc. lxxviii. 9 More definitely attributable to error is the intrusion of Southernisms such as hond for hand, darter for daughter and, grammatically, she for her as object pronoun.
2. The quality of being southern in character.
1861N.Y. Tribune 15 July 6/4 Southernism has raised the standard and gage of social condition absolutely; and those who are so unfortunate as not to be high-born—i.e., born at the South—are given to feel that they must eke out their shortcomings with an extra amount of Southern ardor and Pro-Slavery talk. 1911Q. Reg. Panpresbyt. Ch. Nov. 479 New Orleans has its solid Southernism before, during, and since the war. |