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单词 un-southern
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un-Southernadj.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈsʌðn/, U.S. /ˌənˈsəðərn/
Forms: also with lower-case initial in the second element.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix1, southern adj.
Etymology: < un- prefix1 + southern adj.
Not southern (in various senses); esp. not characteristic or typical of, or otherwise associated with, the American South or its inhabitants.
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1808 F. Bates Let. 26 Mar. in Rep. Pioneer & Hist. Soc. Michigan (1886) 8 562 Where all unsouthern gentry will bring their negroes, as they cannot take them to the other territories?
1862 T. W. Higginson Army Life (1870) 9 Something so un-Southern, the camp of a regiment of black slaves.
1904 Outlook 9 Apr. 869/1 At first glance these charges seem so extravagant in statement and so unchivalrous and un-Southern in spirit as to deserve no attention.
1939 M. Mitchell Let. 30 Jan. in Gone with the Wind Lett. (1986) 244 A voice with distinctively un-Southern qualities, a New England twang, or a Mid-Western rolling ‘r’ would be out of place in a Southern film.
1954 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 53 263 To illustrate how un-Southern Waiblinger is: He is riding in a carriage through the Roman campagna with an Italian of the upper middle class.
2014 Sunday News (Lancaster, Pa.) (Nexis) 16 Feb. e9 I am sure this is highly un-Southern, but I love to top this cornbread with a spoonful of strawberry jam.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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