countyismn.
/ˈkaʊntɪɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈkaʊn(t)iˌɪz(ə)m/ 1. U.S. A linguistic feature peculiar to a particular county.In later use only with preceding name specifying the county.
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the mind > language > a language > dialect > [noun] > regional dialects
Doricism1698
Dorism1698
provincialism1770
cant1802
Patavinitya1814
countyism1839
regionalism1930
1839 Lady's Bk. July 27/2 We might not wonder at a countryism, or a countyism, here and there slipped into the compositions..of one of these writers.
1964 Symposium Winter 333 The hygiene of their speech is no better than that of their bodies, M'liss letting out strings of Pike-Countyisms.
1998 T. Wolfe Man in Full xii. 279 He had cut off his usual torrent of orotund rhetoric mixed with Baker Countyisms.
2. Esp. with reference to Ireland and Irish-American communities: attachment or loyalty to one's own county, its institutions, interests, etc., esp. as considered more important than those of the nation or state of which it is a part. Now chiefly historical.
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1847 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 14 118 The sentiment of nationalism is very good; so also is that of ‘countyism.’
1894 Irish World & Amer. Industr. Liberator 3 Nov. 4/3 The far-reaching effects of..countyism and faction fighting have not wholly disappeared.
1922 Irish Independent 19 Jan. 6/8 With an association of this kind the old myths of countyism and provincialism would disappear for ever.
1981 J. Kehl Boss Rule in Gilded Age ii. 21 Regionalism bordering on countyism was the common denominator of political wisdom.
1999 D. R. Roediger Wages of Whiteness (rev. ed.) vii. 147 Given the strength of ‘countyism’ in Ireland and the patterns of intra-Irish factional fighting for canal-building jobs in the 1830s, [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1839