单词 | rusticism |
释义 | rusticismn. A word, phrase, or pronunciation characteristic of the speech of country people. Cf. rusticity n. 2b, ruralism n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > dialect > [noun] > regional dialects > word or phrase of rusticity1675 rusticism1749 provincialism1770 villagism1772 localism1823 nationalism1823 colonialism1842 ruralism1854 1749 A. Hill Gideon (rev. ed.) i. 55 People, long habituated to a Pronunciation the Reverse of many of those motely Rusticisms. 1776 E. Jones tr. Cicero Orator in tr. Cicero Brutus 351 Formerly it was esteemed an elegancy, though it would now be considered as a rusticism [L. quod iam subrusticum videtur], to omit the s in all words which terminate in us, except when they were followed by a vowel. 1822 C. Lamb Let. 31 Aug. (1935) II. 328 Now and then a home rusticism is fresh and startling, but where nothing is gained in expression, it is out of tenor. 1882 E. W. Gosse in A. B. Grosart Compl. Wks. Spenser III. p. xvi Extravagant and almost laughable rusticisms. 1919 E. M. Delafield Pelicans vi. 69 Leaving it uncertain whether or not she was pitying Morris for his easy appreciation of Cornish rusticisms as rendered by Mrs. Tregaskis. 1960 Compar. Lit. 12 235 The vocabulary, packed with rusticisms as the speech develops, insists on the crudeness of the wooer. 2000 A. L. Sihler Lang. Hist. 87 In the case of touchy ‘easily angered’, the original form te(t)chy survives but has been reinterpreted as a rusticism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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