单词 | britishism |
释义 | Britishismn. 1. A quality regarded as characteristic of British people, Britishness; (as a mass noun) such qualities collectively; (also, esp. in early use) pro-British influence or allegiance. ΚΠ 1853 Debow's Rev. July 2 Abolitionism..that moral disease which festers in the veins of that small portion of the northern people poisoned by Britishism. 1884 Boston Daily Advertiser 9 July 2/1 ‘The Great Republic’ is cleverly written, and despite the spirit of prejudice, retaliation and Britishism that pervades it, merits in many respects the attention of every American reader. 1906 Daily Chron. 20 Oct. 4/4 Americanism yet Britishism, cosmopolitanism but Imperialism. 1915 W. Sanday Meaning of War 80 For the Englishman, Britishism (Britentum) and civilization..are one and the same. 1959 Encounter Dec. 54 Almost all his characteristics were British..sometimes they were Britishisms exaggerated. 1976 B. N. Malzberg Best of Barry N Malzberg 130 This is not a deliberate selection, nor is the strange Britishism of her speech something that I can apprehend. 2. = Briticism n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Britain > state or quality of Britishness1857 Britishism1879 British-hood1883 1879 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 7 Mar. Their compiler was an Englishman and introduced what are called Britishisms. 1886 Cent. Mag. Feb. 631/2 Most foreign books, when now republished here, are ill-made pamphlets, shabby in paper, press-work, and type, and to be described only by the convenient Britishism ‘cheap and nasty’. 1930 Montana Standard 16 Feb. 10/6 The studio has gently suggested that he could drop the Britishisms from his speech. 1992 New Yorker 26 Oct. 54/2 ‘Suss’ means ‘suspect’ or ‘figure out.’ It's one of those Britishisms, like ‘cess’ and ‘fug’, which probably came from centuries of poor enunciation. 2003 Vogue May 282/1 Whether they're made for bob-ha'penny (a Britishism for ‘peanuts’) or not, it makes no odds. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1853 |
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